1. New Library Gateway and updating Help
Kornelia discussed the new/interim procedures for maintaining the help pages now that GRIT has taken over management of most of the Library Gateway. There is no longer a Test Gateway/Server separate from the Production server. Any changes/updates are made on the actual Production Gateway and pages are currently being updated using the Dreamweaver HTML editor. Kornelia has access to the server and has been able to transfer/FTP pages as necessary. At this stage it is preferable that only one or two people from the Documentation Committee have this responsibility. The Committee does not currently have access to the MakeKeywordIndex, Makepage and the Manifest files. Holly Mistlebauer and John Cline are in the process of investigating some of this and Kornelia will keep the group posted as things develop.

2. Recent Updates: Footer; MyLibrary; Retain Searches catalog button; Canned searches
Kornelia reported that:
· Updates to the Gateway/Help Footer have been made thanks to John Cline.
· There are still issues with the metadata for the MyLibrary-MyUpdates/current awareness page that should be fixed when the MakeKeywordIndex and Manifest file can be updated.
· Per Michael Engle's request, additional information on retaining marked records on title searches pages, has been added to
http://ivy.mannlib.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_tools/catalog/print.html

Jaime demo'd the new changes to the "course reserve search" portion of the Canned Searches page. She has created a static page that demonstrates the course reserve search function.

3. Items/Pages in process: Browser/Configuration (Lee); Problem reporting form; Ask a Librarian; cookies (KT); Print Documentation (Mary)

· Lee commented on the developments for the Browser help pages. The Gateway and Grit committees have indicated that it is fine to remove Help Pages for older browsers that are no longer available or commonly in use. Lee will modify the existing Browser and Telnet Help pages to reflect this. The revised listings will cover browsers version forward of Netscape 4.x and MSIE 5.x and will include the updates from Holly M's recent list of "known problems".
· John Cline is working on implementing updates to the Problem reporting form.
· The main Ask-a-Librarian page has been linked to the Help Index.
· Kornelia reviewed the wording changes to the "How are Cookies enabled" text on the Cookies page.
· Mary handed out copies of the print documentation folder contents from the Copy Center in Olin. The group reviewed the pages in order to identify necessary changes and updates. Jaime agreed to work on updating the APA Citation Style page. Mihoko agreed to work on the MLA Citation Style page. Thad will work on updating the Finding Articles from Periodicals-FAQ. Kornelia will work on the Library Catalog Quickguide. Mary will work on making updates to the eReference Collection Quickguide. She will also check the Print Documentation Diskette and the Engineering reference computer for Word and other formats of these documents. Kornelia will notify Maureen on that the CUL Bookmark needs to be updated and ask for suggestions from the GRIT group.

4. New requests:

The group reviewed a variety of recent requests/developments for documentation pages:
· Netscape 6.2- Holly M. and John C. have identified setting that will allow Netscape 6.2 to work with the Library Gateway and Proxy server, but are waiting to hear form CIT before moving forward.
· Index to Help, help link in breadcrumb trail-Kornelia reports of broken links within the Help index and navigation feature. Some of these have already been repaired but Lee will run another Broken Link report
· Netscape 7 and IE 6. We decided to review those at our next meeting.
· Header ('Launch Help: In Separate Window or In Right-hand Frame'-- will be fixed by ITS
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5. Misc.
The Committee is still waiting for updates from IRPC regarding a new member appointment and Committee terms of service.

Next Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday October 9th, 2002 in Mann Library rm. 260 from 2-3pm