Just a few quick and dirty thoughts:
    You really do need some staff at the location for both software and
hardware problems.  If you put some of your current staff there are you showing
that you really do not need all that staff you currently have in the Map Room??
     Can you set up a easy to use communication system between the Map Room and
the Branch??
     If no map room staff is to be present what about setting up a workstation
with a multi-CD drive, a good menu, and some easy to use programs.  Allow
patrons to use and print from Map Expert and Global Explorer.  I would like to
test Map Expert as a database on the UGA Libraries Reference LAN.  (Are the
DeLorme people still on the net??  --Can I do this???  --The LAN goes out
over the University broadband to other LANs on campus and to campus modum
users.)  You might want to set up ArcView with some preloaded files of
heavy use maps.
     What I want to do at Georgia is make any PC a potential GIS center.
What I plan (that is: want, or beg my library for) is a Map Room LAN with
broadband connections.  Most of the Map Room's software and databases would
be available on this LAN, as would menu connections to other data sites.
Gopher connections would also be part of the system.  I am currently looking
into establishing a Map Room gopher which, since I do not have a LAN, would be
located, for now, on xxxx's (political deletion) system.
 
Johnnie Sutherland
University of Georgia
JSUTHERL@UGA