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Minutes - 6 May 2002

Present: Duke (minutes), Hennig, Skuce

1. Meeting with the Reference Committee

Nicole will meet on June 4th with the Reference Committee to discuss possible changes to some of the categories on our home page. Both Stephen and Darcy will be out of town and cannot attend, so Nicole will report back to the group.

2. Metalib and SFX

The group discussed the recent training and progress with Metalib, including the follow-up meeting with the ENAV group and the public service individuals who attended the training. The Web Advisory Group was very enthusiastic about Metalib and could be a resource in helping with its development.

The group reviewed some SFX screens Nicole has been customizing to show the ENAV group.

3. Web statistics packages

Nicole had been investigating web statistics packages on behalf of a few groups in the Libraries. WebTrends seems to be the industry standard. It does offer more extensive reports and views of our data than our current software, but is rather expensive. Nicole will investigate further.

4. Finding articles, etc. pages

The Instruction Committee has developed a new set of pages to help novice users with the basics of finding information (how to find books, articles, web pages, etc., relevent to a particular topic). The group discussed where to link to these pages from and a few ideas for changes were also generated - Darcy will mock-up some of these and WAG will bring them back to the Instruction Committee.

 

Next meetings:

Wednesday, May 15, 2:30-4pm (note different day/time); 10-500 (Nicole's office)
Wednesday, June 26, 2-3:30pm (note different day/time); 10-500 (Nicole's office)

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