OSL Minutes: LIT Committee, March 6, 2008

Lincoln Public Library

In attendance: Barrette, Mike (JOH), Chaichin Chen (OLIS), Lisa Davis (OSL), Celeste Dyer (CUM), Miguel DeFaria (CFA), Prudence Fallon (TIV), Sharon Fredette (WAR), Christie Getches (SKI), Joan Gillespie (OSL), Ray Hetherington (GVL), Paul Holliday (CRA), Deborah Homer (JAM), Christine Jeffers (PAW), Georgene Luttmann (COV), Susan Moreland (NKI), Rick Payette (OSL), Lil Ricci (WAR), Melanie Ruggieri (LIN).

I.                   Call to order – Susan Moreland called the meeting to order at 9:40am.

II.                Minutes of the January 3, 2008 meeting – Deborah made a motion to accept the minutes of the last meeting. Georgene seconded the motion. Motion passed and minutes were accepted.

III.     Microsoft Vista for Administrators – Georgene and Melanie gave the committee an overview of Windows Vista, focusing on items of interest to network administrators. Their handouts will be available through a link on the LIT forum board. Melanie also gave the group a demo of a Dymo spine label printer used at Lincoln.

IV.             Other

a. Rick announced that OSL has obtained 1500 licenses for Office 2007 for use in OSL libraries. The new version of the Millennium client (160_02) is available and libraries may upgrade if they want to, but there is no urgency to do so. It seems to be more stable and reasonably fast. The new version of the client is available from the support FTP site. The FTP site has a new address of 204.17.98.40. Also on the FTP site are a few ghost image ISO files and Symantec Endpoint Protection Version 11.0.1000.1375. You’ll need to create a firewall rule if you use SEP with Deep Freeze. Contact Rick for help.

b. Georgene asked if others had come up with a way to provide printing for wireless users. No one yet had a system that worked well. Issues involved with offering this service to wireless users were discussed.

c. Christie asked if it would be possible for OSL to coordinate a group purchase of flash drives for patrons in order to keep the cost low.

d. Christine asked Rick about Champlin Technology Grants. Grant deadline for technology will be April 25th. Grants should follow the same general process as last year.

e. Chaichin passed around a new book titled The Joy of Computing. If you Google the title, you will find it downloadable in its entirety.

V.                Meetings Schedule – Future meetings schedule was set as follows:

May 1, 2008 in Warwick

July 10, 2008 in Cumberland

September 4, 2008 in Jamestown

November 6, 2008 at OSL offices

Meeting adjourned at 11:20am.         

Submitted by Christine Jeffers



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