WSU Vancouver Library Home Page
Effective Web Sites: Card Sort Instrument

Note: Each block equals a separate index card.

 

Main page





 

Library Hours

 

 

Staff Directory

 


 

About the library
Explanation: Information about the library 




 


 
 

Library Mission Statement




 


 

Donations & Gifts
Explanation: Items donated to the library 



 

New Acquisitions
Explanation: The library's new books and journals 

 

Library access & Use
Explanation: Polices about library use (eg. no food or drink) 
and about who can use library resources. 



 

Griffin -- Catalog
Explanation: The library online card catalog



 


 

WSUV Course Reserves
Explanation: Finding items that are on reserve 
for a WSUV class.




 


 

Environmental Information Center
Explanation: Information about the 
Center and its resources. 




 


 

Area Library Catalogs
Explanation: Catalogs of other libraries in this area. 





 


 

Class resources
Explanation: Information developed by librarians 
for specific WSUV classes.




 

Internet resources
Explanation: web sites and resources 
recommended by librarians.

 


 

Career resources
Explanation : Career guides, job postings, 
college catalogs, etc.




 

Collection Development
Explanation: the library policy for purchasing books, journals, etc.
 
 

Group Study rooms
 

 
 

Databases
Explanation: list of databases available to search. 




 


 

Reference
Explanation: Information about the reference service. 





 

Circulation
Explanation: Information about procedures 
for checking out items from the library.

 

 

Reserves information
Explanation: guidelines for faculty on how toput items on reserve.




 

Document Delivery & 
InterLibrary loan Information
Explanation: procedure and policy for ordering 
materials from other libraries. 
 

Document Delivery & 
InterLibrary loan Forms
Explanation: Online forms for requesting 
items from other libraries
 

 
 

Faculty Services
Explanation: services the library provides for faculty members.




 

 

Library Instruction 
Explanation: types of instruction provided by librarians 

 


 

VIS workshops
Explanation: Workshops offered by library and computer staff.




 

Fines and Overdue notices
Explanation: Description of fines and notices 
for items checked out from the library 

 

Checking out books
Explanation: procedure for checking out items from the library





 


 

Recalls and Renewals
Explanation: procedures for recalling or renewing an item. 




 


 

Online Searching
Explanation: Database searching done by 
librarians for faculty members





 


 

Current awareness services
Explanation: faculty service that provides 
current information on research topics




 


 

Cooperative Collection Development
Explanation: Faculty participation in collection development 





 


 

English 301
Explanation: information developed for this class 




 


 

Marketing 460
Explanation: information developed for this class 





 


 

Loan Periods
Explanation: Information on the time periods 
allotted for checking out items.



 

 

Lists 
Explanation: lists of web sites developed by the librarians. 



 

Search Engines
Explanation: Recommended search engines 
to use when searching the Web.



 


 

Electronic Texts
Explanation: electronic texts available on the Internet. 




 


 

U.S. Government sites
Explanation: web sites by U.S. government agencies. 





 

History sites
Explanation: web sites
 

Art/Humanities databases



 


 

Art/Humanities databases





 


 

Library databases help documents
Explanation: Help documents for using the library databases 






 


 

Griffin--Catalog help documents
Explanation: Help documents for using Griffin






 

Journal lists
Explanation: lists of journals owned by WSUV library 




 


 

Accessing library resources from home 
Explanation: Help documents for accessing library resources 





 

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Comments and questions to Karen Diller: library@vancouver.wsu.edu