46 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
There are outreach activities on a project basis, but no overall plan for digital collections in general. Digitization and
collection building activities are also somewhat distributed, so outreach and promotion takes place across a number of
library departments.
We do intend to evolve a plan for outreach in the coming year.
We have made attempts at outreach but have found they were not effective. To date, we do not have an outreach plan
because we have not found something that works.
While it is accurate to say, “There is no outreach plan,” it is not true there is no outreach. There is typically more for a
new project/collection, but there is periodic outreach for older projects as well. It is done more on an opportunistic/ad
hoc basis.
While there is no written outreach plan, the digital collections are well represented in other outreach efforts, most
notably the History of Medicine Division blog, and they are an integral part of the overarching strategic vision of the
History of Medicine Division.
14. Please indicate which of the following outreach and promotion methods your library uses, or plans
to use, for its locally curated digital collections. Check all that apply. N=69
Using library website to post announcements on updates and new collections 64 93%
Online social networking 59 86%
Contacting faculty/researcher directly 56 81%
Promoting an electronic finding aid containing the collection content 51 74%
Providing/developing instructional materials 45 65%
Delivering instructional workshops 44 64%
Providing ongoing communication with registered users 18 26%
Publishing reports on the value of digital collections 9 13%
Other outreach and promotion method 28 41%
Please briefly describe the other outreach and promotion method. N=28
Brochures on the value of digital collections
Classroom demonstrations (but not workshops), exhibits, working with a digital history class, awards and competitions
Conference presentations
Conferences, flyers, posters, etc. exhibits and public programming
Developing online and physical exhibits that are connected to the digital collections to promote awareness,
collaborating with publishers to have images from the digital collections included with proper attribution in publications,
etc.
Exhibits at relevant events, e.g., Research Core Open Access Portal workshop, new faculty orientation, state fair
Integration with courseware, participation in History Day
Marketing of ETD collection done in campus news, had a competition for our digitized yearbook project.
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