User Interface Task Group Meeting Minutes

Minutes for September 5, 2006

1. Agenda Item: CPC Single Record Proposal for Cataloging of Electronic Journals
• Issues:
• Display of multiple record formats – CPC will address this
• Affect on migration – none
• Microforms will appear on the single record
• There will be no change in the display of local holdings
• Action:
• The UITG voted to support the proposal


2. Authorities
• Heidi reviewed the feedback received so far.
• Issues:
• Is usability testing possible before implementation? - Yes, there is a small test database set up already that can be used.
• Are breadcrumbs possible? – Heidi will investigate.
• Shortcut window – Do we want it? If so, what should be on it? The group appears to be leaning toward bypassing the shortcut and going directly to a browse search.
• How much granularity is possible? - not known as yet
• Actions:
• Continue to solicit feedback. We need to look at how to handle author title entries for prolific authors and to look at corporate names.


3. Items from ERIC II Task Group
1. Find It can now display multiple 856 URLS. A limit of 5 links can be set, but ITD feels that it is easiest for them to maintain 3 with a note to see the full record for more links. The limit in test is 3 links. This will be necessary primarily for government documents.
• Action: Since the test catalog was down during the meeting, Laura will email a link for testing
2. Laura discussed the Find It menus in the catalog and Researchport which currently are not the same.
• Action: Laura will make the Find It menu in the catalog via Research Port interface the same as the one in the catalog native interface.


4. Update Cataloging Interface Change Requests


• Statuses are recorded on the wiki. Several of the changes involve updating the same table, so Heidi will batch the suppression of 886, 022 $2, and relator codes into one message to the COI. Heidi also described some work that she is doing on displaying Publisher Numbers (028).


• Revision of the language for the journals subset has gone live.


5. Catalog Down message


• It was agreed that message created for the outage in August worked. Now we would to see periodic updates, even if the status has not changed, and some beautification.


6. September E-News


• Laura’s draft available on the wiki was accepted.