Skip to the content of the web site.

Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of July 13, 2011, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Dana Porter Library, Room 428

Present : Pascal Calarco, Nancy Collins, Chris Gray, Esther Millar, Doug Morton (Recorder), Charles Woods (Chair)

Regrets: Annie Bélanger, Marian Davies, Alex McCulloch,

  1. Approval of WebOps Minutes of May 25 – approved with minor corrections

  2. Business Arising from the Minutes of May 25
    2.1 Feedback form at Musagetes:
    Action    : Chris will continue to work on the forms
    Charles will contact people at Musagetes
    2.2 Whereitis floorplans at Musagetes:
    Action     Charles will also ask staff at Musagetes about the status and requirements for this project.
    3.7 Web Governance: Looking to initiate a discussion on models and protocols for web governance in the library
    Action Charles will set up a discussion page on Sharepoint
    Other points are carried forward.
    4 Quick Polls
    Action Chris's efforts to enhance accessibility and reduce spamming carried forward.

  3. Agenda Review

    Nothing added

  4. Introduction of Pascal Calarco to the Web Operational management Committee
    Pascal was welcomed to the group.
    He was given a brief history of the committee, some of the tasks which we perform and challenges faced.
    Pascal gave a brief description of his experiences and projects worked on that might be useful in our context.

  5. Update on the work of the Web Advisory Committee
    Chris has distributed minutes of the most recent meeting. Some of the pilot projects are going live this fall and some academic department level projects should soon be initiated. The organizers have been collecting information on what went well and what went not-so-well.

  6. Discipline Area & LibGuides
    Esther reported that Chris has set up a redirect from the old subject guides area to the new LibGuides. There are many .bak and "notes" files to be cleaned up.
    Action Esther, Chris & Charles will investigate methods to clean this up.

    Nancy noted that backups of LibGuides are available.
    Action Esther will ask Kathy S. to send a reminder to LibGuides users suggesting they back up their guides.

  7. Around the Table
    • Chris has finished an 8-week course on web accessibility; he notes
      a. it's a job for a specialist.
      b. it's difficult to maintain those skills.
      He pointed to Liam Morland of IST as a campus resource person for web accessibility.
      Chris noted that a poster near the elevators in Porter is an excellent candidate for QR codes.
    • Nancy will be attending a UT iSchool course on Social Media Strategies.
    • Charles will be getting together with systems people from UG and WLU to create a TOMCAT version of WebVoyage which they hope to be stable.

  8. Next Meeting: July 27, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Davis Centre Library, Room 1568
    Recorder: Nancy Collins

If you have any queries or concerns about this page, please contact .

August 24, 2011