Michael introduced new members Nan Hyland (of ERC and Mann Library) and Holly Mistlebauer (of Mann ITS/Public Services); Oliver introduced Laura Heisey (of Desktop Services, Olin)

Michael suggested, and it was agreed upon, that minute taking will be rotated alphabetically. The schedule is as follows (month/year):

Michael Cook: 12/04; Pat Court: 01/05; Oliver Habicht: 02/05; Philip Halcomb: 03/05; Laura Heisey: 04/05; Nan Hyland: 05/05; Deb Lamb-Deans: 06/05; Rick Lightbody: 07/05; Paul McMillin: 08/05; Holly Mistlebauer: 09/05; Keene Silfer: 10/05; Pat Viele: 11/05; Aaron Wade: 12/05.

Meetings will recur monthly for the Spring semester. By summer the group will decide if there needs to be more or fewer meetings, depending on the amount of online communication and other factors. Michael will schedule meetings; the next meeting will be scheduled in the second week of January.

There is now less pressure to get this going quickly than there was earlier, but something will probably begin as a test in the Spring. Patrons without a Cornell affiliation can get wireless access without authentication by logging onto C-Spot. Although C-Spot works in tandem with RedRover, it will not be available everywhere that RedRover is found.

NetID users will keep using RedRover. A possible problem could involve new students using laptops and accidentally ending up on the C-Spot network instead of RedRover Oliver will check into ways in which this can be avoided, such as a click-through page, splash screen, etc. to give the user more information on which wireless network to pick.

Other concerns: open relays have been a problem for CUL; this could be a problem on C-Spots if not controlled. CUL needs to think about this and other issues before taking on the responsibility of this kind of networking.

Oliver suggested we profile each library's public computing over the coming months so that everyone gets a better sense of what is going on, how its done, who's doing what, etc. Pat Court described the environment at the Law Library. As the discussion progressed it became clear that some kind of agreed-upon survey of each unit's environment would need to be established.

What is the number of public services staff who engage with patrons using the Library's public computers? (At Law: 12)

What is the number of IT staff who engage with the Library's public computing? (At Law: 3 from Desktop Services, 3 from the Law Library, 3 from Law's IT department)

Survey of Unit Functionality. These are areas that should be described for each unit:

Main topics to be described:

What version(s) of software should be offered on library public computers? When do we follow CIT's (or others) lead on software versions, and why? (Note: There was not enough time for this discussion, so it was tabled until the next meeting.)

Pat Washburn of CIT started a Public Computing Roundtable SIG which has met a few times already. Web page at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/labs/publiccomputing/; mailing list is CU-LabAdmin-L (Michael & Oliver strongly encourage PCAC members to join the list). The next meeting will be Wednesday, January 12, 2005 in G-10 Biotechnology Building from 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm.