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If you're bored or trying to procrastinate, and feel like helping me in some preliminary research for the library's web page, then read on. I'm going to be applying this test to actual users of our library later this summer, but I'm thinking that getting some feedback now will help me structure the usability test. Or help me procrastinate.
This is going to be part of the usability test called a card-sort, or 'clustering and labelling' test. I've got a list of all the various forms, pages, links, etc on the library's website, and I'd like you to have a look at them, and sort them into groups that you think are connected - this will help me restructure the site into categories that make a more intuitive sense, because I have a sneaking suspicion that the current categories make more sense to librarians that patrons. I have also probably committed a Grievous Research Error and biased you in saying that up front, but you're all smart enough to realize that I think there's a problem with the organization as is, or I wouldn't be bothering with this. :)
Guidelines
--There's no right or wrong placement, of course.
--I'm not going to give you category labels, because I want to see what you associate these things with.
--Feel free to put an item in more than one category. That's the magic of the Internet: I can link to one page from several places in the menu. :)
--If you don't understand what an item is, please mention it. Some of them will makse sense to students and faculty at this school and not to outsiders, so I don't expect you to know them - I've tried to provide a bit of explanation on those. Others are, I think, obscure to anyone but the librarians here, and I need to know which ones those are, so I can rename them for the actual test, and for the page itself when I get around to recoding it later this summer.
--I dunno if your replies will fit in the LJ reply boxes; feel free to email them to telophase14 at gmail dot com. If you want to do it on a textfile or Word doc and attach it to an email, that's fine too. Obvisouly, this is sort of awkward online: in the actual test, I'll write them on index cards and have the test-takers physically stack them.
--Thank you!!
Da List o'Links o'Doom
Ask A Librarian
Comments
Renew Items
My Library
University Home Page
Guest Borrower Application
Directions to Library
Guest Databases
Guest Borrowing and Access Policies
TexShare - What Is It?
TexShare - Visitors
TCU Faculty/Staff Borrowing Policies
TCU Student Borrowing Policies
Copyright Compliance
Music Library Copyright Guidelines
Course Reserves
Course Reserves Copyright Information
Electronic Reserves
Viewing Electronic Reserve Items - Students
Viewing Electronic Reserve Items - Faculty
In-Library Reserves
Administration Department
Library Mission, Vision, and Values
University Library Committee
Acquisitions Department
Books In Print
Publisher Information
New Materials Added
Suggest Materials Form
Brite Library Department
Cataloging Department
Circulation Department
Collection Development
Government Information Department
Government Information Pages
Information Commons Department
Information Commons Site
Interlibrary Loan Department
Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery
Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Graduate Students and Faculty
Interlibrary Loan Requests - Undergraduates
Save a step - interlibrary loan direct
Interlibrary Loan - What is it?
Music Library Department
Periodicals
Reference Department
Reference Site
Research Guides
Virtual Reference Collection
Special Collections Department
Special Collections Site
Systems Department
EReserve Submission Form - Faculty
Library Instruction Request Form
Remote Storage Request Form
Clark Society (TCU alumni who have library privileges)
Friends of the Library organization
Windows Newsletter for Friends of the Library
Faculty Handbook
Graduate Student Fact Sheet
Regular Hours
Special Hours
Summer Hours
Information Commons (library computer lab and reference desk)
Library Instruction Main Page
Library Tutorial
Bibliographic Management Software
Databases by Title
Databases by Subject
Electronic Journals
Electronic Reserves
Full Text Journal Locator
Other Libraries
Electronic Resource Trials
Subject Guides
TCU Library Catalog
Virtual Reference Collection
WWW Search Engines
Staff Directory
Tutorials
Exhaustive list, huh? You can see why good organization is key here.
[ edit ] Oh, and if anyone knows of any free online software type stuff where I can set up the above card-stacking/item-grouping exercise so that it's not a bunch of cutting-and-pasting for people, let me know. :D
This is going to be part of the usability test called a card-sort, or 'clustering and labelling' test. I've got a list of all the various forms, pages, links, etc on the library's website, and I'd like you to have a look at them, and sort them into groups that you think are connected - this will help me restructure the site into categories that make a more intuitive sense, because I have a sneaking suspicion that the current categories make more sense to librarians that patrons. I have also probably committed a Grievous Research Error and biased you in saying that up front, but you're all smart enough to realize that I think there's a problem with the organization as is, or I wouldn't be bothering with this. :)
Guidelines
--There's no right or wrong placement, of course.
--I'm not going to give you category labels, because I want to see what you associate these things with.
--Feel free to put an item in more than one category. That's the magic of the Internet: I can link to one page from several places in the menu. :)
--If you don't understand what an item is, please mention it. Some of them will makse sense to students and faculty at this school and not to outsiders, so I don't expect you to know them - I've tried to provide a bit of explanation on those. Others are, I think, obscure to anyone but the librarians here, and I need to know which ones those are, so I can rename them for the actual test, and for the page itself when I get around to recoding it later this summer.
--I dunno if your replies will fit in the LJ reply boxes; feel free to email them to telophase14 at gmail dot com. If you want to do it on a textfile or Word doc and attach it to an email, that's fine too. Obvisouly, this is sort of awkward online: in the actual test, I'll write them on index cards and have the test-takers physically stack them.
--Thank you!!
Da List o'Links o'Doom
Ask A Librarian
Comments
Renew Items
My Library
University Home Page
Guest Borrower Application
Directions to Library
Guest Databases
Guest Borrowing and Access Policies
TexShare - What Is It?
TexShare - Visitors
TCU Faculty/Staff Borrowing Policies
TCU Student Borrowing Policies
Copyright Compliance
Music Library Copyright Guidelines
Course Reserves
Course Reserves Copyright Information
Electronic Reserves
Viewing Electronic Reserve Items - Students
Viewing Electronic Reserve Items - Faculty
In-Library Reserves
Administration Department
Library Mission, Vision, and Values
University Library Committee
Acquisitions Department
Books In Print
Publisher Information
New Materials Added
Suggest Materials Form
Brite Library Department
Cataloging Department
Circulation Department
Collection Development
Government Information Department
Government Information Pages
Information Commons Department
Information Commons Site
Interlibrary Loan Department
Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery
Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Graduate Students and Faculty
Interlibrary Loan Requests - Undergraduates
Save a step - interlibrary loan direct
Interlibrary Loan - What is it?
Music Library Department
Periodicals
Reference Department
Reference Site
Research Guides
Virtual Reference Collection
Special Collections Department
Special Collections Site
Systems Department
EReserve Submission Form - Faculty
Library Instruction Request Form
Remote Storage Request Form
Clark Society (TCU alumni who have library privileges)
Friends of the Library organization
Windows Newsletter for Friends of the Library
Faculty Handbook
Graduate Student Fact Sheet
Regular Hours
Special Hours
Summer Hours
Information Commons (library computer lab and reference desk)
Library Instruction Main Page
Library Tutorial
Bibliographic Management Software
Databases by Title
Databases by Subject
Electronic Journals
Electronic Reserves
Full Text Journal Locator
Other Libraries
Electronic Resource Trials
Subject Guides
TCU Library Catalog
Virtual Reference Collection
WWW Search Engines
Staff Directory
Tutorials
Exhaustive list, huh? You can see why good organization is key here.
[ edit ] Oh, and if anyone knows of any free online software type stuff where I can set up the above card-stacking/item-grouping exercise so that it's not a bunch of cutting-and-pasting for people, let me know. :D
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One thought I had right away--is there a Search the Catalog link that can be put up front and scattered liberally throughout? (If that isn't a completely separate part of the site.)
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