SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach · 33
Digital Preservation Plan created by a working group as part of DIAG.
I’m interpreting “assessment” to include web analytics, user research and studies, and tracking the use of digital
collections within research and teaching.
There is an informal assessment plan. Some collections have different goals than others, so they are assessed differently.
We have assessment plans when mandated by funding sources of specific digital collections.
No plan N=12
A collection assessment plan is in place but would require considerable alterations to be applicable to locally curated
digital collections.
Planning to do within next three years.
Publishing and Curation Services is a new department likewise, the position of Digital Content Strategist. Priorities
for launching and evolving our new repository service have had priority in 2012–2013. We are likely to review how
we curate digital collection content, as well as assess such curation, in 2014. As preparation for creating a plan of
assessment for these collections, we have started assessment activities, such as reviewing and evaluating the inquiries
we receive about our digital collections, in particular to see how we could be promoting and doing outreach for them
and to determine where there are recurring issues (in terms of access, especially) that we need to focus on resolving. But
this effort is only just starting.
Statistics kept.
The Digitization Working Group is in the process of developing a plan.
The newly created Collection Strategies Department will be responsible for developing the assessment plans for
collections-related areas.
The Scholarly Communication Department is planning to create an assessment plan.
There are plans to do assessment.
There is an ongoing discussion about formalizing our process for assessing our digital collections. We recently formed a
committee to evaluate all of our delivery platforms, but that is more general and less collection-specific.
This is something we will be exploring in the near future.
We use Google analytics and download statistics to understand use trends.
We will be developing one.
6. Has your library performed assessments of your locally curated digital collections within the last
three years? N=70
Yes 33 47%
No, but we plan to 21 30%
No 16 23%
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