LIT Committee Meeting, Thursday January 8^th at 9:30am in NKI

Attendance: Christine Jeffers (PAW), Luke Owens (NPT), Deborah Homer (JAM), Chaichin Chen (OLIS), Ray Hetherington (GVL), Paul Holiday (CRA), ED Garcia (CRA), Rick Payette (OSL), Lisa Davis (OSL), Celeste Dyer (CUM), Susan Moreland (NKI), Christie Getches (SKI), Joan Gillespie (OSL), Prue Fallon (TIV), Miquel DeFaria (CFA), Georgene Luttmann (LIN)

       I.            Call to order – Susan Moreland called the meeting to order at 9:45am.

     II.            Minutes of the November 13, 2008 minutes meeting – Susan made a motion to accept the minutes of the last meeting. Christie seconded the motion. Motion passed and minutes were accepted.

   III.            Introduction of new attendees

   IV.            Champlin 2009 Grant-

Rick has started ordering. Desktop computers should all be ordered by January 23^rd , laptops shortly after. Everything but the servers should be ordered by mid February.

Computers will have Vista on them. You still have the right to put XP on these latest computers. Rick will send out XP Ghost Images in the delivery after the next set of Microsoft updates on January 14^th.

The next operating system, Windows 7, has a beta release 1/10/09. 755s, 745s should be easily upgradable to Windows 7.  XP is supported by Microsoft until 2012.

     V.            Retiring Server-

Currently there are 23 library web sites that are hosted on this older server. A new server has been purchased with Champlin funds to host these sites. This web server will only offer HTML, not SQL, MYSQL, PHP. For security reasons, OSL does not want to host the LIT forum or other OSL business sites on this server that is available via the Internet, but instead would like to have the LIT Forum available on an Intranet.

The OSL Exchange server should be upgraded but Public Folders have been “deprecated” in favor of Microsoft SharePoint which Rick feels is not an option. Lisa pointed out that the current Exchange server is not universally used.

There was a general, favorable discussion on WordPress as an option for announcements, a calendar, and minutes. It was decided that more investigation was needed for a solution to conversations, which WordPress does not do well.

Another meeting was scheduled for 9:30am February 5^th at OSL to discuss a Bulletin Board/Forum solution for conversations. Discussion is to start on the LIT forum. Joan needs to have a plan in place by July.

   VI.            Other-

Georgene asked about those libraries loaning Blue-ray and Game CDs. Celeste said Cumberland had success with Wii and PS2. They keep the actual DVDs\CDs behind the counter.

Adjournment – the meeting was adjourned at 11:30am.