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Agenda
20 min: LibGuides 2 home page
10 min: General Research Tools box
10 min: Known issues list
10 min: Remaining Tasks
Minutes
Decisions:
Remove the "Alphabetical" / "Most popular" pull-down from the home page
Insert some explanatory text as to what the guides are and what they're for into the home page
Ask Emily what to call "Using Sources"
Rename General Research Tools' "Citation Management" to "Citation Tools", make change in LibGuide as well
Get all databases to open in a new tab/window
Discussion:
Home page
Can we override the home page and insert the guide list as a widget?
No, the guide list isn't a widget.
Pull-down for "Alphabetical" / "Most popular": Get rid of it
Some explanatory text about what the guides are and what they're for?
"Find research guides created by Yale University Library Staff. Browse through the categories below." -- from Cornell University
Keep Databases A-Z
General Research Tools
"Using Sources" -- call it Citing and Using Sources?
Emily wants it for undergraduates
Contact Emily and find out what she'd like to call it from an undergraduate perspective
"Citation Management" guide is called "Citation Tools" in the YUL header "Services" pull-down main menu
Should the name of the guide and the General Research Tools box link change?
Yes.
Known issues
Would prefer that Databases open in a new tab