Present: Bartley, Cohn, Horowitz, Locknar, McReynolds, Noga, Perkins (minutes), Rostoff, Sweeney
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- Nicole and Georgiana have been working on the new Virtual Reference Collection page, which is nearly ready for roll-out in beta mode. The page has been re-engineered using del.icio.us software. Some re-organization work remains; RISG may want to work on this.
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Assessment project:
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The remainder of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of how the RISG assessment project is taking shape. The project focuses on awareness of our subject pages by students, faculty, and library desk staff. Data compiled thus far was presented and discussed:
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The group discussed Peter's report consisting of a list of subject and publication type pages and, for each, the number of links from "outside" MIT web pages. A list of the "linked from" pages would also be useful (see Action items, below).
User Needs Assessment:unmigrated-wiki-markup
We have not looked at this yet. Maggie noted that quantitative data from this project is being loaded into DSpace, and she will find out if this data is available. \ [Note: Maggie subsequently reported that the User Needs study does not provide data relevant to this project.\ Maggie subsequently reported that the User Needs study does not provide data relevant to this project.]
Staff awareness:
The group discussed data compiled by Lisa H. from the 2005 staff self-assessment exercise based on the core competencies
3. Assessment: Next steps
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