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ASSESSMENT REASONS AND FREQUENCY
7. Please indicate the reasons for conducting assessment of your locally curated digital collections.
Check all that apply. N=51
To improve functionality 44 86%
General ongoing iterative development 42 82%
Technical enhancement evaluation 36 71%
New formats or functionality added to the collection 32 63%
For stakeholder buy-in 26 51%
Funding requirement 16 31%
Other reason(s) 18 35%
Please specify the other reason(s). N=18
Analyzing storage requirements
Content evaluation and prioritization of new content or feature additions.
For our institutional repository, we use “No. of Downloads” for PDFs to get author buy-in.
General usability
Measure use and relevance to campus academic programs (research, teaching/learning, patient care)
Migration to Fedora of older content
Migration to new system
Part of overall assessment plan that is under development.
Preservation
Statistics gathering for reporting and other uses
Survey of our activities prompted by hiring of digital assets librarian who performed an environmental scan of the
libraries digital activities.
The assessment is mostly driven from digital library patron input.
To determine user wants and needs to meet new requirements of government regulations.
To gather information on new needs and concerns, as with integrated data management support which was recently
added to SobekCM.
To inform future digitization efforts to demonstrate use/demand to inform pre- and post-migration to a new platform
To track usage
To understand who our users are and what tools and resources they need.
Tracking impact for digital research projects
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