PCST Public Computing Service Team

Group members

• Greg Careaga
• Amy Chirman
• Frank Dang
• Peggy McNicholas
• Sarah Troy

Relationships with other committees & work groups

• LTCG -- Our steering committee / advisory body     
• EIRST
• IT/Library Commons

• Questions
  • How do our responsibilities overlap?
  • How do we facilitate communication among groups?

Printing Needs /  Requirements / Concerns

• Public patron access
• Instructor access: Both instructor laptops are networked to the classroom printer which is located in rm. 2353A (the classroom closet). If this printer needs maintenance please contact Amy Chirman at 9-3229.
• Billing directly to university accounts
• Billing community patrons

What I mentioned to LTCG

• Accomadate direct billing
• General public need some way to use it
• Simple
• outside computer use (ie a student laptop) 

Service requests

• I want a change to the public computers.
  • http://library.ucsc.edu/services/software_req/
• Where are public computers located?
• http://library.ucsc.edu/services/pubcomputing/
  • that has lots of info about printing and other stuff

Instruction room roles and FAQs

• Instruction Room Issues and Campus Classroom Spaces - List compiled by Annette Marines.
• Diagram of standard classroom setup: This will be posted in the classroom (in process, 3/09, AC). Staff requesting classroom use are listed as the contact person for that instruction session or meeting and are asked to return the classroom to its standard setup at the end of their scheduled room use.
• FAQ
  • Whom to contact for support: For instruction session information, contact Annette Marines (9-3255). For meeting information or tech. support, contact Amy Chirman (9-3229).
  • Who gets to use the room: The McHenry Library classroom reservation and use policy is availabe at library.ucsc.edu/ref/350/policy.html.
  • How to book the room: The Reference Unit is responsible for booking instruction sessions and meetings in the McHenry Library classroom. For more information, including links to the classroom calendar and instruction session or meeting request forms, see the Reference Unit section at library.ucsc.edu/ref/index.html.
  • Is food allowed in the classroom? Here is a link to the University Library Food and Drink Policy: Food_Drink_Policy.pdf. Covered beverages ONLY are allowed in the library classrooms at McHenry and the Science & Engineering library.

New (to us) technologies to investigate

• SMART Board
  • http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Boards/
• Room Reservation Software
  • RoomWizard (used at Santa Clara University): http://www.steelcase.com/na/roomwizard_products.aspx?f=12117
• Whiteboard walls for study rooms 

Sources 

• Charge http://internal.library/comm/pcst/
• Governing body http://internal.library.ucsc.edu/comm/ltcg/

Notes

• Just talked to Mike Veglia for a bit on the projector / smartboard discussion
  • PCST had mentioned we might need a higher end projector for images, does the epson provide this? would the smartboard provide this? is it a priority
  • Media services uses a "wolfvision" document camera almost exclusively, what are drawbacks / advantages of this compared to the smart board
  • epson bulbs are $400 and last 2500-3000 hours
  • HAVC (art history) uses some higher end projectors in a few locations, is that important to checkout?
  • added by frank on 2/23
• new article about learning space design

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0924.pdf

Meetings

Second Thursday of every month, 1-2 PM in Rm. 0345.

Drafts