40 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Input from faculty has informed decisions for digitization.
It assures that we make informed decisions about long-term commitments for the creation, management, access,
and preservation of digital resources. Stakeholders from across our organization are involved, and our process and
documents are straightforward and accessible, which makes engaging stakeholders fairly easy, and makes our
commitments much more likely to remain intact over time.
It has been critical in the pilot phase of our Research Data Curation Program collections, particularly as that program
emerges from a pilot phase.
LIT is generally once removed from direct interaction with faculty and students, and more often supports others across
the library/campus who are involved in that way. Our proactive support tends to be for others who work directly with
faculty. Our reactive support tends to be with end-users directly. There is overlap.
Mostly, assessment has been used to prioritize what collections to digitize.
Not sure if this fits, but we do rights assessments of faculty publications to determine eligibility for inclusion in our
institutional repository.
Patron feedback is taken into account to continue to add more content to the digital library.
Periodic metadata assessment to enhance the structure, use, display, etc. of digital collections
The examination of usage statistical reports has allowed us to determine what content is most used and create more
content that caters to this audience.
We commonly use assessment to develop new functionality for digital collections, beyond “new search features.”
We have applied and received some grant funds and internal funds based on usage statistics of our digital collections.
We have been able to use statistics to leverage additional IT support for specific platforms. We have used user statistics,
online feedback to provide evidence to archival donors and reinforce the value of digitization and providing free online
access to digitized content.
We have been so thinly staffed for so long that assessment has taken a back burner until things change. We would very
much like to use it more robustly.
We receive user feedback and incorporate it into planning for new features and functionality for our repository system.
11. Please briefly describe how evaluation of collections has resulted in activities that support the
data/digital curation lifecycle. N=24
A download count analysis comparing theses and dissertations downloads in ProQuest Dissertations &Theses and
ScholarWorks (institutional repository) revealed that downloads were dramatically greater in ScholarWorks. We used
these results to encourage the deposition of ETDs in ScholarWorks.
As a result of an evaluation of the current state of our digital asset management systems we have established a Fedora
repository with an Islandora management front end as a preservation repository for the digital assets that underpin our
digital collections.
Assessment data helps us make the case that our collections are being used, that our roles and responsibilities are
necessary, and thus that the digital curation infrastructure should be sustained and further supported.
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