36 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
8. Please indicate how often your library uses, or plans to use, each of the following assessment
methods for locally curated digital collections. Select one choice per row. N=51
Answer Options Once Annually Another
regular
interval
Plans
to use
Never N
Statistics gathering/log analysis 18 24 9 51
Usability/user interface testing 5 6 20 18 49
User interface testing 5 6 17 20 1 49
Surveys 3 3 14 20 9 49
Collect user comments (via email or contact form) 1 5 30 12 48
Focus groups 5 2 11 19 10 47
Assessment training for staff 4 2 5 21 13 45
Workshops with stakeholders 1 1 15 16 12 45
Other method 1 3 3 15 22
Total Number of Responses 16 21 40 39 30 51
If you selected “Other method” above, please briefly describe the method. N=10
Annually N=1
Facilitated discussions, brainstorming sessions, and conferences on shared needs for digital scholarship collections for
scholars and curators.
Another regular interval N=3
Citations, altmetrics (tweets, blog posts, news articles, etc.)
Social media is also used to collect user comments.
Staff from across the library relaying feedback based on their direct interactions with users.
Plans to use N=3
Feedback from classes
With our Hydra development we will soon be working with “Early Adopters”—a select group of faculty or researchers,
not in the Libraries, who will work with us to identify functionality and user interface needs. This is not as much an
assessment method (like Beta testing) as a development method, a way we hope to involve a representative group of
users in the software development itself.
Work within our consortium to identify best practices.
Additional comments N=3
We work consortially within the Islandora community to implement their findings from usability/user interface testing.
We collect statistics on a monthly basis for some installations.
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