1. Minutes for this meeting (Keene's turn, according to the schedule). Minutes from May & June meetings need to be completed & sent to Michael for posting on the PCAC site. (5 min.)
   
   
2. Announcements & news (all, 10 min.)
   
   
3. PCAC membership discussion (Michael, 20 min.)
   
   Some of our members are due to rotate off the committee. I'd like us to consider what makes for a good unit representative for our committee, and if we would like to recommend to PSEC that members have the option to stay on the committee from year to year if they so choose. Expertise in (and advocacy for) public computing is a scarce thing in most units & if our members must rotate off each year we'll have a hard time keeping the committee going over time due to the lack of people throughout CUL in these roles. Ideally, our committee is a place where individuals with a committment to public computing can work on issues that sometimes span several semesters (if not years). We need to work quickly on this since we're already in a new academic year.
   
   
4. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and its impact on CUL (Michael, 30 min) 
   
   This regards the email I forwarded the list from the ARL Directors list regarding desktop authentication of library users to meet Federal legislation requirements. What thoughts and/or comments do we as a group have about desktop authentication under these circumstances? This is clearly something that upper level administration in CUL, CIT, OIT, etc. are (hopefully) discussing, and as we are at ground zero with the issue we should be, too.
   
   
5. ARL Spec Kit survey on the management of public computing (Michael, 25 min.)

I'm developing a survey that ARL will administer to its libraries later this year or sometime next year, and the focus is on the management of public computing in research libraries. I want to design this survey in such a way that it asks questions relevant to issues that library administrators face in relation to public computing (policies, funding, staffing, partnerships, etc.)

My question to PCAC is: If you had to answer a survey like this, what would you consider to be the most important information  you could share with other ARL libraries?  I'd like to know what kinds of questions you would like to see on a survey on these kind of topics. One topic I definitely intend to include is desktop authentication, which we are already discussing today and was the topic of a recent survey by Ken Frazier (at UW-Madison). Other topics on the management of public computing? Think of your top five and bring them to the meeting!