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Minutes - 18 May 2005

Present: Hennig (chair), Duke, Gaskell (minutes), Quirion; guests: Jennifer Edwards, Stephanie Hartman, Graham Howard, Rich Wenger, and Robert Wolfe

1. Barton as an SFX source

The group discussed the design and placement of SFX buttons in Barton for holdings, brief and full displays. The button will include a hypertext-like link and SFX logo: Electronic Access SFX. For the brief table view, brief list view and full display, the button will appear in the location field. In the holding view, it will appear after the summary holdings where current internet resource link is.

  • Nicole will draft a new button and send it to Darcy for implementation list after Aleph 16 conversion
  • The group decided to remove the URL for table of contents in barton and just make table of contents a text link. The publisher’s description will also change to a text link.
  • Chris will bring the idea of web docs or document delivery button in Barton on non-sfx records to Steve Gass.

Note: Later in July after we're on v. 16, we'll turn the SFX buttons on in test-Barton and review all these decisions when we can see how it will look and function.

2. Other SFX issues

  • The group decided to continue the current simplified publisher list by keeping the public name Elsevier Science Direct for Elsevier titles that recently have been split into different targets.
  • Rich will turn on Endnote in link in test in SFX and Nicole will invite Howard Silver to a future meeting.

3. Blogs

Several people in the libraries are testing blog technology and the group asked them to update us on their progress.

  • Nicole and Darcy talked about how their testing a blog for posting library news on the website using Wordpress. They showed the in-progress site. They also asked a few individuals in the libraries to contribute news to the blog. They are working on guidelines to be communicated during training.
  • Stephanie talked about using the blog for Team Delta information. She felt the blog is not the best format for this application. The web site had already been created and two sources plus the email updates is overkill. Stephanie prefers the html due to its familiarity and static nature.
  • Rob has been using a blog to track meeting notes and deliverables. They aren't minutes but do provide a common record of understanding. He prefers it when you have many people participating. He's used it as an asynchronous training tool for students pointing to relevant objects. It's worked very well, even better than email since everything is linked together. A problem is how to link information that can't be public. Nicoole will explore ways of making certain posts private
  • Darcy will eventually use OPAC status blog as a tool for working with systems staff. Currently it is just to keep all staff updated on bugs.


Next meeting:

Wednesday, June 1, 2-3:30pm, CubeSpace

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