9-7-2014

Howard, Camille, Gabrielle, Jim, Nick

• Tobi at Penn State for Van Tienhoven
• Sara at Admin Council retreat 

Planning for the next year

Discussed potential projects/ideas to focus on for upcoming year. First reviewed compiled list from Sara.

1. 2nd floor tech desk
   1. Howard: don't have the budget right now but perhaps next year?
      - roughly $40k to get the desk going
   2. Gabriel: PTAC is also investigating maker's space
   3. Sara had suggested doing patron assessment of what's needed/wanted for this space
2. Digital Signage
   1. Jim: example of interactive display?
      - Nick: Camille might have a better idea based on her trip with Sara
   2. Camille: Steelcase touch screen for study room reservations
      - media wall at Duke
   3. Howard: getting research efforts out in our digital space
      - both Comm and Dyson are interested in the interactive displays
   4. Howard: way finding, as Sara mentioned
   5. Camille: also being able to push our digital collections out
   6. Jim: holograms
   7. Nick: So no clear cut priority or use case in this area
      - Camille: yes, we would need to define the use cases better and which ones do we have in common with Comm and Dyson?
      - Gabriel: For me, the promotion/display of student work is most intriguing
        * Howard: I'm with Gabriel, if you pinned me down, I'd be all for showcasing student work
        * we should take a look at Duke's media wall
      - Howard: way finding is still really interesting to me
        * a lot of people asking about gallery, bathrooms
        * Gabriel: can we integrate with Siri?
   8. Nick: any known problem areas?
      - Camille: from the ref desk, definitely the bathrooms and B30A/B; also printing
      - Howard: but also more promotion for events
        * right now only in the lobby
        * would be nice to have them scattered throughout the library as well
3. Suma
   1. Howard: repeat button
      - had to go through the same steps 19 times earlier today
   2. Jim: yes, or a favorites/common activity
   3. Howard: Suma is really important, we can continue to justify our services based on usage data
   4. Nick: what other features? how is it working out on the data analysis side?
      - Camille: Sara and Tobi are much more familiar with this but it has been somewhat difficult
   5. Nick: it would be useful for me to shadow one/several of you next week while I'm in town
      - would love to be able to get the data visualized in real-time/or as close as possible
   6. Jim: one funky thing when you're counting
      - counting a person as a single entity
      - all of a sudden you realize that another person joins them, there's no way to increase the size of the group (from 1 -> 2-4)
4. Salesforce and Chatter
   1. Camille: Salesforce is a CRM that CALS is using
      - Chatter is their Yammer equiv
      - CALS is using this for primary communication channel
      - can broadcast to all CALS students
      - rolling it out as we speak (went live during orientation)
   2. Gabriel: how would we use this?
      - Camille: joining to use it as a channel of communication
        * targeting particular audiences
        * asking questions for assessment
        * recruit students
   3. Gabriel: who's the point person to have access to Chatter from this group?
   4. Nick: if it does gain traction and they have an API we can use, we might want to integrate their data into our digital signage, etc.
   5. Camille: it's supposed to roll out to some other colleges beyond CALS down the road
5. Furniture Assessment (after spring break)
   1. Howard: week of March 30th it's all getting installed
      - so we have some time for this but this is important and we definitely want to address this
6. Bissett upgrade - faster switching technology
   1. - Gabriel: Matt may have some ideas on options for this
7. Software List
   1. Gabriel: is this in our wheelhouse or Mann website committee?
   2. Camille: was she (Sara) referring to the MapIt site or software list on Mann website?
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8. Howard: Reservation system?
   1. is this us or happening elsewhere
9. Camille: Administration side of house
   1. cleanup the wiki
   2. housekeeping of Box acct
10. Gabriel: I don't feel like there are as many learning technologies agenda items here
    1. I know it's bit broad
    2. feel like we've shied away from this original focus and have become more of a furniture/space assessment group
    3. so maybe we add some items with learning technology focus to the agenda or maybe we reconsider a name change?
    4. maybe re-evaluate some of our previous projects concerning public computing technology
    5. more power stations
11. Howard: Matt is coming on in October
    1. Nick: should he be part of this group?