| 10min | State of the Wayfinding Committee - Quick overview of original plan and wiki
- What we have so far (Inventory and info from informal meetings)
- Organization of and coordination (Box, wiki, slack?)
| Autumn | - Wayfinding committee picking up from previous work from a year ago
- Previous projects located in Box folder
- All things on old Wiki page is in the new Box folder
- Signage inventory completed; Autumn created index organized by in use, types of signs, etc.
- Leadership of this has changed due to vacancy in Building Manager position
- Wayfinding committee to take over leadership on new signs, picking designs and locations, etc.
- Proposal needs to be submitted to LAMP to change permanent signage
- To do: usability testing to determine where visitors are looking for things, where visitors are getting lost
- To do: figure out if we design in house or if we consult with external firm for designs
- Projects
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| 1hr | How do we want to proceed? - Gathering as much information as possible
- Holistic vs. stages
- In-house vs. consultant (or combination)
- How do we identify 'bump points'?
- Where do we draw design ideas from?
- Workflow (survey/information gathering, design ideas, design creation, proposal submission, actual replacement of signage)
| Group Discussion | - Regarding signage -
- questions about budget - how much can we change
- reach out to other libraries regarding how they addressed their space issue re: funding
- Kaitlin volunteered to help with grant writing
- Autumn to work with LEAD to gather resources for investigation
- Address low hanging fruit first - bad signs, sticky notes, etc.
- Three major forces - admin/LAMP, building manager and LEAD, and Dan Moret for marketing/approval
- Questions that we want to answer with data, and ideas to collect data.
- What are the experiences of other libraries that can help us?
- Contact other libraries.
- Published articles
- What are the "bump points" experienced by library users?
- Information in LibAnalytics. All questions at the reference desk are recorded there for one week each month.
- Surveys to library users
- Surveys to reference desk staff
- What is the most useful design?
- Experiment with the temporary informational, directional, and policy signage.
- Assessment.
- Experiment with prototypes of signs to see if they work
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