56 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Another way we hope to “spotlight” our digital collections is through building support for faculty and students to
pursue digital *projects*, which could enable them to take advantage of our digital collection content in the context of
research they are pursuing. So, we’re thinking not only about building new digital collections but also thinking about
what we already have in terms of content—and, to some extent, infrastructure—lends itself to developing compelling
digital projects, even digital scholarship.
Collaborate directly with students to build new digital collections.
Collaborate with those who support faculty directly to add resources, etc.
Librarians are actively working with digital humanists on campus to develop new digital initiatives.
21. Has your library identified other types of resources that need to be added/developed to support
collaboration with researchers and teachers to integrate locally curated digital collections into
research, teaching, and learning? N=63
Yes 30 48%
No 33 52%
If yes, please briefly describe the needed resources. N=29
Of these, what has been implemented? N=17
1) More collaboration tools. 2) Due to our role in creating and maintaining HathiTrust, we help researchers, typically not
at our institution, create virtual collections and/or datasets of HathiTrust content. Whenever possible, we direct these
researchers to the HathiTrust Research Center. This is a growing area of need, introduced by the new opportunities for
research at the unprecedented scale of HathiTrust. For #2, a number of needs can be served now, but there is much to
be done to fully establish services.
3D, GIS, makerspaces, etc. 3D, GIS are implemented. Makerspace is a campus wide priority that is being offered at our
innovation campus.
Ability to extract better statistics indicating usage of collections by faculty and students so that we can tailor services to
their needs. Will be implementing bePress Digital Commons in May 2014.
Additional expertise in data management, instructional design, and publishing is needed.
Administrative (plans, policies), technological, resources (money, staff)
Annotation, grouping, and other related personalization tools for students and faculty to interact with digital materials
in a secure way. We have these features for our digital image collections in Fedora +Hydra, will have them soon for
audiovisual collections.
Building specific portal or add-on using Omeka. We are testing Omeka.
Curator talks or presentations as introduction/orientation to provide context and situate the other activities, and to build
community with the curators and others.
Data portals and GIS integrated tools for specific subjects, such as ecology. In addition, we saw that patron-facing
games to allow them to add metadata to existing collections could enhance discoverability of collections. We are in
the process of implementing a data portal for California’s Orange County ecology research to be later joined with
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