Notes of Meeting of March 14, 2005
Porter Library Room 512A
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Attendance: Christy Branston, Rachel Caldwell, Helena Calogeridis, Marian Davies, Sandra Keys, Dan Sich, Marina Wan
Regrets: Linda Hastings, Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield
Notes From Last Meeting
- Notes approved with minor changes.
Business Arising
- Marina reported on the hiring of a co-op student for the spring term. The successful candidate is John Chan, 1st year computer engineering student. He will be working on several web projects from May through to August.
Agenda Review
- Item added to today's (March 14) agenda is the Ethics application.
Ethics Application
- Christy presented the first draft of the application for the Ethics Board. Changes were noted. Christy will make the changes and send the application to the Ethics Board sometime this week.
Navigation Scheme
- Marina mentioned that one approach to this task is to see what other institutions are doing. She pointed to several university websites that had recently changed their website design, along with conducting usability tests. University of Washington, Penn State, Rochester, Memorial, and Mt. Allison were some of the sites Marina pointed to, noting similarities in headings such as Resources, Services, About, and in other instances Find, Help.
- The left side navigation bar will incorporate both quick links and navigation links. We did agree on the following to appear on the left side bar: Ask a Librarian, TRELLIS, Help & Instruction, Subject Guides, Connect from home. We also agreed that About us and Services for... should appear on the right hand side. We did not agree as to whether Books and Articles should be separate or together, or if borrow should be listed as a separate category. We did agree (for now) on using the term More Resources, until we find something more suitable.We should also discuss the contact us link in conjuction with the link for web comments, which are normally found in the footer information.
ACTION: Christy will send an electronic version of her groups assessment. Marian will send out three wire-frames to reflect the various approaches.
Meeting Adjourned
- Due to lengthy discussions the remaing items on the agenda, Report on UW CLF sessions and the Sub-site design, are deferred to our next meeting.
August 11, 2005
