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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)