Meeting notes: April 11
To do:
- Nicole talk to Nina/Beth about cataloging records for them (and processing, labels, etc.),
also is the loan period 1 week? if so, let's keep that the same
- Stephanie: look into secure location, what is normal replacement fee?
- Nicole: make checklist for quarterly maintenance & train UX staff
- Nicole: make card insert for each device: URL for help, what's on it (public domain), hooked up to MIT Libraries account and don't change)
- Stephanie: draft blog story, think about when to Twitter, etc., draft message for all-lib about it
- evaluating the program: Dec. 1, 2011 (but if new device comes out before then, consider adding one)
- check in with each other about the above tasks: Thurs. April 21
Agenda for Monday, April 11, 3 - 4 pm
(Lisa S., Stephanie, Nicole)
1. Updates:
- got OK from Ellen on legal issues
- the devices are here (2 new Kindles, 2 Color Nooks)
- public domain content
- old laptop loan program has been retired
2. To do:
- update Barton records: Nicole talk to Nina/Beth
- is same secure location still OK?
- make a list of maintenance tasks for UX staff to do once a month
- train UX staff on maintenance tasks
- create tips/instructions for each device, attach to each one
- communicate with staff
- marketing plan for public (blog, etc.)
Meeting notes: March 2, 2011
- Nicole to meet with Ellen next week about legal issues
- retire the 3 old Kindles
- get 2 Kindle 3's and 2 color Nooks
- 1 week loan period
- loan them out of Hayden only, for now
- put the same content on each device (to simplify things)
- put only public domain content on them
- desk staff won't be responsible for charging or other maintenance
- UX staff will perform periodic maintenance (put on hold for themselves about once a month)
- make list of maintenance tasks: charging, software updates, verifying still connected to right account, verifying right content still there
- attach a list of a few tips/instructions to the back of each device (attached so it won't get lost)
- need to update the Barton records for these: Nicole to talk to Nina/Beth
- use same secure location that previous Kindles were stored in
- Nicole to check with CQ and then email Pam about ending laptop loan program and retiring old laptops
- communicate with staff so everyone knows what's going on with these
- marketing plan, blog story, etc.
- have a completely different program for iPad loans... perhaps staying with only from the Music Library for now, since they have experience and it's easier to manage out of one library
- Stephanie to schedule next meeting in early April for Lisa H., Nicole, Stephanie to move forward with this
Meeting notes: Subgroup met in early November, 2010.
Stephanie, Nicole, Lisa H., Lisa S.
- why do we want to loan?
- learning opportunities for users about devices
- getting feedback from our users about their needs (community testbed)
- they could actually use it for academic work
- students like it (shows we are up on technologies )
- which devices and how many?
- maybe 2 existing Kindle 2s & 1 new Kindle 3 (retire oldest one)
- 1 or 2 ipads
- 1 or 2 Nooks (new color one)
- staff vs public
- still need to discuss sharing among staff
- staff impact and security
- consider loaning out of 1 library only at first (Rotch?). Fewer staff to train. Rotch already has experience with GPS units.
- need some kind of secure storage
- these cost less than laptops we've loaned
- procedures and policy
- need to work out together with someone from IDLA
- alternative ways to get input from users
- idea: do a study where we interview students who use ipads for a few weeks to do specific academic work. Then do in depth interviews.
- do something for IAP about ebooks and reading prefs
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