Gov Pubs Dept. Meeting Minutes for 1-20-10

I. Web: Proposal for Redesigned A-Z List

Salem presented her mockup of a redesigned Subject Guide A-Z List on the Government Publications Library home page and asked for feedback. It was agreed that the mockup, with A-Z anchors and cross references, would be implemented along with the following changes to the Gov. Pubs. home page:

• Overarching general subject guide categories, currently listed under Subject Guides/A-Z List of Guides, will be folded into the A-Z List. These subject terms will link to the subject web pages that currently exist.
• Home page will be updated so that the "Subject Guides" and "Databases" sides have more similar formats. "Using Our Collections" and "Library Catalogs" will be placed in separate rows underneath and will span the entire width of the "Subject Guides" and "Databases" sections.
  
• Salem has more detailed notes if anyone would like to see more details on this planned update.

II. Peggy's Announcements

• Commons Scheduling: There has not been an official announcement about this, but the Desk Management Group has agreed that the Research Desk laptop cart will be moved down to the Commons after the printer currently in the middle of the Commons laptop carts is moved. Libraries staff will no longer be scheduled on the Commons desk starting on February 1.
• Weekend Desk Scheduling: Jennifer K. has been training Adam White on the Research Desk. Once he is trained, he wants to start staffing the Research Desk once every weekend, so this takes care of some of our scheduling questions regarding weekends.
• Late-Night Library Presence in Commons: Yet to be determined.

III. Andriot in Ready Reference

Peggy asked if we should put a copy of the Guide to U.S. Government Publications ("Andriot") in Ready Reference on the Research Floor. We decided not to do this.


IV. Related Searches in Encore

Jennie demonstrated how to find cross-referenced bibliographic terms in Chinook when using the Encore interface (the equivalent in Chinook classic would be the "See . . . . . . . . " references).
Directly below the Search box on the Encore results page is an "Explore Related Searches" link with a molecule-like icon next to it. Click on this to see related terms (which appear at the bottom of the web page in list form and tag cloud form).


Minutes submitted by Salem Martin