SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach · 69
end of the project. Similarly, our activity in outreach or engagement in teaching or research through established digital
collections is currently opportunistic or ad hoc, as opposed to through comprehensive policies.
We are in the midst of some significant planning, formal policy development and de-siloing activities. Within two years,
we hope to have our local digital collections available in a more central manner on our main research and discovery
layers.
We are only just now starting to look at creating an outreach policy. Assessment and teaching integration would be
next but haven’t been planned yet.
We are part of the University of California system, so there is nearly always a tie-in between what we do locally and
what we do consortially. Special Collections and Archives is more format neutral so assessment and promotion are done
hand in hand with analog formats.
We certainly value assessment and outreach. We engage in both, but due to the decentralized nature of digital
collection development, there’s not necessarily a uniform approach to both.
We have an ongoing collaboration with the College of Arts &Sciences to partner with faculty in creating innovative
digital collections relevant to their research. Many of our new digital collections come from this funding stream, and
drive our ongoing effort to refine our practices of promoting and assessing our work.
We plan to do more, but have not done much as of yet.
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