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Minutes - 6 February 2002

Present: Duke (minutes), Hennig, Skuce

1. Review of brownbag feedback

We summarized and reviewed the feedback from the brownbag lunch. Most comments revolved around several larger issues:

• off-campus accessibility
• role of subject pages
• broadening the scope of our site to be more inclusive (particularly to resources of the larger MIT community)
• promoting local and system-wide resources that are somewhat buried
• find more ways to make users self-empowered (creating how-tos, etc.)
  

From these comments, the group is organizing the specific suggestions and brainstorming for other solutions and dividing them into tasks that can easily be done (and doing them), and projects that will be part of the larger review and updating of the site.

2. SFX interface and buttons

Nicole showed the group different options she has been working on for SFX buttons - the group recommended potential labels and discussed issues that would influence or impact the use of SFX.

3. Future of Subject Pages

The group explored options for the the future of subject pages and which groups we should get involved in this discussion. Nicole introduced some new thoughts on how the research help and subjects/courses pages could be reconceptualized. To be discussed more in the future.

Future agenda topics:

• list of "to dos" from our homepage review using Jakob Nielsen's criteria
• ideas from peer institutions (UTexas and John Hopkins)
• privacy guidelines

 

Next meeting:

Monday, February 25 (note different day), 2-3:30pm; 10-500 (Nicole's office)

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