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Minutes -16 April 2003
Members present: Hennig (chair) (minutes), Darcy Duke, Christine Quirion, Stephen Skuce
1. Archives usability tests
Lois was able to get Bosworth's gift certificates for $5 each to use as rewards for the testers. Nora will distribute names of volunteers to the observers in the next few days. Stephen will send updated copies of the test to all of us. Nicole will collect the results. Observers should email results to Nicole after each test. We'll meet to discuss results on May 21.
2. E-reserves and SFX
Christine brought to us the idea of using the SFX Citation Linker (with visible URLs turned on) as a tool for users to generate URLs to use on Stellar or other course pages created by faculty. Those URLS would link to an SFX menu for a particular article. This will work if SFX links to the article level. We agreed that this is a good idea and we'll include this in our next discussion of the SFX Citation Linker (FullText Finder).
Also discussed: how to promote our pages that tell people how to link to articles in databases? Darcy will contact our faculty user group about linking from the new faculty FAQ to the pages about linking: Linking to Articles Online: Information for MIT Faculty. We also have information about how to link to specific records in Barton, but we will wait until the no-frames version is ready before making a page to promote that (since the syntax will change).
3. Other items
The new "Hot Topics" page is almost ready. We will announce it when it goes live. It includes links to the new "Metadata Reference Guide," Carol's "Letter from the Faculty Committee on the Library System (FCLS)," "Journals Purchasing Environment Poses New Problems," a "Planning for the Future" section including the HASS committee report, and more.
Web changes as a result of the usability tests will happen soon. Nicole will work on mockups of possible Vera changes to discuss at a future meeting.
We're still waiting to hear back from CMG about another volunteer to work with us on a new template for Subject Guides.
Next meetingMay 14, 2-3:30pm, Music Conference Room
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