Conducting the card sort with four different groups provided some valuable insight to how students organize information as it pertains to the library. The first group was video taped as they organized items into categories. Here is short excerpt from the hour long video:

Whenever you are conducting research and gathering data there are always limitations and this exercise was no different. The limitations of this study are as follows:

• Only Juniors and Seniors volunteered to participate
• There were no first or second year students regardless of their degree status
• No graduate students participated
• There was no participation from the School of Education, which is one of the largest departments on campus.

The most frustrating part of the entire process was recruiting volunteers to participate in the card sort. I knew that it would be difficult to find participants, but I did not imagine it would be as difficult as it was. The whole process of designing and building a new website is iterative where you do something and then show what you have done to people to get feedback. As we move forward we will no longer need to recruit groups of people to participate at one time; However, we will still need to recruit people.

The next step in the process is to take the results from the card sort and start combining what each group of people did into meaningful categories. The card sort will segue into the next step which is to create the information architecture for the new website.