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
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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