2017-09-13 Strategic Partners Meeting

Project Overview: Website-Blacklight Project Overview-et20170831.docx

• For the Blacklight side of things: some participants of the strategic partners may work directly with the development team on areas of expertise
  • Goes beyond advisory role into more active development role
  • Will depend on the needs of the current sprint
• Set to meet weekly or bi-weekly depending on the needs of the work
  • But we may be able to work via email/Confluence between meetings

Link to Sprints: Blacklight project: Sprint breakdown

• Hoping to get away from simply creating a replacement or equivalent to what we had in Millennium/Diamond/Summon and thinking more broadly about what we actually want and what will best serve our users.

Objective/Question: Determine which features/components of the website are of high priority importance to our users so that we can make sure to preserve these items for the future website.

Methods: After some discussion, we decided to create one set small set of questions that will be distributed to a broad range of library patrons through a variety of methods. 

We will use the User Testing page to collaborate and come up with the questions and the distribution points.

Timeline: Questions and distribution points should be defined and ready by September 29, 2017. Distribution will run for month of October.

• User Testing led by Rachel from Spring 2017 Spring 2017: User Testing Presentation
• Public Desk observations led by Nancy from January 2016 Copy of ObservationDataCompiled.xlsx
• Review of LibChat/LibAnswers for what patrons are looking for 
• One-on-one meetings with RIS Librarians by Emily from January 2017 /wiki/spaces/DIS/pages/16252940