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- input from our Sept. card-sorting survey
- looking at some peer institutions
- knowledge of our own services and what the Libraries want to promote.
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 counts were for 1.finding e-resources, 2. looking up known items in Barton, 3. requesting items from other libraries, 4. hours, 5. Barton Your Account features (renewals, holds, due dates, etc).
Card-sorting results:
Results were all over the map with many different ideas, names and solutions for grouping much of the info on our site. Our 40 users came up with over 200 different category names! There was conceptual agreement of a sort around 3 areas: (search/find/catalogs), (library locations & hours), and (about us/general info). There was not a lot of agreement about all of our guides and help and other services, such as publishing, video support, etc.
We also asked them: "what are the top 3 things you come to the MIT Libraries website to do or find?" Highest counts were for:
- finding e-resources
- looking up known items in Barton
- requesting items from other libraries
- hours
- 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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