2020-09-11 EUOS-SC

Check-in / Any new items that has come up over the week

Work plan

Decision Pages

Graphic Designer:

• UCD has proposed Kimmy Hescock for the graphic designer role. What are our next steps?

  • Do we want to talk to Kimmy? Or do full interviews? etc.

  • We want to make sure they’re a good fit

  • We want to make sure that there’s a chance for all campuses to participate (as much as appropriate).

• It’s important to bring in whoever we’re going to bring in earlier rather than later.

  • They will be creating a consistent message - which means we need to be consistent in our understanding.

• “Branding” in this case means different things to other teams (i.e. Discovery)

  • We need to communicate to users what we call our services.

• When we talk about “SILS” we’re talking about the project, but end user doesn’t care about that. We care about the persistent service: what are we going to call it?

  • They have a service that they conflate with ILL and looking for stuff outside of their local catalog: Melvyl.

  • Both a fulfillment service and discovery tool - if that tool is going away, we need to fill that gap.

• What services will persist, and what are they called?

  • Questions from EUOS

  • Searching inside the UCs: Alma/Primo (in some format)

  • Searching outside the UCs: how do we do this if we’re getting rid of WorldCat

Website

• Designed to be a canonical home for history of the project and announcements made.

  • Doesn’t function the way we want for faculty or patrons

• How much control will we have over the section we’ve been given?

  • Whose page is this? Who do we ask?

  • Graphic / visual identity

  • What information will be shared? What is our end user actually going to see?

• Melanie and Stacy will work on Job Description with Donald, then PDF it and get it to Donald for DOC distribution.
• Stacy, Melanie, and Donald determine deadline for feedback & nominations from DOC
• Neil Weingarten Follow up on an email from SILS website to Melanie (try mramiro@ucr.edu address)
• Neil Weingarten to reach out to CDL about a test site for the website for playing / learning. Also asking - what is the extent our ability to edit the page?

Meeting with Donald

Donald wants to meet to discuss potential strategies around topics from the WG meeting.

NOTES from Monday:

• Donald suggested a decision page for a brand identity for the resource sharing service / SILS going forward

  • e.g. Summit (OCA brand)

  • vs. UAlbany / SUNY example

• Who has the authority to approve something like that?

  • Working Group but needs to go out as well

• Who has the authority to start the recommendation?

  • EUOS

• How do we know which services to include?

  • Another way to ask is: what is the scope of what needs “brand identity”?

• What is the brand promise?

• Is EUOS the right place for that work?

Parking Lot