Aligning the Library Website and Intuitional Repository Experience: Redesign, Implement and Engage

Last year, we started the process of changing sidebar menu items and breadcrumb navigation to help with enhancing accessibility for the library website based on some suggestions by staff members having issues with the website. As the project progressed of adjusting and changes to the library website navigation progressed, it was obvious how much these changes have created more differences of navigation menus between our library website and institutional repository creating no so streamlined experiences for users between the two. With the timing also eligible for the institutional repository to go through a redesign, steps were taken to document the needed typeset, font families to as close as the library website as possible. The new design launched shortly before the end of 2025, with additional menus on the institutional repository, providing users with more cohesive experience and options to find items in our institutional repository. Our institutional repository reached 6 million downloads by September 11th, 2026.