E-mailAgenda:
1. User study - Usability Matters has been selected as the consultant.
a. Draft timeline - Statement of work, with timeline, to be provided by Usability Matters by March 3. Kick-off meeting will be Friday, March 7, 2-4pm.
b. Kick-off meeting - Purpose of this meeting is to come to a common understanding of our research objectives, giving Usability Matters enough information to draft research questions and methodology. We'll discuss what we'd like to know, what we think we already know from existing research, and identify the gaps. This week Martha will send an email to the Scholars Portal list telling people that the study is getting under way and inviting input into the questions to be answered; this email will refer people to the relevant pages of questions and readings on the group wiki. All PSAG members will solicit ideas at their institutions. Martha will invite several people from outside PSAG: someone from Laurentian; someone from TUG; Sally Wilson, Ryerson; Bill Denton, York. Alan Darnell and Kathy Scardellato will attend as well. Kate will arrange a meeting room and web access for those who can't come to Toronto.
c. Relation to BiblioCommons at Queen's - Queen's has contracted with BiblioCommons for implementation of an academic version of their service, currently in development. BiblioCommons will be conducting user reseach related to this development in March and May at Queen's. BiblioCommons is not planning research with other academic libraries at this time, as was proposed at Access 2007, given they now have this opportunity at Queen's. OCUL didn't ask BiblioCommons for a proposal for the OCUL user study, in order to ensure that the study is vendor neutral.
2. Updates on other subgroup activities - SFX survey to be posted on our menus is coming along; nothing new with RefWorks and RACER; user panel work awaits the hiring of a programmer on the Scholars Portal Operations Team.
3. PSAG first year debrief and report to SPOD for sharing with OCUL directors - Agreed that this sounds like a good idea, and we'll take a first stab at it following our meeting with Usability Matters on the 7th, and follow up with a conference call if necessary. This will feed into thoughts for the coming year; that planning will happen after new members join the group and new chair is appointed. All: Reflect before March 7th, and be prepared to meet for a while past 4pm, possibly in a comfortable establishment with refreshments.
4. Call for new members - Process will discussed at a SPOD conference call on March 3rd. There are several positions to fill on PSAG, and one on SPOD as well.
5. York proposal for an unconference with the theme of 'one big library' - PSAG agreed with the idea of promoting this event under the PSAG/OCUL umbrella. Stacy will flesh it out further with people at York and come back with specific suggestions for any support needed from PSAG. What is an unconference? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference and more on the concept here http://www.digital-web.com/articles/understanding_the_unconference/
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