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Student Expectations For Library Web Site Organization, Charity B. Hope, Shannon M. Staley Jun 2003

Student Expectations For Library Web Site Organization, Charity B. Hope, Shannon M. Staley

Shannon M. Staley

The authors solicited 201 San Jose State University student volunteers to participate in card-sorting exercises. This was to determine how the students envisioned the organization of the library web site. Each card in the sorting exercises represented a major page of the library web site, and students were asked to categorize them into groups and then label the groups. Cluster analysis was used to determine categorical strengths.