LTSWeb Team Minutes, Aug. 17, 2004
Attending: Jim Alberts, Michal Jacyna, Margaret Nichols, Nate Rupp (chair)
Tech notes
Jim now has access to Dreamweaver.
Michal and Jim met the week of August 9 to introduce Jim to the TS Web site. They went
over the site?s file structure.
Michal will continue to develop his training procedure document and, when he?s done,
run it by the Team for its review.
Technical services integration
There was a discussion about what will happen to the TS Web Site in light of the
technical services integration efforts currently taking place throughout CUL. Some of the
areas on the TS Web Site that may be affected by these efforts include the pages on
acquisitions and cataloging and the technical services centers list. The maintenance team
will continue to monitor these efforts with an eye towards how they will affect the web
site. Nate will touch base with Karen from time to time about this issue and Margaret will
provide us with updates from the Integration Team, of which she is a member.
Technical services contact list
We thought that it would be a good idea to create a list of technical services contacts?
i.e., listing those responsible for map cataloging, serials cataloging, etc.?but tabled this
idea in light of the ongoing technical services integration efforts.
Restructuring A-Z
Michal talked about redesigning the A-Z section of the TS Web Site. It is currently on a
number of different pages, which prohibits keyword searching of the entire index. In
addition, he thought the alphabetic headings could be improved. We tabled this topic for
further discussion at a future meeting.
Search engine
Nate said he would soon talk to Paul Houle about experimenting with the Nutch search
engine on the web site. [Nate is waiting for Paul to confirm a meeting for Thursday,
September 2 to discuss Nutch.]
Standards/recommendations for TS unit web sites
We?ve encouraged the various TS units to design their own web sites and provided them
with a template as guidance, yet we need to better encourage them to ensure that their
web sites better reflect the look and feel of either their unit library?s web page or the TS
Web Site. Members of the Committee will work with those at their individual unit
libraries to ensure this happens.
New sections for the TS web site
Karen?s given us the go ahead for a section on the web site that will list presentations and
publications created by members of CUL Technical Services. Nate can get in touch with
David Banush to see how this part of the web site may tie in with the TS newsletter,
?Backstory,? in which David?s been recording TS presentations and publications.
Karen?s asked us to wait on designing sections for the Technical Services Executive
Group (TSEG) and the Working Group on Cataloging (WGC) because of TS integration
efforts.
I talked with Adam Chandler about the form that CTS has developed to enable staff
members to fill trouble reports with their PCs or software, and using that form for
?What?s New? submissions. He said that, generally speaking, it wouldn?t be a big deal to
modify the form for submitting items for ?What?s New? and sending them to someone
via email, but that enabling such a form to automatically update the web site with the
items (in reverse chronological order) would take quite a bit of programming. We?ll table
this discussion for now while we wait to see how many items we get for ?What?s New?
in the next few weeks. (While we received several ?What?s New? items over first couple
of weeks of the team?s existence, requests have died down since then.)