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2017-09-27 - Strategic Partners Group

2017-09-27 - Strategic Partners Group

Owned by Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 10, 2017

Date

Attendees

Goals

  • Review the user survey 
    • Finalize questions and distribution methods
    • Please add your comments here: User Testing
  • Review meeting schedule, time commitment and ways to engage online without meeting
  • Update on status of Blacklight development process, including a look at our current prototype and discussion, if time permits
    • Prior to the meeting, take a look at the site: http://libqa.library.temple.edu/catalog (must be connected via ethernet to Temple network to access). Note: This is a work in progress, so not all functionality has been built yet.
  • Review suggested dates for staff open forums

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
10:04User Testing - QuestionsCynthia et al
  • Support broader concepts/functionality to rank as people have trouble coming up with answers to open ended questions
  • Research Question: What are the top areas of the website that users use or need? 
    • We could use this information specifically for what we include on the homepage. 
  • Question: "Please rank five services that are important to you in the library website..." - see comment on User Testing
    • What are those five things that we are going to 
    • Homework assignment: Each person come up with 10 things and send to Cynthia by Monday at 10:00AM in an email to Cynthia
  • Question: Self-identify user group (Faculty, library staff, university staff, student, community, non-temple academic researcher)
  • Question: If the library website could focus on one goal or task, what would you want it to be?
  • Question: Any other thoughts or feedback about the library website?
 10:26 User Testing - Distribution Points All
  •  Pilot with library student workers
  • Google Form - distribute library staff 
  • Google Form - create a pop-up on the computers when patrons login - Talk to Jim - can collect IP address
  • Google/Drupal Form - something on the website - add a tab somewhere on the form - Talk to Chris
10:42Meeting schedule, time commitmentAll
  • Add deadlines for online collaboration
  • Move meeting to a monthly meeting
  • Link to Google Doc for the working group 
  • Keep the meeting bi-weekly and send out a detailed agenda and group members can decide whether or not they need to attend
10:47Blacklight UpdateEmily et al
  • Two week sprints for development
    • We've gone through three sprint cycles and this week started the fourth
    • Focused on basic foundational pieces for record displays and search (basic and advanced)
    • Exporting records from Alma and publishing in BL - new routines, etc.
  • Link to current prototype - http://libqa.library.temple.edu/catalog 
    • Connect via ethernet on campus or VPN
    • *Site will be slow because of development environment
    • Highlights: 
      • Availability components - creating a proof of concept - most replicates what we've set up in Primo
        • All of the configuration that we've done in Alma will continue to be available in BL - i.e. requesting and availability
      • Setting up basic integrations between Blacklight and Alma for publishing 
    • Any initial impressions or feedback with what is available now
    • Feedback from RIS librarians - distinction between resource types (i.e. physical vs. electronic, ebooks, vs. book reviews, etc)
      • Therefore we should be careful with the wording
      • **could be a good quesiton for users: terminology in facets and search results**
  • We could also take subject areas and create facets based on those
  • Provide feedback to Emily
  • We will eventually pull individual people into the sprint cycles for upcoming sprints
  • Have we abandoned the bento box?? No! - the current sprint is the bento box. Right now we've only bee thinking about the catalog, but we will be bringing in the other resources shortly.
11:01Open Forums SchedulingEmily and Jackie
  • Emily will chat with Jackie to figure out some general availability

Action items

  • Everyone will provide list of 10 "things" that we want to include in the question about ranking top services/features that patrons use on the website
  • Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will check with Jim about putting a pop-up on the computer lab computers
  • Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will talk with Chris about creating a Drupal form to include on the website
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