PIC SubCommittee on SFX Menu Redesign
Meeting date: May 31, 2005
Attending: Dale Askey, Katie Bauer, Karen Reardon, Daniel Dollar, Jan Glover, Tao Yang

Notes:

1. Logo Redesign: Decision was made to drop 'SFX' from the Yale SFX Links graphic. Katie will talk with Meg about funds to have a professional designer create a new version of the graphic. It will be important to remember to design the logo so that it can fit into various database layouts as some tend to squash it now. 18 and 25 pixel versions should be generated so we can check it for legibility. We would like to see a version with the word 'Links' in mixed case.
2. Colors for the new menu: We will keep the current color scheme as there has been no negative feedback about it and it was agreed we need to keep the look simple and clean. Katie will investigate ways to highlight the Title and Source information in the V3 menus.
3. Possible new SFX services to be included:

   a. We discussed the issue of groupings in the new menu design. It was agreed that we need to highlight and display services most users want and make it easy to quickly get to the resource.

   b. The 'top four' services were defined as: show full text, search online journals, search Orbis and request via ILL. Order of these item still to be determined.

   c. Katie will investigate the possibility to display the 'top four' services at the top of the menu without the need for a grouping. Other services might then be included in groupings below these top services.

   d. No decision was made regarding the desire to show all possible services (such as Google and Image lookup) and the desire of the readers to just find the materials.

Action items:

1. Review SFX 3.0 menus (URL's below) for style/look.
2. Ponder other services to be included.
3. Consider ordering of the 'top four' services.

Next meeting: June 9th at 11:00 - CCL Experimental Space (Note Meeting location change - we can use the SmartBoard in the CCL Space)

MIT Menu
http://owens.mit.edu:8888/sfx_local?genre=article&atitle=TEPSS%20-%20Technology%20enhancement%20for%20passive%20safety%20systems%20%0Dof%20Online%20Catalogs&title=NUCLEAR-ENGINEERING-AND-DESIGN&issn=0029-5493&date=2001&volume=209&issue=1-3&spage=243&aulast=Matthews&aufirst=Joseph&auinit=R http://owens.mit.edu:8888/sfx_local?genre=article&atitle=TEPSS%20-%20Technology%20enhancement%20for%20passive%20safety%20systems%20%0Dof%20Online%20Catalogs&title=NUCLEAR-ENGINEERING-AND-DESIGN&issn=0029-5493&date=2001&volume=209&issue=1-3&spage=243&aulast=Matthews&aufirst=Joseph&auinit=R

Iowa
http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu:8080/sfx_local?sid=Entrez:PubMed&id=pmid:11306571

Boston College
http://metaquest.bc.edu:4000/sfx_local?sid=CSA:psycinfo-set-c&pid=%3cAN%3e2003%2d04448%2d005%3c%2fAN%3e%26%3cPB%3eJohn%2BWiley%2B%26%2BSons%2c%2BUnited%2BKingdom%2c%2B%5bURL%3ahttp%3a%2f%2fwww%2ewiley%2ecom%5d%3c%2fPB%3e%26%3cAU%3eFinger%2c%2BKimberly%3c%2fAU%3e&id=doi%3A10.1002%2Facp.922&issn=0888-4080&date=2002&volume=16&issue=8&spage=887&epage=896&genre=article&aulast=Finger&aufirst=Kimberly&title=Applied%2BCognitive%2BPsychology&atitle=Mazes%2Band%2Bmusic%3a%2BUsing%2Bperceptual%2Bprocessing%2Bto%2Brelease%2Bverbal%2Bovershadowing

Out of the box SFX version 3 menu
http://sfx.library.yale.edu:3210/sfx_test?ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2005-5-31T9%3A27%3A44EDT&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsfx.library.yale.edu%3A3210%2Fsfx_test&rft.genre=article&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F15857430+&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Asch_svc&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%3Afmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004

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