Minutes of April 21, 2005 Meeting

Present:

Bartz (Chair), Borisovets (Recorder), Calhoun, Haynes, Shepard, Warwick

A. In Progress/Under Investigation

1. Navigation bar on bottom of each search
   • Can't get all buttons to work properly.
   • Action: For this version, remove non-working buttons.
2. Basic search box on every IRIS screen
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
3. Add Mark/Unmark buttons to Call Number Search Hit List
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
4. Include a "New Books" option
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
5. In "My Account," provide a link to an anchor for each selection.
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
6. In "Reserves" create a dropdown box to search by Instructor, Course Name, or Course Number
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
7. In single item display, add an E-Zborrow link and note when all RUL copies are checked out
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
8. Add user-initiated bookings for media
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
9. Broadcast searching to multiple libraries
   • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
10. NetID login from within IRIS
    • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
11. Enable search history
    • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
12. Standardize capitalization
    • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation
13. In Call Number Search, make "Select a Library" the default in the drop-down box
    • Postponed-Return to after initial implementation

B. Warwick To Do

1. Reserve Desk
   1. Change "Reserve Desk" to "Reserves"
   2. Remove the Library pull-down menu
   3. Make the "Instructor," "Course Name," Course Number" buttons smaller
2. My Account
   1. Change (shorten) wording on "View my..."
   2. Left-justify columns
   3. Change "Review my IRIS Holds..." to "Review my IRIS Requests, Holds, and Recalls"
3. Library Info inset
   1. Relabel as "Library Information."
   2. Remove "Feed Back" option
4. Header black bar
   1. Move "Research Resources" to "Library Information" inset
   2. Add "Advanced Search" option
5. Header grey bar
   1. Add a little more space between "Help" and "Exit IRIS."
   2. Add a little more space before "Go Back"
6. "Details" and "Mark" buttons
   1. Eliminate the amount of black by making the buttons smaller.
7. Library drop-down list
   1. Change "Media Services" to "Media Center"
8. Advanced Search
   1. Change "pub year" to "publication year"
9. Change Display
   1. Change "Full" to "Default"
   2. Change "All" to "Complete"
10. Item display
    1. Unbold labels and bold bib record and MARC holdings
11. Page headers
    1. Put a couple of spaces in front of each header

C. Other To Do

1. Ask Judy to send out a message to RUL-Everyone explaining why she asked us to take the ILL link out of IRIS
2. Natalie will put a "What happened to ILL?" link on the AAL/FAQ pages as soon as iLink goes live and revise the FAQs
3. Stephanie will revise the IRIS Guide and Help screens text
4. Natalie will demo/report on the IRIS changes at the next Public Services meeting
5. Bob will call SIRSI to get an implementation date (will require at least 1/2 day downtime)

D. Next Meetings

May 5th, June 16th (May 19th meeting has been cancelled)
(Note: May 5th meeting was also subsequently cancelled)

nxb 4/26/2005, revised 6/17/2005