Thursday, April 2, 2009

D&D minutes 4/2/09

Present: Peter, Dan, Shawn, Selene, Laura, Fran, Scott, Daisy, Lyman, Donna

1. Format icons in Voyager test
They look great. The icons are based on the bib formats in the marc record. Some things though don't really have an image: gov docs, dissertations, generic online stuff. Titles that have both are tricky. Gov docs could be the book image?
Movie, audio, score—add these now
Leave books and journals unmarked until later when maybe we can do some changes in voyager marc records.

Daisy will make some sample Text It and LRA request buttons that look more like each other and not so much like the format icons.

2. Shibboleth
InCommon lists vendors who allow logins through Shibboleth so our users could be authenticated that way instead of VPN or ezproxy. That way the users don't have to come through the library to be authenticated—which is good because so many of them don't go through the library anyway. More secure because people won't be trying to enter their UVM id into username and password boxes where it doesn't belong, revealing their credentials to any non-uvm computer that asks.

3. New website issues
Articles and more part of the new web site is a possible area for usability testing, based on feedback that Selene's gotten from the Comments box.
More tutorials need to be written.
Libguides should refer to databases by the same names that are used in the Articles and more list of databases (and in Voyager as well). And should point to the bib record.
Logos on web site and libguides are the same. Logos on A to Z and linksource are different. Also Voyager. They should all be the same.

4. New site and handheld devices.
Viewing our web site on a handheld could be done using the style guide, but Lyman has no way to test it. He should speak to Peter B. about having the Libraries purchase an iPod Touch so he can test our systems on a handheld device.

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