The Yale University Library is made up of twenty different buildings on campus. These buildings are designated for specific schools and subjects. Like the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Lillian Goldman Law Library. Each school provides subject-specific services to its students and differs from other campus libraries in policy and layout. Despite the differences between the libraries, they all share the same home page. The Yale University Library site brings together all libraries and buildings for the user's convenience. Gathering that many libraries is no easy task, especially when a large portion of your user base is undergraduate students. The following is a brief assessment of the library website by a non-student/faculty/staff member. Overall Rating The Yale Libraries home page provides a lot of information. However, despite the amount of links provided, the page does not appear cluttered or chaotic. Links to services provided by the library system are located at the top of the page via a drop-down menu and in the center of the page in a sitemap layout. Contact information is not available on the home page and has no obvious location on the site. The organization of the home page and corresponding pages is clear and user-friendly. Headings are written in a layman-friendly manner, with a few exceptions, and their meaning and purpose are clear. The libguides are presented in alphabetical order by general topics. Once clicked on a libguide, it may contain resources on more specific topics. Navigating the site is generally easy. The Yale logo at the top of the page takes users back to the main home page every time they click. Some exceptions to the ease of navigation...... middle of paper ...... in the "Orbits Catalog" was left out of the basic guides. The site is designed with the presumption that new undergraduate students have library knowledge. Without proper instruction on library use, new students may have difficulty during their initial library use. However, once a student is trained in the basic functions of the library, the resources and links provided on the site will undoubtedly be beneficial to the student's education. . By all appearances, the purpose of the site is to promote the educational goals of the student and the university. In this regard, the Yale Library web page does an outstanding job. Works Cited Raward, R. (2001). Principles of Academic Library Website Design: Developing a Checklist. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 32(2).Yale. (nd). Yale University Library. Retrieved from http://web.library.yale.edu/