After a digital project is completed and made available online, the work is not over: digital projects managers must quantify the value of these digital collections. There are a plethora of tools to measure usage, but inferring value from usage requires careful interpretation of the data. After interpretation, the results must be communicated effectively to administrators. This poster will identify sources of digital collection use data, identify pitfalls in these sources, explore ways to derive meaning from use data, and suggest strategies for communicating value measurements to library administrators. This poster presentation is the first 15 minutes of video with question and answers starting at 28:48 into the video for both poster sessio...
There is very little public data on usage of digitized library collections. New methods for promotin...
Starting in 2007, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries began a collection assessment...
In November 2015-March 2016, I assigned my Graduate Assistant, David Durden, a project to compile us...
Digital libraries of archival historical and cultural resources are expensive to create and maintain...
IR managers are often tasked with proving the value of their programs. Stakeholders want to know tha...
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries recently launched several initiatives to increase the acc...
At the end of its 2011 fiscal year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library set out t...
Librarians invest time gathering numbers about collections for various entities, such as accrediting...
Is your library squeezing every dollar's-worth out of that expensive database? Should you renew your...
This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collectio...
This presentation discusses the different ways Access Services collects data, how you might handle i...
This 2015 study uses web analytics, subject term analysis, and download statistics to gauge the pres...
This poster was peer-reviewed for inclusion at the Association of College and Research Libraries' 20...
This presentation was given at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2014, Austin, TX, April 28,...
Driven by perceived value, resources often are allocated to the digitization of museum collections. ...
There is very little public data on usage of digitized library collections. New methods for promotin...
Starting in 2007, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries began a collection assessment...
In November 2015-March 2016, I assigned my Graduate Assistant, David Durden, a project to compile us...
Digital libraries of archival historical and cultural resources are expensive to create and maintain...
IR managers are often tasked with proving the value of their programs. Stakeholders want to know tha...
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries recently launched several initiatives to increase the acc...
At the end of its 2011 fiscal year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library set out t...
Librarians invest time gathering numbers about collections for various entities, such as accrediting...
Is your library squeezing every dollar's-worth out of that expensive database? Should you renew your...
This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collectio...
This presentation discusses the different ways Access Services collects data, how you might handle i...
This 2015 study uses web analytics, subject term analysis, and download statistics to gauge the pres...
This poster was peer-reviewed for inclusion at the Association of College and Research Libraries' 20...
This presentation was given at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2014, Austin, TX, April 28,...
Driven by perceived value, resources often are allocated to the digitization of museum collections. ...
There is very little public data on usage of digitized library collections. New methods for promotin...
Starting in 2007, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries began a collection assessment...
In November 2015-March 2016, I assigned my Graduate Assistant, David Durden, a project to compile us...