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I-Share Opac Team Meeting Minutes
Monday August 21, 2006. Present: Nancy Bohm, Kathy Chang, Kathleen Conley, Jonathan Gorman, Hilary Kraus, Amanda Pippit, Stephen Wright, Paige Weston Absent: Skip Burhans, Jan Sung Approving the minutes from last time can wait till next meeting. 1) No hits issue Nancy brought our attention to complaints from Lake College that their “no hits” page has issues. One is that people have to scroll down, the other the fonts are difficult to read. The try again/repeat search in I-Share catalog have same font color. These seem to be issues related with some of the individual customizers. 2) Problem with hyperlinking on the Titles page On certain searches columns and multiple matching are not properly hyperlinked The multiple matching appears to be a bug. The columns are not hyperlinked because WebVoyage associates linking with columns, not the data within that column. This is a problem when the search doesn't always return data. In author searches a field in a record could match but the field that the "author" column gets the data from is empty. So the column is blank, hence not giving a link except for the easily missed row number. Example: Advanced title search, search for carl bach in author words Paige mentioned several possible solutions to this problem
Jon Gorman suggested making all columns link and using javascript/css to make full title look clickable, but nothing else. Another suggestion was to make all column links (Who’s idea was this? missing from my notes) The issue with making author and similar columns clickable is the implication that an author search would be done if it the author field is clicked. Instead, it will simply point to the single-record View of the record that matched. It was decided to use the two column approach. In most searches this will make the publication date a hyperlink to the record as well. Since few people click on this, it should hopefully not cause too much confusion to our patrons. Also noticed during this time was that the call number wrapping is frequently a problem for patrons who only copy down the first line. 3) Hilary invited any corrections on her paragraph on initial article, but no one had any at that time. 4) RSS Feeds (brought to our attention by Tom on behalf of IUG) CARLI staff is currently working on implementing the New Titles list as developed by Michael Doran. Some work was delayed due to time pressures on other projects such as the recent upgrade. This team recommends the CARLI team concentrates on the "New Titles" tab but adding RSS as an additional output option once the tab is implemented. In the meantime, the team will work on a page that covers some of the current implementation of RSS/new titles. (Not yet assigned who would do this) There are issues of what is a "new book" that still need to be determined. Another consideration is that RSS still does not have a wide user base. 5) Tagging (brought to our attention by Tom on behalf of IUG) Beyond the scope of this committee. It would require radical measures and is more appropriate for consideration by the New Products committee when WebVoyage is replaced. Task List: Task list was revised to use words rather than symbols. Symbols were decided as confusing.. new scales:
Task list (by #) difficulty priority status 1 hard high planning 2 medium medium no action 3 hard high planning 4 easy to do badly 5 medium medium no action 6 easy low in development 7 easy low in planning 8 hard medium no action 9 hard high in planning 10 easy low no action 11 hard low no action 12 medium low no action 13 hard low no action 14 medium low no action 15 hard high no action 16 hard low no action (in one part I have the phrase "no action" and another part I have "no current action"given one of the notes says "no further action" I'm thinking that we must have talked about having "no current action" and "no further action".) Templates: Paige will create mockups of some of the possible template approaches. Spell Check: People on the committee should look and evaluate options from a variety of sources, including commercial. Next meeting:
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