Some quick stats first: the Website Weeding project is to date about halfway through. Of around 998 pages on the library website, over 300 pages have been edited or kept as-is and over 200 pages have been deleted. Of around 663 images scattered in various folders, 117 have been kept, 140 deleted, and the remainder still to be checked. A big thank you to everyone who’s helped or is still working on parts of the site.

The homepage is basically excluded from the project – a proper review would be a separate project involving usability testing – but coming out of this work are a couple of tweaks we’d like to make. eServices have kindly mocked up a demo page. In summary:

• Exam papers are moved up under Resources so they’re more easily visible
• Journals are removed from under Resources so as not to strike the eye of students looking for journal articles; the link is however still in the How Do I Find menu.
• The current Reference page is removed and replaced with a How Do I Find page – this has essentially the same content as the dropdown menu but may be more accessible for some users. Note that most of the links from the Reference page are to content that is more easily found by a websearch; the remainder is either listed under How Do I Find or is more relevant to specific subject guides.
• the How Do I Find dropdown menu has shifted left to be more prominent.

Please comment or email me with any feedback.

Deborah