INLS 235
Day 12
Odum institute talk April 14: DL impact on ref & instruction
Project updates: schedule presentations
1. One minute papers
Big point
No simple metrics for DL success
Need a hybrid approach to DL evaluation
Questions
How to present yourself as an evaluator? [have examples of evaluations you have done]
What qualitative methods for showing DL impact? [consider testimonials]
Examples from Perseus evaluation?
How will sociological impact be measured?
Impact of tlogs on decision making? (over use/abuse?)
How to motivate feedback from users?
Do funding agencies have sustainability clauses/conditions? [LC] what about evaluation conditions?
Are there DLs that don’t need grants? That run on cost recovery?
Are there longitudinal evaluations and how do the impacts change?
Is it better to do narrow, high-quality DLs or broad, general ones?
2. DL Eval continued and DL trends
Perseus: controlled studies
Questionnaires
Interviews
Usage, linkages
3. DL presentations
David Knight Experience
Music Project http://www.emplive.com/
Crystal Edwards http://www.bc.edu/libraries/centers/burns/resources/digitalcoll/
Cathleen Keyser
Digital Collections Program (at
Meg McGinn
4. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?