Communications Committee April 3, 2008 Attending: Suellen Stringer-Hye, Celia Walker, Sue Erickson, Angel Craddock, Robyn Harris, Paula Covington, and Henry Shipman.
AGENDA
1. Status of committee and inter-committee communications such as wiki, shared directories:
The documents for the committee will be moved to a new folder, from the G:/everyone/communications directory to the G:/communications directory.
Angel will bring a print out of the Communications Committee Wiki page to the next meeting and make recommendations for updates or changes.
Agendas and minutes for many library committees have not consistently been posted to the Staff News. A reminder will be sent to committee chairs to do this.
We will consider writing an article for the Staff News about committee work and how to use the Committee Wiki to find information about committee activities.
2. Ticker Status :
Celia will add the Art Installation and Suellen will add an item about the Robert Penn Warren database of audio interviews for his Who Speaks for the Negro book.
3. Status of other internal and external news channels such as blogs, Staffweb:
Suellen explained that our goal will be to move away from Sitemason for the public web ticker. The current ticker is being generated from Sitemason and so there are limitations as to what we can do with the RSS feed. The ideal would be to use the Library News Online Blog to generate the RSS feed that populates the ticker. This would allow us to better archive old articles and not have to reproduce them in two places. Ultimately it would be ideal to have a single point of entry for all library news items both for staff and for the public but this is an even bigger undertaking so we may need to take the intermediate step outlined above.
4. Status of Marketing Plan :
We will continue with the Marketing Plan subgroup for now. Any committee members are welcome to join. At the next meeting, this subgroup will decide what actions to take next and will report back to the main committee via E-mail.
The plastic bags we’ve used for rainy days will be depleted by the end of summer. We need to make a decision about the design and type of bags we want by next fall.
5. Status of Discovery Library logo : The tree will be removed from the text part of the Discovery Logo since the text cannot be trademarked with an embedded graphic. Suellen will meet with Creative Services and the Trademark office to get clarification on what is and isn’t acceptable use of the tree graphic. If possible, we want to use the tree as a watermark or background image in the background of the search box. Any design of this sort will be sent to the committee for approval.
6. Year end report preparation The report will contain this past year’s accomplishments and future goals. Celia and Suellen will work on a draft for our next meeting.
Future goals include:
7. Suggestions for incorporating news/marketing for Commons: