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              LOUISiana Digital Library Advisory Meeting
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Presbytere, New Orleans, LA
The LDL Advisory committee meeting began at 9:30 at the Louisiana State Museum in the Presbytere, New
Orleans, March 13, 2007.
Members present: Ralph Boe, Gina Costello, John Guillory, Molly Knapp, Trish Nugent, Chuck Patch, Jeff
Rubin, Pati Threatt, ZeeZee Zamin, Sara Zimmerman, Angela Proctor (via phone), Mike Rosebery (via
phone)
Old Business
1. Comments about the draft LDL interface sent out by John and suggestions for revision.
Many aspects of the draft LDL interface were discussed. Ultimately, the following revisions were decided:
Top menu bar (blue)
• “Collections” will be replaced with “Home” & return to the “LDL Home” screen
• “About” will replace “Viewers”. “Viewers” will be relocated to “Help” section
Side menu bar (gold)
• “Browse Collections By” will move to beige menu area for visibility
• “About LDL” will be renamed “LDL Home”
• “List by Subject” will be changed to “Browse Subject Terms”
Font size for ‘white space’ area will be increased.
“LDL Home” vs. “About” page
Some confusion surrounds these two pages. “LDL Home” is the first page users will see when they arrive at
the LDL site. It will contain a brief description of the Louisiana Digital Library (‘state-wide resource’, etc)
as well as information on ‘how to use this site’. The “About” page will contain detailed information about
LOUIS, the history of the LDL, and LDL participating institutions.
Suggestions for the “About” page content & design include: institutional logos that link to their websites,
contact information for each institution, description of institution. Gina will create content for “LDL Home”
& “About”. Jeff will work on the ‘how to use this site’ portion. Both agreed to get this to LOUIS by the
week of March 19th.
A live draft of the interface should be put on the training server by the end of April, after the Cdm upgrade.
Further refinement will be necessary, and it is proposed to conduct a post-launch survey similar to Gina’s in
order to figure out what users really need.
2. Discussion of the launch and promotion of the new LDL interface.
A soft launch of the new interface is expected for Summer 2007. This is a significant update – the first
change to the homepage in five years. Promotion is necessary.
Ideas for LDL promotion:
• Announcement on distribution lists: Cdm, school librarians, etc
• Promotion via genealogy resources: blogs, news outlets
• Press release for the Times-Picayune, Baton Rouge Advocate etc.
• Submit for feature piece on Dimema’s website
• Article for Louisiana Libraries, Investigate newsletter
• Bookmarks (Gina)
• Exhibit at conferences (2008 - 2009)
• Louisiana Teachers’ Conference ??