Meeting Minutes SIRS
November 12, 2003

Present: Otis Chadley, Bob Garber, Ross Laguerre, Alan Mattlage, Yahaira

Norris-Gonzalez, Beth Roberts, Deb Stefany, Cindy Todd, Michael Zeliff
Absent: Evelyn Yocco

Round Robin Items
Michael noted that the security alarm seems to go off often when a
person passes through but then doesn’t go off if they come back through
again right away. Cindy will look into why this is happening.
Post-meeting update on this: We are currently monitoring the “counters”
on those gates and that little project is due for completion after
December 1.  Lori, Chris Winker, and Cindy have agreed to consolidate
service calls, so we will review the issue that Michael raised after
December 1.
Allan mentioned that he has been working on the problem of CD’s at the
information desk. Many CD’s are unaccounted for. No one is sure where
they are.
Yahaira: Brought up the issue of students (or others) who want to
connect things like memory keys or zip drives to our computers. Cindy
clarified that for the time being this is not permitted. (May change).
Cindy: Librarians should please investigate the A.R.S binders/guides
that are located next to the “Controversial issues” material on the
first floor.  These are the printed guides relating to cd-rom and
databases.  Some of these are probably obsolete.
Many of these items can now be catalogued with a new location code!!
That location code is CPMCK REMAN (the Catalog reads UMCP McKeldin
Library Reference Manuals for Databases)

Desk Schedule  Discussion
Outcome: We will have single coverage during finals week. Finals week is
going to be the 15th of December through the 19th.
For the days December 22nd, 23rd and 24th, will be allocated as single
coverage for 9-5 for those three days.
McKeldin is open regular hours from Monday December 15-Saturday December
20.  Commencement is on Sunday December 21. Libraries are open January
2nd 9-5
January term: will be single coverage with a backup required for the
9-10am hour only.
Templates will be available soon.

Printing problems and possible solutions
We discussed some concerns from the subject teams regarding the
computers behind the Information Desk, printing issues and concerns
about inconsistencies in service. We decided to discuss how to go about
producing “Best Practices” for computers behind the desk, printing
behind the desk as well as review the procedures in place regarding
referrals.
Outcome: Review SIRS Procedures already in place and brainstorm ways to
begin working on best practices documents. Bring back to another SIRS
meeting for further discussion.

Express computers
We discussed the idea of having computers that would be assigned as
"express computers”. These would be only for checking call numbers and
would not be connected to the printers. We discussed some potential
problems with this idea as well as the potential benefits. Needs further

discussion.  Ross will see if it is technically possible to limit a
computer for Catalog searching only