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2. N42 Front Desk has been used for equipment checkout and checkin but it's unsecure drop-off and check-in. ---> MOVE ASSETS to a more secure place, such as Building 26, an IS&T space that is quite secure and actually more central to the students on campus, albeit not really "staffed" and thus appointments would be necessary.
3. Academic Computing / OEIT have a loose but important oversight on the administration of loan requests. John Kane \ [sp?\] of of OEIT wants to re-engineer the program. Wiki Markup
4. Current pool of PCs is old and is wearng out.
5. Check out process wants to be improved with a Bar Code reader and student ID swiper, to create a quick connection between the computer and the student receiving it. John Guy helps Ryan during the bulk checkout process, where a big pile of laptops is brought to a class session where they are all handed out. ---> the Admin Desktop process is a successful example of asset management using the bar code reader idea. The Admin Desktop program involves a newly rewritten Filemaker DB of some kind.
6. Expansion of the loaner pool? Anne says there is a funding model that drives it. \ [where is it documented? \ -\- ed.\] Wiki Markup
7. Cost Recovery possible from the conferences and other non-academic uses.
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