These drafts are based on input from our Sept. card-sorting survey, looking at some peer institutions, and knowledge of our own services and what the Libraries want and need to promote.
It's also based on the answers people gave to "what are the top 3 things you come to the MIT Libraries website to do or find?"
Navbar draft 1
Search | Locations/Hours | Borrow/Request | Research Support | Recommended Tools | About Us
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Search | Locations/Hours | Using the Libraries | Help | Recommended Tools | About Us
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Discussion - from 10/1/2012 meeting: NH, SH, LH
Areas of agreement:
1. We agree that there needs to be a Search category. Later it may become a "discovery" search box that gets embedded into the top of pages. For now it could have a drop-down nav with names similar to our home page search box tabs.
2. We agree that there needs to be a Locations/Hours category. It will contain links to each library location and hours, and also links to info about visiting non-MIT libraries, study spaces, and all things involving the use of our physical spaces.
3. We agree that there needs to be an About Us category. This is something people come to expect on every site and can hold all the general information that doesn't fit into other categories, such as staff directories, jobs, giving, etc.
Areas we're not sure about: