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2. N42 Front Desk has been used for equipment checkout and checkin but it's unsecure drop-off and check-in.  ---> MOVE ASSETS to a more secure place, such as Building 26, an IS&T space that is quite secure and actually more central to the students on campus, albeit not really "staffed" and thus appointments would be necessary.

Wiki Markup3. Academic Computing / OEIT have a loose but important oversight on the administration of loan requests.    John Kane \ [sp?\] of  of OEIT wants to re-engineer the program.  

4. Current pool of PCs is old and is wearng out.

5. Check out process wants to be improved with a Bar Code reader and student ID swiper, to create a quick connection between the computer and the student receiving it.  John Guy helps Ryan during the bulk checkout process, where a big pile of laptops is brought to a class session where they are all handed out.  ---> the Admin Desktop process is a successful example of asset management using the bar code reader idea.  The Admin Desktop program involves a newly rewritten Filemaker DB of some kind.

Wiki Markup6. Expansion of the loaner pool?    Anne says there is a funding model that drives it.  \  [where is it documented? \ -\- ed.\]

7. Cost Recovery possible from the conferences and other non-academic uses.

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