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Minutes - 16 June 2004Present: Hennig (chair), Duke (minutes), Harter, Quirion
1. New home page photo stripe image contest
We would like to encourage staff to submit photos and ideas for the narrow photo stripe at the bottom of our page. Details of the idea were discussed and Christine will draft a message for our review.
2. New home page issues
Publicity
- Darcy and Nicole met with Heather Denny to discuss using the web page as a marketing tool.
- Nicole will ask for an MIT spotlight.
- spotlight-lib@mit.edu is a new list to send suggested spotlights to Heather will coordinate this, but Nicole and Darcy are also on it.
- Heather will turn Nicole's content into an article, will submit this to the GSN, TechTalk, etc.
Managing news
- Nicole has added a "news" link back under About Us.
- We still hope to use blogging software eventually to control news items.
Other
- Nicole has added "Hot Topics" back under About Us.
- We will ask the owners of the Graduate Student Services page and the Faculty FAQ to add a link to the Scholarly Communication page.
- Nicole will contact Carol Fleishauer about the idea of submitting an MIT home page spotlight for our Scholarly Communication page.
3. Content management systems
Carl and Nicole recently had their final meeting for this project. There are solutions available (such as Lenya or OpenACS) which look like promising candidates for the libraries. Not surprisingly, each would entail a fairly significant amount of work to implement.
However, because IS&T is also wrapping up its own CMS "Discovery" project, which has been tasked to come up with a recommendation for a campus-wide CMS service, we concluded it would be better to wait for their final report and recommendation. If this centrally supported CMS recommendation can gain the needed IS&T support to reach implementation, and if the recommended system fits our needs, the libraries would be able to move ahead as an early adopter of this central system.
In the interim, we would still like to experiment with using Macromedia Contribute on a small scale to solve specific content management issues. At this time, because of on-going developments with Contribute there is no MIT licensed release on the immediate horizon we will still have to buy our own copies. But there may be an MIT release later.
We will continue to keep on top of new developments in the area of Content Management Systems.
4. Staff web URL
Port 9500 is no longer required in the URL of the staff web pages. This means that people who are behind firewalls can now access Macfadden pages. This also means you no longer have to type "http://" in Internet Explorer at the beginning of the URL. Both the old and new URLs will work:
Nicole will email all-lib about this change and we will change the few links that exist on our pages.
5. Future agenda items
Movable Type for news, new subject guide templates, SFX citation linker, Barton as an SFX source, testing Macromedia Contribute.
Next meeting:Wednesday, July 21, 2-3:30pm, Barker Conference Room - no meeting on July 7.
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