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Minutes - 15 March 2006

Members present: Hennig (chair), Duke, Quirion, Skuce (minutes)
Guest: Wenger

1. SFX items (with Rich Wenger)

Rich and Nicole met to work on implementing earlier decisions by WAG regarding various SFX/Barton issues.  WAG reviewed button placement in various screens.

  • In Brief display, the button has been moved next to the "Online ed." label for now, and looks good.
  • In Table view, we will try placing the button in the "URL" column.  (This prompted the question of whether we can fit a format descriptor in the table view.  We have placed this on our Future Items agenda).
  • For Full display, we would like to strip the "**See URL(s)" text from holdings displays; this is an artifact of earlier item-level, text-based systems.  Stephen will confer with Christine Moulen and Beth Siers to discuss this possibility, and to consider possible impacts on current practice.
  • In the Availability/Holdings display, we decided not to show the SFX button in the top section since users have plenty of opportunity to use the button in other more prominent places. Instead, next to each individual issue of a journal, the button will be replaced with a link next to each item that reads, "Electronic Access." These links go directly to the issue listed via the SFX menu.

Other Barton issues: Stephen will confer with Rebecca Lubas regarding record loads for aggregator titles, and Nicole will speak with Beth regarding URLs for other-than-full-text.


2.  Future of Web Advisory Group

Nicole shared with WAG a draft charge for a somewhat revamped group.  We discussed the charge, the proposed membership, and a possible target date for cutover to the new iteration.  Proposed target: June 2006, when there is already some membership rotation planned.


3. Library Survey results

There is a large amount of information now available for analysis. WAG identified its major areas of interest among the data categories: 1a, 2, 3, 5, 8-15. For our next meeting, we will examine some of the data from this list, and see what we can learn re: what WAG should be working on.


4. Wikis for the Staff Web

At the most recent Technology Advisory Group meeting, people using wikis at Barker and in ILS demonstrated what they've been doing in their units.  WAG sees strong potential for the Staff Web in wiki technology, though access and protection are concerns for us.  We're waiting for IS&T to announce support for a campus-wide wiki that anyone can use; we hear this is coming soon.  If we can, we'd like to get started on this in summer 2006.  If IS&T does not come through fairly soon, we will have to consider other options.


5. Future items for WAG

  1. Robert Wolfe, who is working on metadata for podcasts on campus, will join us at a meeting in the near future.  WAG would like a libraries presence in campus-wide podcasting
  2. Archives Web site redesign
  3. Table view in Barton


Next meeting:

Wednesday, April 5, 2-3:30 pm, Cubespace

http://libstaff.mit.edu/webgroup/minutes/20060315.html


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