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Library Web Review Group

Notes for November 22, 2006 Meeting

LIB 428 , 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Present: Christy Branston (Recorder), Rachel Caldwell, Helena Calogeridis, Marian Davies, Sandra Keys, Esther Millar, Dan Sich, Bill Oldfield, Marina Wan (Chair)

  1. Minutes of Meeting, October 26, 2006
    Accepted as published.

  2. Business Arising
    Item 4:     Floor plans went live November 14th.

  3. Agenda Review
    Additions: item 9 - Floor plans
    Deletions: item 6

  4. LibWebReview Facilitator
    Today marks Marina's last LibWebReview meeting before retiring.  Marina spoke with Mark and Susan and they have asked the group to select an interim chair until a replacement for Marina is found. 

  5. Approach to analyzing web sites
    Helena provided some observations about web site design and usability that she gleaned from the books: "Don't Make Think", "Designing Web Usability", "Usability for the web: designing web sites that work", and "Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed".  ACTION: Helena volunteered to put togehter a criteria list to serve as a checklist for good web design. She will bring the checklist to a future meeting for the group to assist with editing.

  6. Public Workstation Desktop Image
    Marian and Christy discussed the changes that will be made with the next desktop image. An email has been sent to ISR discussing the upcoming changes.

  7. Automatic display of tips
    (Discussion covered under item 6)

  8. FloorPlans
    There have been comments made about the floorplans.  Most of the comments have been positive, however, feedback has indicated that the floorplans are buried too deeply on the site.

  9. Around the Table
    Rachel indicated that she now has access to Photoshop on her workstation.
    Marina thanked the group for all the work they've done and the group thanked Marina for keeping the committee running. We will miss you, Marina!


January 17, 2007