2017-09-27 - Strategic Partners Group

10:04

User Testing - Questions

Cynthia 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

10:42

Meeting schedule, time commitment

All

• 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

10:47

Blacklight Update

Emily 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.

11:01

Open Forums Scheduling

Emily and Jackie

• Emily will chat with Jackie to figure out some general availability