Minutes
Attending: Patricia O'Neill (chair), Susan Barnes, Carmen Blankenship, Michael Engle, Jill Powell, Nancy Skipper, Meryl White (recorder)
Patricia talked about the new logo for the Cornell University Library and showed us some examples of it on stationery. Each library will be able to work with a designer to develop a library-specific logo that fits in the framework of the Cornell University Library design. The library logos will then be used in the new banner graphic to top libraries' home pages. We need to redesign the footer buttons to incorporate the new logo. We also need the logo in a variety of sizes.
Patricia spoke with Catherine Murray-Rust about this committee reviewing sites. The policy has not changed. Our purpose is to support web designers in the libraries. To that end, we will review any sites that would like our suggestions. We developed our guidelines so that web pages and sites are easy to use and understand. The guidelines were also developed so that we can continue to serve the lowest common denominator client.
So far we reviewed Africana, Geneva, Preservation/Conservation, Management, Music, O*K*U Division of Reference Services, and Physical Sciences. About half our committee members are at libraries who do not plan to move to the Library server. Mann is working to incorporate the minimum guidelines. Engineering, Fine Arts, and ILR hope to be ready for review in January. Patricia will contact those libraries we have not reviewed (CISER, Hotel, Law, Medical School Library, Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection, and Rare & Manuscripts), to see if they would like their sites reviewed by the design committee.
We reviewed the Math Library site. We liked the clarity and consistency of the site. In particular, we like the annotations to the links. We thought the E Journals page should also have a linke to the CUL E Journals page. Barbara was going to check the pages in lynx and get back to the Math Library. Michael was going to check on the image link to "How to Find Us."
Tony has posted a test CUL homepage with a circulation services section on the top that has with links to the renewal, manual renewal and recall forms. He worked with Carmen on the forms and they will be available soon.
In looking for our guidelines, we realized they are hard to find. We asked Michael to move them to the section on the CUL server titled Information About Cornell University Library. We thought it could have a listing for Committees, and we could have our committee listed as well as others that have web pages.
We also thought that Tony should re-organize the Library WWW Servers link. There is no distinction between libraries, departments or collections. We thought some kind of hierarchical listing would help.
NEXT MEETING: Dec.3: Review the Literature Page
Meryl White
Posted December 2, 1996
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