Minutes of the Meeting of December 12, 2007
1:30 - 3:00 pm, DC Conference Room
Present: Allan Bell (Chair), Marian Davies, Chris Gray, Tim Ireland (recorder), Esther Millar, Doug Morton, Bill Oldfield, Dan Sich, Charles Woods
Regrets: Nancy Collins
- Approval of WebOps Minutes of November 28, 2007
Accepted.
- Business Arising
6. Facebook Applications.
Tim and Nancy are investigating uses of facebook.
5. Links to widgets and LibX
Allan and Bill are working on the A-Z for SFX.
- Agenda Review
Added Hab.la as 7(a) and Reporting Storm Closures as item 7(b). Changed Around the Table to 9.
- Links to LAUW web site on the staff web
Esther reported on the request to add a link to LAUW from the staff web “Contacts” page. Action: Esther will link to the LAUW site between the “Liaisons” and “UWDIR” link after the LAUW page has been updated.
- Spam Proofing Forms
Bill reported that the spam proofing of forms is almost complete. He is setting up documentation to assist in the creation of forms in the future. All forms have required (mandatory fields). There will be one CGI script controlling all the spam proofing of the forms. Forms can be created in Contribute and passed to Systems for the Spam Proofing application. There are some outstanding accessibility issues that need to be considered. Action: Bill will bring documentation for ongoing form creation to the next meeting. The application will be checked with accessibility software (JAWS).
- Literature Review
Allan started by quoting parts of an article on Web Redesign. http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2007/nt-2007-07-30-redesign.htm. Discussion focused on the three components of Strategy, Audience and Tasks. We need to know what we want the site to do. Further study will be required to more completely identify our audience and determine their needs. Chris expanded on these ideas with the literature review of “The Elements of User Experience”. For a web site to be successful there needs to be a strategy, and that strategy needs to articulate all components of the web site. What does the provider of the web site want, and what do the users of the web site want? The strategy needs to be available to everyone and form the guiding principles. Some manner of success metrics need to be established. The challenge is how to measure success.
Identification of the user and the user's needs is paramount. What do they do, and how do they do it? With web design, one size does not fit all.
Action: All members are to consider the objectives of the Library website. One suggestion is “Connect users to services and resources they need”.
Action: Strategy brainstorming during a future WebOps meeting.
- A) Hab.la
Dan reported the widgets can be set not to appear when no one is logged-in to monitor them.
B) Reporting Storm Closures
Esther once again volunteered to monitor storm closures of the University and make the necessary updates to the Library Homepage. Bill volunteered to be Esther's backup.
- Literature Review –(Group -30 minutes) discussion of chapters 2-4 of "Don’t make me think".
Deferred to next meeting
- Around the table
Allan brought up CNI –Coalition for Networked Information. Allan will request and send out additional material on Educause and ARL.
- Next Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 9 at 2:00 - 3:30 pm in Lib 428.
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