Hello all --

We are currently debating the knotty question of whether to have our finding
aids display the container information down the left side of the page or
down the right side of the page.  The left side is more traditional, and
many of the implementations I've reviewed on the web have chosen this
approach.  On the other hand, as we all know, it is the intellectual
structure of the material itself, not the container, that is the primary
organizing key of a collection; this is re-emphasized by the structure of
the EAD document which of course is built upon the divisions and
subdivisions of material, not on where it's physically housed.

So I am wondering: how many of you have chosen to display container
information on the right, and how many of you have chosen to display it on
the left?  Has anyone received feedback (pro or con) from researchers, other
libraries, etc?  If anyone has published finding aids to the web that have
the container information on the left, could you share the URL so we can
take a look?

Many thanks --

Michele Rothenberger
Syracuse Unversity SCRC