Documentation Committee
Meeting Minutes
December 8, 2004
In attendance:
Ida Martinez (Co-Chair), Kizer Walker, Carmen Blankinship, Gail Steinhart, Amy
Blumenthal
Minutes: Ida Martinez
Announcements:
- This was Ida's last meeting
- Lynn is scheduled to rotate off the committee in February
- Committee needs to decide on new Co-chairs
- New Co-chairs should schedule a training session with Ida or Lynn to learn
how to manage the committee's Web site and the help pages
- Committee should ask IRPC to ask for volunteers (2) to join the committee
New Pages:
- Virginia Cole, on behalf of the Citation
Management Working Group, submitted a help page on citation management.
It was added to the main TOC under "Research Strategy and Process."
This page may need some editing so that its content is more parallel to the
information we provide on our EndNote
information page.
Updated Pages:
- Amy identified some help pages that provide a Telnet connection to the catalog.
She advised Ida to add wording to these pages indicating that the Telnet connections
are valid only from a Cornell IP address. The changes were made.
- Ida made the changes proposed at the last meeting for the MyLibrary page
(regarding MyDocument Delivery).
- Ida finished all her indexing for the help pages assigned to her. She also
has made some changes that Amy submitted for some of her assigned pages.
For future consideration:
- Update the Library Annex Requests help page and the Library-to-Library Book
Delivery page after the policies for requesting books from the Annex change
(CARMEN).
- Consider a major re-haul of the MyLibrary pages. (Amy has submitted some
observations on these pages. Ida will forward them to Lynn.)
- Consider making the titles/headings on the "Finding Specific Types
of Materials" pages parallel. (Currently, most say "Finding..."
but one says "Locating" and one says "Searching for...").
- Find Articles/Find Databases/Find eJournals (ENCompass) will get some interface
changes in the next month or so. Ed Weissman has asked the committee to appoint
a member to a working group (so that they can be informed about documentation
needs). All present members (excluding Ida, of course) were willing to be
on the working group. Committee should decide soon (by Dec. 15?) and let Ed
know who will be on the working group.
- Kizer, Gail, and Lynn submitted some FA/FD/FeJ edited pages. These changes
will be held until the new version of ENCompass is installed and any new documentation
needs are assessed.
Next meeting:
TBD