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Networked Resources Redefinition Integration Group

Charge:

Reporting to the Library Gateway Committee, the Networked Resources Redefinition Implementation Group (NR-RIG) is charged to:

• Redesign the Networked Resources catalog to give more prominence to resources of significant reference or research value by excluding certain genres of material, most notably e-journals and e-books, from the public view of Networked Resources.
• Undertake a user study to determine current needs and behavior patterns of Networked Resources users before any significant redesign or redefinition is undertaken.
• Determine whether some type of separate listing or database of e-journals is needed either from the Library Gateway home page or from some intermediate "Networked Resources" index page and the resources that would be required to create and maintain such a list.
• Redesign the Networked Resources public interface to provide better visual cues to distinguish between those types of resources that will remain in the Networked Resources catalog;
• Redesign the Networked Resources browsable subject captions to provide more balanced access across disciplines to those types of resources remaining in the Networked Resources catalog.

Membership:

• David Block
• Nan Hyland, Chair
• Marty Kurth
• Holly Mistlebauer
• Maureen Morris

Minutes:

• August 3, 2001
• July 6, 2001
• June 29, 2001
• June 22, 2001
• June 8, 2001
• June 1, 2001
• May 25, 2001

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