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Minutes - 20 April 2005

Present: Hennig (chair), Duke (minutes), Quirion, Skuce; guests: Lois Beattie and Tracy Gabridge

1. Barton upgrade

Tracy came to get feedback on some changes to the Barton OPAC upgrade:

  • Forgot your password feature: May not be functional for cutover in June, but still wants feedback (Christine and Darcy will mock something up - different questions, give choice of secure and non-secure options)
  • Save/email features has new options: "Create your own format" and "Encoding." Stephen will test the encoding options with foreign-language records. We liked the option of choosing the individual elements, but recommended a few wording/formats.
  • In the future will be asking about Your Bookshelf feature.

2. Records management web site

Lois Beattie came to our meeting to discuss the new site. The group gave some feedback on the sidebar and some formatting issues. Where to link to from our site? Falls into category of services geared more towards staff (like Metadata, etc). We will put it in the site index, spotlight it when it goes live and if we come up with pages geared towards administrative staff, then we will link to it from there.

3. Draft pages for RedLight Green, WorldCat and similar tools

Sarah Wenzel and Stephen will talk about a page for WorldCat and Stephen will work on RedLight Green. We will talk more about his at one of the next few meetings.

4. Brief updates

  • Name change on new web site from "Data Services" to "Social Science Data Services."
  • RSC name change will be happening over the summer (to Library Storage Annex).
  • Lisa Sweeney has been revamping the GIS web site; Nicole will invite her to a WAG meeting when they are a little further along.
  • New page for the DLRG (Digital Libraries Research Group): http://libraries.mit.edu/dlrg/index.html; we can spotlight this page at some point.
  • Suggestions from Louisa for publicizing DSpace more: put DSpace in Vera - list under General? (Nicole will email Louisa to fill out Vera request form with MargretB)
  • Should we list Google Scholar in Vera? Yes - Christine will ask Millicent to fill out Vera request form (since she worked on GoogleScholar page).
  • Nicole spoke with Ben Brophy about Stellar - could we still use it as a way to make course pages? Nicole attempted to make a mockup page - there are a few klunky problems, but it has potential. Ben was open to these ideas and was interested in working on the issues.
  • Darcy and Stephen went to the Knowledge Updates session with David Game this morning, so the group discussed how we could link to this from our site and resources (put in Vera, link from subject pages, spotlight when live)
  • Nicole recently explored a new technology called screen-casting, with software that can capture screen video with voice-over and save it in various formats - this could be great for instruction. You can make an RSS feed of this so that users can be updated when new tutorials are available.
  • Stephen has been talking to Rob Wolfe about spotlighting Metadata Services - they will soon be launching a postcard campaign and the image they are using for that might be good for the curious stripe. It would be good to tie that in, so Stephen will talk with Rob about getting the rights to the image.
  • Keep on the agenda: getting an RSS feed for when your books are due.


Next meeting:

Wednesday, May 18, 2-3:30pm, CubeSpace

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