Agenda:

  • Updates:
    • Anyone want to go to UIG on 6/12? Maybe Peter.
    • All of task force is interested in doing some training in July.
    • We'll each do a demo of LibGuides to our units this month, so they know what's on the way... 
  • Look at LibGuides pages that we've all created.  Talk about what works, what doesn't.
    • Table look good when copied from old html page, but if you try to edit them in LibGuides, formatting gets funky.  We should play with making a table from scratch in LibGuides, and see how it turns out.
    • We should tell people to be careful when copying & pasting from documents, since formatting is unpredictable.
    • Recommend that people use friendly URLs
    • Think about images; we can copy and paste images from html pages, and they're ok, since they're on the server.  But what do we do when people need to add images not on server...  Is there a place to upload them on server?
    • Play with chat boxes & make sure they work.  Recommendations for Meebo color?
    • When you link to a page with tabs, it only links to home page, and doesn't include all of the tabs
    • Should we name the homes screen?
    • Angie was able to add tab to Maggie's page & wasn't an editor!  Ask people not to add tabs to other peoples' pages without asking. 
    • Georgiana was able to add cover art to many books, but for some reason, she can't add one for the Yale Book of Quotations.  What's up with that?
    • Should we make a recommendation for having a consistent title for the profile box?
    • How to address a profile with multiple librarians?  Maybe set up a dummy profile, like "Dewey Library."  Maggie will try this out. 
    • When you add resources in one big box (in rich text), we couldn't change text size; the subheadings blend into normal text.  Could LibGuides people give us more options?
    • Can we make the title of the boxes bigger?
    • What sort of requirements should we have for user profiles: have a bare minimum of info?
    • We want a spell checker!!!!
    • Any sort of link checking service?
  • Make a plan for the next few weeks.  Action items:
    • Remlee will ask if Marion could make a few pages with examples, including new database description info, all for finance.
      • One page with multiple boxes, with categories found in descriptions.
      • One page with one big list.
      • One page with each category in a different tab.
    • Next week, we'll start to make major recommendations, then later, we'll work on the more minor points.  Start to add things on the discussion topics page
    • We'll each do a demo of LibGuides to our units this month, so they know what's on the way...
    • Remlee will start a list of LibGuides features, so we can make recommendations about each function.
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