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It's also based on the answers card-sorting partipants gave to "what are the top 3 things you come to the MIT Libraries website to do or find?" (highest Highest counts were for 1.finding e-resources, 2. looking up known items in Barton, 3. ILB (but they didn't call it that), 4. hours, 5. Barton Your Account features (renewals, holds, due dates, etc).
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Considerations:
A. Navbars follow you wherever you go (on most pages) and serve as useful, quick ways to get to frequently used pages.
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