Friday 1/14/2011 in Mann 202A

Present: Camille Andrews, Joy Paulson, Matt Ryan, John Fereira, Gabriel Plaine

Absent: Angela Morse, Jim Morris-Knower

Agenda:

Updates and announcements

Ereader committee integration, mobile devices and Career Development workshop

Mobile Device Issues to consider/explore

Short-term

• Mid-March (week before spring break?) workshop: preliminary topic: what libraries can do with mobile devices (besides ereader/ebooks); overview and discussion/tech playtime
• Mobile device borrowing for Mann staff (policies, new devices, instructions on wiping devices) in place by mid-March workshop
  • Sony-Joy; iPad-Gabriel; Kindle-Camille upcoming devices/tablets-John F)
  • February meeting -draft of that info and work out policies
  • Camille will send questions to answer and tips 
• Survey of landscape: John F., Joy and Gabriel and others mentioned several upcoming devices and

• Joy will talk to Marty about $ for ALA TechSource workshop on integrating ebooks and ereaders into library; Camille will send email asking collection development about interest in co-sponsorship to Joy for reference
• Camille will ask Mary about  money for Handheld Librarian 4 Feb 23 and 24th

Continuing issues to explore (longer term):

• Possible tech borrowing program from vendors--ask commercial vendors (Apple, Motorola, Amazon, Samsung, Nook, etc) if they would be willing to lend us devices for testing so that we don't have to buy every new device. Gabriel will check with existing Apple contacts about this.
• Clearinghouse of information for new devices, content and developments
• Content-buying and creation; what can you get where; what works on which platforms?
• Software-what formats and apps available across what platforms. Maintenance and expansion of wiki page on ereaders: https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/mannltc/E-readers
• Policy and law-rules for lending devices to wider population if we decide to go that route, ADA compliance, etc
  

-Whiteboard research request

Elly Cramer is interested in collaborative whiteboard technology. Camille sent preliminary info gathered by team and she will check with ViVO team about more specific requirements and get back to us with details

Preliminary progress on recommendations for Bissett Space

-From last meeting's minutes (https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/mannltc/10-12): By next meeting in January, do research on key problem areas for Bissett (noise (Matt), lighting (Jim), furniture (Angela), availability of laptop computers (Gabriel)) and for fully implementing mobile device circulation amongst staff (Camille) in order to make purchase recommendations for Bissett and mobile lending by early spring. Camille will also check into funding processes and available amounts. Research can be posted at https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/mannltc/Purchase+recs+research

Jim has submitted information; Camille, Angela, Matt are in progress. Draft recs by Feb. 4 and discussion in Feb. 17th meeting

User studies

For our upcoming user studies to figure out what students need for collaborative work, Kathy Chiang suggested working with the Usability group (and contacting LIbrary Outside the Library). Camille will send the questions we need to answer to submit a study request and add discussion of this to the agenda for Feb. meeting. Camille will also contact LOL about their interest

Other business