Digital Collection Evaluation: A Rubric for Holistic Evaluation

Digital collections have been a rising trend in library sciences for over a decade. However, analysis of these collections has still largely been limited to the digital specialists and the digital humanists. This paper summarizes the existing evaluation literature to propose a tool for librarians to use for their own individual collections' evaluations. It also examines the difficulties of evaluation and emphasizes the need for further research into librarian conducted analyses, as their evaluations differ from the evaluations of an expert. It also explains the development of digitization, digital collections and digital evaluation until this point.Master of Science in Library Scienc