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Present: Maggie Bartley, Remlee Green (Chair), Bill HellmanHelman, Lisa Horowitz, Angie Locknar, Anita Perkins, Lisa Sweeney, Mark Szarko (Minutes), Barbara Williams
Guest: Patty Durisin Barbera
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The group discussed various aspects of the new design, including the use of text, various aspects of the navigation, additional links, and format options for the home page. After the Information Navigator is done, Patty is also working planning to work on the Barton Basics tutorial and updating the video tutorials, with the hope that everything will eventually be in one place.
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Definition of Reference: RUSA vs. ARL (Lisa Horowitz)
Lisa presented the group with 3 different definitions of reference from RUSA, ARL, and NCES. The definition we choose will help us to know what we're sampling when we take reference statistics and help us assess reference services. The group discussed all 3, but liked the simplicity of the RUSA definition. It was agreed to let the sub-group (Lisa H., Remlee Green, Bill HellmanHelman, Heather McCann) consider the discussion and then pick what they view to be the most appropriate definition.
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Text a Librarian (Lisa Horowitz)
Lisa described a recent demo of Text a Librarian, an inexpensive web-based product for supporting text message questions. The advantages of the product are that it looks very easy to use, allows multiple librarians to be logged in at one time, and offers a variety of notification methods. The biggest problem is that the recent survey data suggests that our users probably wouldndon't use itconsider texting to be a method they'd use to contact librarians. The group briefly discussed whether the staff time wouldn't would be better applied to other initiatives. Lisa will summarize the group's discussion for Steve.
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