January 22, 2015 Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

Series Eight: “Doing It: How Non-ARL Institutions

are Managing Digital Collections ”

Curated by Liz Bishoff, Partner, The Bishoff Group LLC

“Real Life Experiences with Hosted

Institutional / Digital Repository Services”

Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Carissa Smith, Product Manager, DSpaceDirect & DuraCloud, DuraSpace

January 22, 2015 Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

Oceana Wilson, Director of Library and Information Services, Crossett Library, Bennington College

In Review

“Managing Digital Collections” Survey Conducted by the Bishoff Group and DuraSpace in the early 2014

Goal Gain a better understanding of the status of digital content creation, management, and preservation activities underway in the non-ARL academic library community

Responses 145 from non-ARL organizations (such as ACRL list members, Oberlin Group, etc.)

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Respondents

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Trends Toward Hosted

What we found 73 respondents (71.6%) use hosted service offered by a vendor or consortia 29 respondents (28.4%) are locally managed

Decision factors Type of content being managed (requirements, restrictions) User functionality Technical philosophy (move to hosted) Technical and customer support Preservation functionality Cost

January 22, 2015 Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

Digital Commons @ IWU: Share, Discover, Illuminate

STEPHANIE DAVIS-KAHL, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 01.22.15

Beginnings [2007]

• Strategic Plan • Campus Identity Study • Digital Collections • Timing

Image: Standing on the starting line, Olympia,

Greece (2006), by Templar1307, (CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0)

https://flic.kr/p/2pAdvo

focus on student

work

people

timing

Stakeholders: University Librarian, Associate

Provost, Chief Information Officer, Library Advisory Committee,

Teaching & Learning with Technology Committee

$$$

Building Blocks

• Infrastructure • Services

• Teaching, Outreach

• Campus Culture

Values, People,

Curriculum

Active Learning OA/PA

Advocacy

Personnel Workflow Metadata

Faculty Work Student Work Records Mgmt Copyright Ed

Publishing

Digital Commons @ IWU

Digital Commons @ Illinois Wesleyan University (DC@IWU) reflects the nature of the intellectual, creative and scholarly culture of our campus. DC@IWU serves as the central location for outstanding student work, faculty scholarship, University records, and campus history. Our goals are to: • Promote and disseminate academic and creative

achievements of students and faculty • Ensure preservation of and persistent access to said

work • Increase discovery of IWU scholarship and artistic

expressions • Foster scholarly collaborations with colleagues • Document and record IWU’s history and progress

Image: Digital Commons @ IWU homepage http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu

Faculty Work and Beyond

Community Engagement

Faculty Governance

Information Literacy

Instruction

University Communication&

Advancement

Admissions, Alumni Relations

Archives & Special

Collections

Digital Commons

@ IWU

Student Scholarly & Creative Work

Campus Connections

Capstone Publishing Experience: Undergraduate Economic Review

Major Coursework Information Literacy

Writing in the Discipline Critical Peer Review

Open Access Publishing

http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Editors • Reviewers • Authors • Readers

Students

• Educator • Mentors • Advisors

Faculty • Educator • Advisor • Infrastructure

Librarian

http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer

John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc

Art Presentations http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2014/art/

Music Performances http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2014/music/

Jane Austen Book Covers, Jamie Kang (2011)

Fast Monsters, Victoria Poll (2011)

Honors Projects

Faculty Work: Post-prints, images, video/audio, links to blogs, journals, student work Viewing Device, Nisa Blackmon

Reframing, Revising [2014]

• Self-Study • External Review • Strategic Planning

Image “know where you are” by citymaus (CC-BY-ND 2.0)

https://flic.kr/p/dUbfST

THANKS… LIZ BISHOFF KRISTI SEARLE CARISSA SMITH OCEANA WILSON

Questions? Stephanie Davis-Kahl sdaviska@iwu.edu @StephDK http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl

Bennington, Vermont Founded in 1932 Liberal Arts College 660 Undergraduate FTE 95 Graduate FTE 8/1 Student/Faculty ratio 8 Library Staff Members

Not migrating from another software or hosted service Not a consortium purchase

Starting Points

Evaluation of material Prioritizing Needs Identifying users

Needs Assessment

Cost Features Licensing, Ownership Support Examples

Evaluation of Repository Software

Cost Support, Hosted Community, Open source Mission-driven, not-for-profit Owning our data Google Analytics Google Scholar Indexing

Factors in selecting DSpace

Getting Started Check List Getting Started How To Emails, Phone Calls Quick start up

Implementation Experience

Exceptional Timely – Same day or next day responses. Collaborative – Questions added to DSpaceDirect KnowledgeBase

Support

Launch

Social Media Projects Classroom

Outreach

Google Analytics

DuraSpace Managing Digital Collections Survey 82% rated Extremely or Very Important “Expose my institution’s intellectual output to researchers around the world who would not otherwise have access” as an important benefit of digital or institutional repository.

http://www.duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/Managing%20Digital%20Collections%20Survey%20Results%20Summary.pdf

January 22, 2015 Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series

QUESTIONS