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Minutes - 17 July 2002

Present: Duke (minutes), Hennig, Skuce

1. Research help page - new mockups

Nicole met with Jennifer Edeleman of the Reference Committee to work on new mockups of the Research Help page. The webgroup looked at the work in progress. The mockups will be taken back to Reference Committee for further discussion.

2. Creating a technology timeline

The group received a suggestion to create a technology timeline of the Libraries similar to that of the CalTech library: Innovation Chronology. Stephen will meet with Ruth Seidman to discuss possible timeline content.

3. DSpace page template

Nicole met with Margret Branschofsky to create mockups of sample designs for the DSpace information site (the pages about DSpace, not the application interface). The webgroup looked at the possible designs. These will be brought back to the DSpace team for selecting one of the design/color schemes. The process will continue with rewriting the DSpace informational web site and putting it into a design that matches the rest of our web site, with the goal of making it live by September.

4. RBR and Hayden Circulation web pages

By this fall, we need to make sure our web site reflects the merging of the Reserve Book Room with Hayden Circulation and that all information on relevant pages is up to date. We should also have photographs made of the new service desk for the web site. Stephen will contact the appropriate staff to work on these updates.

5. GIS site usability testing

Sarah Williams met with the group to finalize plans for usability testing of the GIS web site. The observers will meet at Rotch on August 12th 4-5pm to go over the questions and format and get their assigned volunteers. Each observer will have approximately three weeks to meet with their volunteers, and the group will debrief with the results at the September 4th WAG meeting.

6. Usability Testing of the Big Picture

Sometime this fall we plan to design a usability test for looking at the big picture of how our users find information for their research. This test would combine testing aspects of Barton, Vera, SFX, Ask Us Live, and various web tutorials (especially the new Finding Articles Tutorial that's under development). We hope to get a better picture of how all these tools work together to bring people to the information they need and how we can improve the whole integrated picture.

7. Committee membership

With all the upcoming work on usability testing, DSpace, and SFX/Metalib that may be going on this fall, the group would like to re-expand its membership back to a larger size. Nicole will draft a recommendation for membership representation based on our discussions.

 

Next meeting:

Wednesday, July 31, 2-3:30; 10-500 (Nicole's office) [Note: this meeting was cancelled.]

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