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Web Advisory Committee Minutes, September 13, 2005

Minutes-taker: Sarah for Suzanne Beckett
Attending: Beckett, Suzanne; Irwin, Marie S; Jones, Sarah; King, Burton; Spitzenberger, Cathleen; Stepanovich, Mitch; Trkay, Gretchen; Walter, Catherine
Absent: Wellvang, James K

Agenda:

Organizing ourselves for the coming year

• Choose a meeting time
  • 2nd/4th Tuesday 1:30-3:00
• Minutes-taking rotation
  • whoever's running the laptop will take notes
• Tasks and priorities for the coming year (including anything left over from last year)
  • DLS to implement Message Boards (Q1)
  • Usability/accessibility (usability IPT)
  • Rethinking the content/layout/tasks of the "Find" pages (Q1)
  • Distributed authoring (Q1)
  • Google Search Appliance (aka the Google Mini) (Q1)
  • Reconsider content for Resources for You pages
  • OneSearch integration (initially: text link in Search box on home page, A-Z Database list, included in the Find Articles page - Q1-Q2)
  • Template for library staff "bio" pages
  • Profile questionnaire/info for the models in the home page photographs
  • Tutorials template (online instructional support IPT)
  • Course guides template
  • Sorting through the course guides/tutorials/how to's/etc
  • Fleshing out the narrow subject pages with more than licensed databases
  • Enhanced, integrated live chat assistance
  • Get the Web Comments IM accounts going, finally
  • Assignment Calculator (http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/)

Next Meeting:
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 1:30-3:00 pm