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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of October 13, 2010, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, Davis Centre Conference Room

Present: Annie Bélanger (Chair), Chris Gray, Esther Millar, Nancy Collins (recorder), Marian Davies

Regrets: Charles Woods, Tim Ireland, Doug Morton

  1. Approval of WebOps Minutes of September 22 – Deferred. Minutes forthcoming.

  2. Business Arising (based on a review of action items)

    Primo landing page - Alison and Adrian are working on this. The goal is to have it ready by the end of November.

    LibGuides / Testing & Proxy - Chris has set up a free remote desktop application for on-campus testing. Annie will send access instructions to librarians, web content providers, library managers, and WebOps. If demand warrants it, we will look into coordinating a booking system for this service or can install separate instances of this program on the computers of staff member who require it.

    All reported LibGuides proxy problems have been solved.

    Subject Guides Homepage - Nancy changed the subject guides homepage to order the guides by faculty. Further suggested changes will be considered at a later time.

    bX Recommender - Annie will be writing a consultation protocol for the bX Recommender and will facilitate consultation with managers and liaison librarians. Doug completed a click-through analysis of the pilot.

  3. Agenda Review
    No additional agenda

  4. Location of Resource Notes
    Deferred.

  5. Visual Design of Left-Hand Menu. Chris showed mockups in Firefox and IE of his proposed changes to the left-hand navigation menu. There are minor visual glitches in both browsers, including spacing and shifting text. Chris will refine the CSS and then pass the proposed changes on to Janet and Annie for accessibility testing.

  6. Redesign Discussion

    Eva and Annie agreed that further exploration of Information Architecture needs for the library is needed as well as a greater understanding of the customization needs the library will have for the CMS. This will help the CMS team and the Library assess the best methodology for implementing a CMS instance. Eva supported the Library’s exploration of a phased protocol for redesign.

    Annie will move forward discussions about a phased protocol for Library web redesign with upper administration.

    The group brainstormed quick steps we can take now to clean up the site. Current steps include:
    • Create a list of old / outdated pages (Esther)
    • Create a list of pages not modified in the last year or longer (Chris)
    • Meet with Alison regarding Drupal's bibliographic module and interfacing with Primo (Chris)
    • Consider gateways concept for audience navigation (group)

  7. Around the Table
    Chris reported on the Summon webcasts. He mentioned that Summon looks good and appears to have good API functionality, but that it is generally not liked by faculty and grad students who conduct more comprehensive research.

    Nancy announced that LAUW has invited Sonny Banerjee and Graham McCarthy from Ryerson to speak on topics of Ryerson's staff intranet and mobile applications. Their talk is scheduled for Thursday, November 11 at 11:10 am in DC 1568.

    Annie mentioned that the campus web redesign style guide and phased protocol documents will be available shortly. She also announced that she will be part of the team leading a "basic competencies bootcamp" on web skills for staff across campus who are part of the initial redesign launch.

  8. Next Meeting
    Next Meeting: October 27, 2:00-3:30 pm. Recorder: Marian.
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