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Minutes

March 11, 2002

Present: Lance Heidig, Rick Lightbody, Maureen Morris, Michael Engle, Carrie Benedict, Carla DeMello

We will have a meeting every other Monday from 10 to 11am starting the 11th. The next meeting will be March 25th.

We discussed what it means to have a Common Look and Feel for all units and Libraries under IRIS.

Common features on all pages should be:
Footer
IRIS return
CUL return
Consistent treatment among libraries
Visual identity
Web sophistication

Michael sent guidelines for xhtml compliance. We need to be in compliance with ADA, Cornell, IRIS, and XML.

Carla distributed Dreamweaver site licenses to those of the CLF task force who will be actively working together on the IRIS pages.

Carla, Maureen, and Lance will come up with some initial designs in time for our March 25th meeting.

We want to match http://www.washington.edu/ particularly in the research area because of Cornell/U of Washington reference collaboration. This idea came up when we were talking about models for web pages. We noted that we liked a lot of what the University of Washington had done and that an added benefit would be that similarity would make it easier for assisting each other's patrons. Really the benefits are more for the staff involved in chat reference rather than the patrons. UW patrons are directed to UW pages and Cornell to Cornell so they are not flipping between interfaces. We weren't thinking of strictly matching their website but rather using some of the elements that would make sense for CUL.

Lance, Michael, and Maureen will review all of the individual sites and come up with a list of issues for the purpose of common appearance and understanding site structure.

Craig will take photos of individual staff and will supply some illustrations for an iris by any other name.

We discussed how the current library logo (below) probably grew from print materials (specifically the University letterhead) but did not transfer well to Web or graphic design form. We wondered how set-in-stone it was as Maureen, a member of the Gateway Redesign Committee, had not seen it or heard that it was official.

We will also need to discuss CLF for products other than Web sites.

--CD