Department needs are diverse and scalability is an issue - if the limits of 4D are surpassed, database administration may be required. The 4D product is also vulnerable to competition from Microsoft Access if that product is ported to Macintosh. Moving to reports from ITPG subcommittees, Elise summarized the Security Working Group's report. How to connect Art Studio remains an open issue. Folded into the discussion on recommendations was a general discussion on how to distribute the recommendations and other similar items to faculty.
Paper notes to unit heads and publication on web pages is traditional.
It was suggested that we convey our desire to have pointers to the IT planning groups appear on a top-level web page via members of the Web Working Group who are also ITPG members or who report to ITPG members. The draft Student Access Survey was also reviewed at the ITB meeting and several suggestions were noted and implemented. The most recent draft was reviewed by ITPG and a few additional changes were suggested. When these changes have been made the new draft will be circulated to ITPG electronically. Although we lacked a quorum at the meeting, several other ITPG members had voted previously by email.