Benchmarking / examples of good practice

At the last Web Group meeting Ben and Michelle fed back about work they (along with Amanda and Stuart) did looking at other websites (the report is in the Web Group 'Research' folder).

They reviewed 15 sites (a mxture of commercial websites, and both UK and overseas academic and public libraries), looking at their structure, navigation, usability etc to see if we could find examples of good practice and innovation.

These are the sites covered:

British Library

University of Edinburgh Information Services

Imperial College London Library

University of Manchester John Rylands Library

UCL Library Services

MIT

New York Public Library

North Carolina State University

Queensland University of Technology

State Library of Victoria

Amazon

BBC Online

eBay

Wikipedia

You Tube

More stuff to read!

In the Writing for the Web session in April, Richard Ashby recommended a Gerry McGovern book: Content critical. We have copies of this available in the Library

And, I've just started reading Letting go of the Words : writing Web content that works by Ginny Redish, which so far is really interesting...