32 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
We’re in the process of doing a more comprehensive survey of digital scholarship support on campus
and I imagine my answers to this section would be very different in six months.
While the Library and CIS support all affiliated researchers, some services outside the library (e.g., S4,
PSTC, BioStats, etc.) provide service only for researchers affiliated with those departments.
While we serve the general public, we have not seen much, if any, uptake in needed services for those
outside the university community. We are more than happy to provide broad support within the scope
of our resources and would only turn down/redirect a community member if it kept us from being able
to adequately support our affiliated faculty and students.
LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: STAFF CATEGORIES
The remainder of the survey focuses on what staff in your library are doing to support digital
scholarship activities.
4. Please indicate which categories of library staff support the digital scholarship activities listed
below. Check all that apply. N=72
Activities Librarian Archivist Other
professional
(e.g., IT, HR,
financial)
Support
staff
Interns GSA Ugrad
student
workers
Other
staff
category
N
Making digital
collections
67 44 42 36 16 26 26 5 70
Digitization/imaging
of analog material
57 37 33 53 16 31 40 3 70
Digital preservation 59 36 40 18 2 4 0 1 68
Metadata creation 65 37 22 35 13 23 17 4 67
Data curation and
management
65 25 37 13 1 4 0 3 67
GIS and digital
mapping
58 4 28 17 3 23 11 2 67
Digital exhibits 61 42 42 19 12 21 9 3 66
Project planning 61 29 37 16 0 6 2 5 63
Digital publishing 55 10 34 21 4 9 10 1 59
Project management 52 23 33 11 0 7 1 3 55
Interface design
and/or usability
42 9 40 11 1 7 3 3 54
Visualization 43 1 30 10 5 12 6 2 50
Computational text
analysis/support
43 1 24 4 2 10 2 3 50
Technical upkeep 32 10 41 12 1 6 5 2 49
Encoding content
(e.g., TEI markup)
41 12 17 5 1 10 3 3 49
Statistical analysis/
support
39 3 18 7 3 14 1 1 45
We’re in the process of doing a more comprehensive survey of digital scholarship support on campus
and I imagine my answers to this section would be very different in six months.
While the Library and CIS support all affiliated researchers, some services outside the library (e.g., S4,
PSTC, BioStats, etc.) provide service only for researchers affiliated with those departments.
While we serve the general public, we have not seen much, if any, uptake in needed services for those
outside the university community. We are more than happy to provide broad support within the scope
of our resources and would only turn down/redirect a community member if it kept us from being able
to adequately support our affiliated faculty and students.
LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: STAFF CATEGORIES
The remainder of the survey focuses on what staff in your library are doing to support digital
scholarship activities.
4. Please indicate which categories of library staff support the digital scholarship activities listed
below. Check all that apply. N=72
Activities Librarian Archivist Other
professional
(e.g., IT, HR,
financial)
Support
staff
Interns GSA Ugrad
student
workers
Other
staff
category
N
Making digital
collections
67 44 42 36 16 26 26 5 70
Digitization/imaging
of analog material
57 37 33 53 16 31 40 3 70
Digital preservation 59 36 40 18 2 4 0 1 68
Metadata creation 65 37 22 35 13 23 17 4 67
Data curation and
management
65 25 37 13 1 4 0 3 67
GIS and digital
mapping
58 4 28 17 3 23 11 2 67
Digital exhibits 61 42 42 19 12 21 9 3 66
Project planning 61 29 37 16 0 6 2 5 63
Digital publishing 55 10 34 21 4 9 10 1 59
Project management 52 23 33 11 0 7 1 3 55
Interface design
and/or usability
42 9 40 11 1 7 3 3 54
Visualization 43 1 30 10 5 12 6 2 50
Computational text
analysis/support
43 1 24 4 2 10 2 3 50
Technical upkeep 32 10 41 12 1 6 5 2 49
Encoding content
(e.g., TEI markup)
41 12 17 5 1 10 3 3 49
Statistical analysis/
support
39 3 18 7 3 14 1 1 45
