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Notes from 6 May 2013 Meeting |
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Attendees: 8
Discussions
We talked about Conversation ranged far and wide across topics:
- Survey of wifi in CUNY libraries (results are here). If anyone wants a copy of the individual responses from each school, please contact Stephen Francoeur.
- There is also a separate report that Curtis Kendrick put together recently after he polled the chief librarians about wireless access at their libraries.
- Printing from wireless devices
- Logins for wifi vs. deskstop
- easier at some campuses than others
- some schools still not requiring login for selected desktop machines
- some school require burdensome hurdles to be cleared before wireless access can be set up on a student's device
- CUNY internet network
- Manhattan campuses are on fiber, campuses in the other boroughs will be getting fiber in the coming years
- Load balancing as an issue
- Redirecting databases page to CUNY A-Z list of databsases when your library site is down
- Speed test/stress test for campus wifi networks
- Teaching with mobile devices
- Laptop carts/storage in the classroom (charging batteries is a challenge)
- Baruch is getting a laptop/iPad checkout kiosk soon; such a setup might work in a classroom too if you wanted a wireless classroom
- Checkouts of mobile devices
- Most campuses only check out iPads and no Android or Windows tablets (why?)
- Google Chromebook as laptop loan option?
Next Meeting
June 3 (first Monday of the month) at 9:30. Location TBD. Those of us working on usability testing of mobile services/tech will discuss what we've learned and what questions we still have. |
