Redesign of the Internet Sacred Text Archive: The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a free online archive providing access to sacred texts and reference materials from a wide range of religious and cultural traditions. While rich in content, the site’s homepage and top-level navigation can overwhelm users with dense links, unclear hierarchy, and inconsistent labeling. This project presents an information architecture redesign focused on improving findability, navigation, and overall understanding of the archive. Based on a content inventory, environmental scan, and open card sort with five participants, we developed user personas, before-and-after user journeys, a revised sitemap, and wireframes. The proposed redesign organizes homepage content into clearer categories, simplifies labels, and creates more distinct pathways for browsing, searching, and learning about the archive. These recommendations aim to make ISTA easier to navigate while preserving access to its extensive resources.

India Nemer is a Master of Library and Information Science student at San José State University. She holds a BA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and works as the Collections, Communications & Programs Coordinator at San Francisco Cinematheque. She also interns with the Center for Sacramento History, where she digitizes, cleans, and catalogs archival 16mm film materials. Her interests include audiovisual archives, digital curation, metadata, information architecture, and improving access to cultural heritage collections.

Pricila Ramirez is a Master of Library and Information Science student at San José State University. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Sacramento State University. She also interns with San Francisco Cinematheque, where she assists with creating item-level inventories and metadata for archival collections. Her interests include books, libraries, archives, and the information and resources they provide.