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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of February 18, 2004
1:30 - 3:00, Davis Centre Conference Room

Present: Christy Branston, Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, David Smith, Marina Wan (Facilitator), Charles Woods(recorder)

Absent: Chris Gray, Linda Hastings

  1. Minutes of meeting, January 21, 2004
    Minutes were approved with noted corrections ("Esther" for "Ester", "megabytes" for "megabites", "DW MX 2004" for "DW 2004 MX").

  2. Busines Arising from the Minutes of January 21, 2004
    7. Bill noted some anomalies with DW MX 2004 wrt to file-saving routines
    6. Action item (Esther will create a text statement) is done.
    10. Action item (Ester noted that the staff web navbars do not validate so she will work on these to correct this problem) is not done.

  3. Agenda Review
    None.

  4. Brief report from the CSS task group
     The work of the task group is proceeding well.

  5. Mike's report on CSS
    His document at http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/webops/
    css_2003-12.doc was tabled for the group's perusal. It will be mounted in the Webops webspace.

  6. Webops Terms of Reference
    Marina tabled an update to the group's Terms of Reference to reflect current working relationships (see http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/webops/
    terms2.html ) Some further changes were requested. Members have 24 hours to reflect on the rewording; Marina will then update the document and forward a copy to the WebOps sponsers.

  7. Display of "Library hours" without JavaScript
    David noted that maintenance problems have been encountered with the Library Hours page because only simple changes can be made to the page without a good knowledge of JavaScript. The page also does not read well with the JAWS program. David will work on a new model for the page that simplifies maintenance and present it at a future WebOps meeting for review.

  8. Report from David (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~dismith/reports)
    David reviewed his progress as documented at the URL above.

  9. OLA report
    Marina reviewed two documents sourced from the recent OLA conference concerning web-site usability.

  10. Around the Table
    None

  11. Next Meeting
    The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3 at 1:30 in Dana Porter room 428
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