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Minutes - 6 March 2002

Present: Duke (minutes), Hennig, Skuce

1. SFX menu

Nicole has been working on the layout for an SFX menu to be used in our databases. The group provded some feedback on wording and content; Nicole will mock-up another version and bring it back to the group.

2. Review of a divisional library homepage

Stephen led the group in a heuristic review of the Humanities homepage (as a representative of all divisional libraries homepages) http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities using Jakob Nielsen's guidelines in his "Homepage Usability" book. Stephen will write up the results and present them to the group next time.

3. Reviewing other ARL libraries web sites

A few library web sites had been suggested to the group as examples of sites that had interesting or novel approaches to presenting their resources and services. Each member of the group will look at these suggested sites and pick a few other ARL libraries' sites and come back to the next meeting and present any interesting findings.

4. Planning usability tests for web site

The group began planning for some usability testing of the MIT Libraries web site, hopefully in the beginning of April. At the next meeting we will make concrete decisions on what exactly we will be testing and who we will be testing with. Since we are contemplating some larger changes to the site, we hope to get some input from the reference visioning group on how we might structure the presentation of our services.

 

Next meeting:

Wednesday, March 20, 2-3:30pm; 10-500 (Nicole's office)

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