IT Task Force Report Item 2.a

• Significantly expand the Libraries’ emphasis on digital collections, including realigning staffing to emphasize digital areas, especially the digital repository. The Task Force endorses:– Aggressive effort in area of digital repository, including new

assistant dean– Accelerating ETD pilot program to completion, conversion

to full program– Development/update of policies, procedures, tools

• Deposit, display, preservation and transcoding of digital materials, self-service Web page, etc.

Some Measures of Progress/Success

• Implemented the CSU Digital Repository in early 2007

• Sample usage statistics:– 9,412 downloads in September 2009– Faculty publications, ECE (225 articles → 3,998

downloads as of 10/20/09; avg. = 17.7)

• Content as of 10/20/09:– Total number of items is 11,973– Over 10,500 items in locally-created digital collections

• Clearly, we have some work to do

Strategies for Repository Development: Action Items

• Highest priority:

– Appoint new AD for Digital Services

– Accelerate ETD pilot program to completion,

conversion to full program

– Review existing policies, update, augment as

necessary, identify need for additional policies, get

feedback from campus– Develop procedures and tools

• Intuitive user interface for self-deposit,

metadata capture

Strategies for Repository Development: Action Items

• Medium priority:– Identify models for content acquisition– Determine what services the Libraries will provide

• Continually evaluate and refine

– Coordinate organizational activities and approaches• Utilize expertise, public position of college

liaisons & archivists• Identify tasks for classified staff, students• Realignment will be an opportunistic,

evolutionary process

Strategies for Repository Development

• The following threads feature prominently within all priorities:– Communication– Engagement – Promotion and marketing– Assessment

Strategies for Repository Development: Campus Involvement

• Work with appropriate CSU Faculty, staff, students/groups

– Faculty Council

• Presentation/dialogue at February meeting

– Meet with department heads

– Faculty Council Committee on Scholarship, Research,

and Graduate Education (ETDs)

– Faculty Council Committee on Libraries (policies)

• Work with Repositories Matrix Team

– Graduate Student Council (ETDs)

– ISTeC (MRI-R2 grant, policies)

Discussion

• What do you think?

• How can we most effectively expand

the emphasis on digital collections?