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Development of new digital collections to promote student or faculty scholarship
(e.g., transcriptions, data sets, student assignments, metadata, etc.)
23 51%
Collaboration with teaching faculty for development of assignments 20 44%
Development of supplemental resources for collection use 17 38%
Linking to digital collections within course management systems or specific courses 16 36%
Outreach geared toward K–12 educators 12 27%
Other change 12 27%
Please briefly describe the other change. N=12
bepress Digital Commons develops their software based on use and client feedback.
Better collection development policies are produced after assessment of whether collections were a success or not.
Changes in institutional subsidy for storage
Collaboration with administrative units to develop outreach centered on alumni and other groups.
Informs further collection development and funding priorities.
New resources for curators for curation needs (digital curation and digitization workflows and management resources/
tools) and for integration with research and teaching, and for greater ease in collaborating with others through and with
the digital collections.
No changes yet, but plan to assess and then evaluate for needed changes.
Refinement of our digital object viewer and metadata display
Transition to new digital asset management system
We certainly do most if not all the activities listed above, but not necessarily as a result of assessment.
We have not yet done any formal assessment, although we have updated the user interface based on staff/faculty
feedback.
We would like to see these in the future: Collaboration with teaching faculty for development of assignments,
development of supplemental resources for collection use, development of new digital collections to promote student or
faculty scholarship (e.g., transcriptions, data sets, student assignments, metadata, etc.)
10. Please briefly describe any other ways assessment has been used to sustain and grow your library’s
digital collections. N=19
AIDA assessment
Analysis to focus on most unique items, as well as high use items, that would benefit from digital access.
Assessment used to advocate for resources for program. Used to support selection of similar materials for digitization.
Based on usage logs, we realized we have better usage putting our collections in DSpace vs CONTENTdm.
Download reports have been used to increase awareness of the collection by demonstrating increased visibility of
research.
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