Alvarez asked about the policy for repairing or replacing digital projectors. Kasner said that first contact for equipment failure in the Chemistry Department is the Tech. Support staff. O'Brien explained that Tech. Coordinator staff will troubleshoot any equipment failure, and if they can't fix it, they call the Help Desk and consult before the item is escalated for replacement. Also, IT has five or six emergency data projectors for replacing the equipment while IT has the item for troubleshooting. Budgeting in IT is committed to replace projectors as they go down.
 
*Ad Hoc Committee Reports: Learning Management Subcommittee (LMS)*
Kahn (Chair) reported that the LMS met on November 5th and reviewed the planned BlackBoard upgrade over Winter Break. There was also discussion about the moodle open source course management system. The next meeting will be December 17th.
 
*Ad Hoc Committee Reports: Digital Repository SubCommittee*
Mallery (Chair) reviewed the "Report on Digital Repositories at MSU" prepared by the DR SubCommittee and distributed via the ACC listserv. Kelton moved and Kahn seconded, and the ACC voted unanimously in favor of adopting the recommendations of the Report:
 
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the Subcommittee recommends that the Faculty Senate and the Office of Information Technology convene a working group that will be responsible for:
 
* investigating a repository infrastructure for MSU, including issues of advocacy, process and ingest, and developments in resource discovery and use.
 
* developing a policy environment where digital asset production will flourish. These policies would manage the creation, supply, access to and preservation of digital images, multimedia, research papers, etc. for the purposes of education or research. 
 
* finding and exploiting synergies across MSU and beyond, gathering scenarios and use cases from projects, establishing liaisons with faculty and staff and other national and international institutional repositories. 
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After discussion on the the nature of an institutional repository and the logistics of how to convene a working group to implement the recommendations of the DR Report, the ACC voted unanimously to have Kasner wait before bringing the recommendation to the Faculty Senate and invite Ed Chapel to come to the December ACC meeting to ask for his recommendations and ideas in response to the DR SubCommittee's Report.
 
*Old Business*
-Communication Methods
Kasner asked for the ACC to discuss how to improve communication with the faculty on campus. Kelton noted that campus email is not the best means of communication, and sometimes, as with a recent librarynews listserv post on a resource being unavailable over the weekend, the email is not delivered in time. 
 
Kelton recommended RSS feeds as a better way to communicate campus news. For ease of setting up RSS feeds by faculty, Kahn recommended and will send out to the ACC listserv the URL for the popular YouTube video by CommonCraft on how to set up RSS feeds.
 
*Next Meeting*
The next meeting of the ACC is scheduled for Monday, December 10th, in the Courtyard Lounge in University Hall. After discussion, Kasner agreed to cancel the January, 2008 ACC meeting, which was scheduled on Martin Luther King Day. The ACC will meet on February 11th in the Library's Special Collections Room for the first meeting of 2008.