Attendance: Kathy Chiang (note taker), Deb Schmidle, Nan Hyland, Adam Chandler, Melissa Kuo, Linda Miller, Maureen Morris, Bonna Boettcher

Review of tests so far
3 people, all encountered the same problem spot but took 3 different approaches to a solution.

Adam and Melissa will see if there is an automated way to handle volunteer sign ups. Linda said the manual process (now that she has worked the bugs out) is not too time consuming.

If the subject today is a 'no-show' Linda will recruit two more subjects for next week.

By next meeting we should have clarification on what records we need to keep on payments to subjects. Deb will clarify with Mary A.

Kathy will work with Holly to set up a password protected Administrative and Test Note area on this site.
Kathy will check in with Anne on the status of the LMT 'approval' and the funding.

We talked about CUL personnel trends in supporting assessment and usability work and briefly reviewed the ARL report.

Assessment could be divided into two parts: the data collection and analysis from existing sources (automated data generation like use logs); and custom data collection for specific goals or projects (like a survey of a college for facilities information.)

The latter type could probably be imbedded into our organization much as we are doing for usability. Any project or goal would need an assessment program. The A&U group could develop something (unless we found a parallel to the usability.gov site!) to support CUL staff doing assessment, and the site could serve as the archive for the results.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA for 9/28/06 meeting

1) Review test notes
2) Discuss, generate recommendations for system changes
3) Draft the procedure for testing, based on our experience with this cycle.
4) Start up an outline of a report to PSEC.
5) Review automated signup options.