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Staffing to assist with assessment
Staffing. Fuller use of survey technologies made available recently at our university.
The current platforms supporting our digital collection materials have shortcomings re: user interface/user experience
design, search/browse/navigation functionalities, diversity of access, usage statistics, citation formatting capabilities,
and ownership issues. We also need to have some dedicated attention to treatment of digital collection resources as
more integrated in our policies and guidelines for collection development and management. Digital collections, as
currently organized, managed, and delivered, are quite siloed, but they do not need to be.
The library is actively using web statistics and input from users to improve sites and other digital resources. We also use
social media extensively.
There is no staff dedicated to assessment we may need to add a staff position for this purpose.
Those robust altmetric capabilities, common layers of identifiers to allow interlinking and impact tracking consistently
across the three repositories.
We are exploring altmetrics.
We are exploring this with the Digital Humanities Library Group and the Data Management/Curation Task Force to
develop other needed supports based on existing and planned activities.
We are revamping our repository infrastructure to be able to offer a more robust curatorial architecture for preservation
and showcasing of digital research and scholarship. There is also a need to experiment with additional assessment and
integration tools, such as search query analysis, data log analysis, and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).
We are still gathering information on this.
We have two groups that we hope will help us ultimately to support outreach and assessment: 1) The Assessment
Planning Task Force will review current processes within the Libraries, campus, and other academic libraries regarding
the strategic development, collection, evaluation, and reporting of library measurements and data that demonstrate
value to stakeholders. 2) The Strategic Planning Task Force will review current strategic planning processes within the
Libraries, campus, and other relevant organizations. The group will produce a report outlining a new strategic planning
framework for the Libraries that will improve agility in planning and decision-making, engagement with stakeholders,
and alignment with institutional priorities.
We need people and standard methods and protocols in place so that we can more systematically engage in
assessment, especially, though outreach activities could benefit from some level of coordination.
We need to implement a survey tool that allows us to collect feedback on the digital library.
We plan to formalize our policies related to digital projects. We also expect to offer a training program in scholarly
communications for our liaison librarians this fall. The course will cover the basics of the institutional repository, digital
humanities, data curation, and GIS. This course will provide support for our liaison librarians as they conduct outreach to
our students and faculties.
We would like better statistics reporting and to make further/advanced use of Google Analytics. We would also like to
make this more visible to the user. Our new marketing and communications unit is working with us on a digital exhibits
template to promote further use of our digital collections.
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