Attending:  M. Cook (co-chair), O. Habicht (co-chair), L. Heisey, K. Silfer, M. Morris, P. Viele, P. Court, S. Cohen (note-taker)

1.  We reviewed the minutes from the last meeting. Oliver will make the last edits to the draft Cornell Library Public Computing Policies and forward to the parties agreed upon at last meeting.  No clear pattern has emerged regarding the reported paper jams in the Xerox printers.

2.   December Meeting.  Tentatively scheduled for December 6, 2-3:30pm at the Law School Room 276 (plan to use computer and projection during discussion).  The agenda for this meeting will include: “Finding Equipment” page on the Library Gateway; OCS inventory software and Cybrarian; other ideas for collaborating with CIT for equipment/software inventory.

3.  There was a proposal for PCAC to organize a forum for public services staff.  A tentative date/time/location was set for February 7^th, 9:30am, 106 Olin.   Ideally, we would have some kind of demonstration(s)/request for feedback lined up in addition to making clear PCAC’s role and asking for suggestions for topics that the committee should be addressing.

4.  Michael Cook told the committee that he is interested in working on an ARL SPEC Kit, focusing on public computing in libraries.  This is in the preliminary stages, and he is hoping that the work PCAC does could help inform the kind of information that would be useful in such a publication.  A question about how the new Assessment committee might be able to assist with any survey/number crunching work was raised.

5.  The Campus-wide Guest ID group is currently dormant.  Guest ID on Blackboard has been implemented.  There was a clarification that “Guest Access” to Red Rover is different than Guest ID.  Related to this, CIT has been considering for awhile the idea of restricting CIT lab computers to Cornell users only (i.e. requiring login), but there are no known plans to move forward with this right now.

6.  Some CUL(E) computers have restrictions on e-mail use (Cornell e-mail is blocked) in an effort to reduce contention for library computers and ensure that catalog/database lookups are not prevented by people parked in their e-mail accounts.  In the past, other e-mail providers were also blocked (e.g. Yahoo), but it is becoming very time consuming and difficult to try to block commercial e-mail accounts.  The question was raised about the cost/benefit of continuing trying to block non-Cornell e-mail services.  The recommendation was to continue blocking Cornell e-mail but to stop maintaining the blocks on the others.  The “no e-mail” signs will remain on the workstations.

7.  Olin Library now has a computer outfitted with Assistive Technology.  It is located behind the Reference desk in the Electronic Text area and it is staff-mediated.  This was paid for by CIT and supported by the Cornell Student Disability Services (SDS) office.