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Minutes - 4 February 2004

Present: Hennig (chair), Duke, Edelman, Quirion(minutes), Skuce

1. Homepage Redesign: Timeline and Strategy

We reviewed a timeline that Nicole prepared for the home page redesign project and the rationale for redesigning the home page. We reviewed an inventory of items that will and will not be included on the new home page and the best arrangement for these links. Nicole edited our wire frame to include these links.

Skuce and Hennig will go to Steering Committee on March 18th to present a wire frame of the new design and solicit feedback in the early stages of the design process. We decided to add links for graduate students, faculty, and undergraduates under research help on the Ask Us! page. The link for faculty will still remain on the home page, but starting points for other items should already be covered in the "How Do I..." category. The Graduate Student page will be moved into the FAQ section of the current web site for now.

2. Importing BELL titles into Vera

We received positive responses from subject selector and library staff after asking them about adding BELL titles to Vera. We plan to go forward with the import toward the end of February. We also discussed other ways to present the BELL information, looking at Columbia University's use of LC class numbers to assign subjects to Columbia's e-journals.

3. Updates

  • Links to the metadata unit were moved under Collection Services on the list of MIT Libraries page and a link to the metadata unit was added to every page of the metadata reference guide, as well as the list of MIT libraries page.
  • Carl and Nicole are still working on installing Moveable Type, a free
    content management system for blogs, on a library server. We will then
    test the possibility of managing the News Briefs section of our site
    with this system.
  • Nicole is still working on the new subject page templates.

Next meetings:

Thurs., 2/12/04 3-4, Barker Conference Room (Home page redesign kickoff meeting with Hecht Designs)

Wed., 2/18/04 2-3:30, Barker Conference Room

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