Libraries website
Key Recommendations from Usability Study |
Status |
Remove the slider from the front page and replace it with commonly-accessed information resources and services |
Completed |
Add dropdown previews for the top navigation bar |
Not completed. This recommendation is incompatible with our current content management system |
Replace the search library search dropdown menu with tabbed searching |
Completed |
Remove or clarify the GIS tab |
Completed |
Add a link to Library Account/My Library Account on the Homepage. |
Completed |
Rename the “Who Can Borrow?” heading to “How to get a Library Card?” on the Borrowing page |
Completed but changed after further studies |
Clarify terminology. Document Delivery could be renamed to “Borrow from non-Dalhousie Libraries (Document Delivery)” or “Request items from other institutions”. ILL could be renamed to “Lending Services for non-Dalhousie libraries” to clearly differentiate between the two services. |
Completed |
Relocate information about DalSpace from the Collections page to the Services page |
Did not complete due to conflict with further studies |
Open the DalSpace page when the user clicks on the link and add the information |
Completed |
Add a “Find Printers” table that shows the location of printing stations in all campus libraries and what kinds of printing services are offered at that library. |
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Make Subject Guides a more prominent feature on the Research Help page. |
Complete |
Make the subject guides a drop down list from the Research Help page so users can view and access the desired subject guide directly from the Research Help page |
A search was created and the Subject Guides links directly to the Subject Guide list |
Add a link to the Citation Guide under the Writing and citations heading on the Research Help page |
Did not complete due to conflict with further studies |
Add the Writing and Style Guides to the top navigation |
Included in links on the homepage |