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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of October 26, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Davis Centre Library, DC 1568

Present : Pascal Calarco, Marian Davies, Chris Gray (recorder), Esther Millar, Charles Woods (Chair)

Regrets: Doug Morton, Alex McCulloch, Annie Bélanger, Nancy Collins

  1. Approval of WebOps Minutes of October 12
    Approved with minor changes.

  2. Business Arising form the Minutes of October 12

    #2 Buisiness Arising #6 Around the Table
    Action: Marian will look into getting permission to create new sections on the SharePoint site
    Action: Chris added links in SharePoint to sites dealing with web governance
    Action: Chris added link in SharePoint to list of interesting new books on web design
    Action: Chris will work with Musagetes and Map Library to meet there needs for the room booking system (Carried Forward)

    #5 Usability Studies
    Action: Marian will post documents on SharePoint for group to review (Carried Forward)
    Action: Marian will provide more information on Primo Central trial when available (Carried Forward)

  3. Agenda Review
    There were no changes to the agenda

  4. Popular Choices menu
    Considered request to add JStor to this menu.  The concern was raised as to whether the list was already too long.  It is not clear to the group what the criteria are or should be for inclusion on the menu.  Further discussion was postponed until Doug and Nancy were consulted since they were the last to consider these issues.
    The RefWorks group's request to remove the home page right navigation link to RefWorks was considered. It was decided to do this.
    Action: Charles will email Tim and Sandra to notify them and determine the next step

  5. Help & Instruction page
    No clear resolution was reached on the request to move the secondary nav bar items on this page into the left nav.  It is not clear what the criteria are or should be for such decision. It is to be hoped that a new IA for the library website, planned for the Drupal migration, will help resolve such issues in future.
    In the meantime, it was decided that all such requests will need to be considered on an ad hoc basis.

  6. Library Self-Study review
    Chris and Charles went over the additions they had made to the spreadsheet on the SharePoint site.
    Action: All committee members were asked to review the spreadsheet and make additions as needed.
    Action: Chris and Charles consult with Pascal on item 9 (making recommendations on policy, financial, resource, long-term planning, etc) on spreadsheet

  7. Around the Table
    Pascal - There is an opportunity to hire a co-op student for the Winter term to help WebOps with preparation for Drupal migration
    - There is a South African librarian visiting in for 6 weeks beginning in March. They will work most closely with Jennifer and Kathy Szigetti. This is part of an ARL eresearch project and funded by a Carnegie grant.

  8. Next Meeting: November 23, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Davis Centre Library, Conference Room 1568
    Recorder: Alex McCulloch

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November 9, 2011