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Assessment and Usability Committee Committee Meeting March 2, 2006 5:22 PM Mann Library 361 Agenda:
Minutes: Brainstorm session following the Brenda Reeb, Dave Lindahl workshop on User Centered Design Do we want to make a proposal to PSEC/LMT regarding usability? What would such a model look like at CUL. People likely have very different ideas of what that would be. One thing we could do would be to encourage a usability lifecycle for TNG gateway and encourage unit libraries to use it in their projects. There is a lot of interest on campus for this. The workshop created a lot of buzz. We don’t think that Brenda Reeb and David Lindahl are going to be doing this workshop again at ALA. It is the responsibility of the committee to promote the idea throughout campus. What could we ask for in a proposal?:
What then? What is a tangible expression of the good of doing usability? Two projects that could use it: The Integrated Framework team’s user and usability group. The Access services web site team For the proposal, we could: Define the Problem, why it’s important, here’s a method, come up with a plan. We should come up with an administrative model independent of the projects that the model would be applied to. We might be able to come up with a “kit” for people who want to do usability Workshop – knowledge – list of steps How to recruit? – could one person, group or administrative unit handle recruiting? That would give infrastructural continuity Kathy: Could the office of research help? Nancy: we need to have people all over who can do this. It could be an anchor to help but things would also need to be distributed so that the centralization doesn't create a bottleneck. If we do a proposal – we’re discussing usability vs. user assessment. Kathy’s Guild idea: she is going to write this up and send it to us. Designers – we don’t really have people whose main function is the design. The skill sets might be there but there has been a lot of “design by committee”. The model helps to avoid the programmer driving the whole project. There was discussion about whether the programmer and the designer are the same person – it could be that they work in the same office but they are distinct roles. Someone asked whether these are skills we should bring to the #9 innovation group?: Usability skills, content skills, design skill. We have the skills already but sometimes the ways that committees are put together, we don’t take on the specific roles There’s a process; the process applies to all projects; There is an educational piece to the proposal – to get buy-in. The design of key tasks for the content group– this needs to be done correctly. Need a level of knowledge and education. If some people from the workshop that have a project coming up – explain a “dream team” to do the project. We might be able to do education via case studies. Blurring of the roles can be a problem. If someone takes on all roles, it can be problematic. Is there a small-scale grass-roots project that we could use as a model? Look for people to do the content, usability, design etc from people with the skills rather than what library they're at. A class every semester for: Usability Content Design Brown Bag March 15 (has since been changed to the 16th via email) Focus on the workshop and people who were there Kathy will ask Anne about $$ for beverages Melissa will draft the invitations Kathy will send a special invite – but run it by Janet first Nan will emcee the brown-bag We need the elevator summary of the workshop that we’ll send to potential attendees – what do we really mean by usability? Possible admins structure support and a container of what usability is and isn’t Questions: What do you think we need at CUL? Who would be interested in filling these roles? What projects are out there now that could use the model? Blog Melissa demo’d the blog http://usbability.library.cornell.edu People can post anonymously We should all have accounts We want to create accounts for everyone who was at the usability workshops Our Log-in is our net-ids and the password is: your first initial with last name We won’t have a meeting before the brownbag. | ||
