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Scholars and Librarians Collaborating to Develop Online Collections from Multiple PerspectivesUniversity of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC Perspective
How do you approach?
✤ Developing Collections
✤ Current Research Interests
✤ Begin the conversation
What about the users perspective?
User-generated collaboration
✤ Researchers provide feedback everyday
✤ Search terms, usage trends...
✤ Reactive to become proactive
Involve Researchers!
✤ Ask for feedback!
✤ Send works-in-progress (Alpha & Beta)
✤ Find out what excites researchers
Marketing and Collections
✤ Migrate from “We Know What They Want” to.... “Based on User Feedback....”
✤ Collections that are user driven are easy to promote!
Rethink Collection Access
Rethink Collection Access
✤ Where are your researchers searching?
✤ How can you integrate into their research habits?
✤ Is your collection self-service?
Keys to successful data collection
✤ Google Analytics
✤ Google CSE
✤ Flickr
✤ Facebook Fan Pages
✤ Surveys & Feedback
Is data really that important?
What can data really reveal?
Searches Reveal....
Historical Maps
SomethingDoesn’t Add Up
It’s not perfect!
Stickiness...
Flickr Stats - Individual Item
Promotion Ideas?
Blog about it!
✤ Brief overviews of collections
✤ Pictures/maps
✤ Blogs improve search engine results
outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com
Food for Collaboration
✤ Use data to identify potential collaborators
✤ Collaborate beyond your institution
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Beginning the Conversations
✤ Open-ended questions
✤ Find out what your faculty are interested in scholarly/recreational research
✤ Meet to determine what collections to create, showcase, or to rethink
✤ Facilitate rather than dominate
What Can You Do?
✤ Talk to your users
✤ Use data to begin conversation with researchers
✤ Be willing to make mistakes
Questions?
✤ Michael [email protected]
✤ Check out our collection at magic.lib.uconn.edu
Tip: Meet at the local cafe or for lunch with potential collaborators
Links
✤ Facebook - http://facebook.com
✤ Flickr - http://flickr.com
✤ Google Analytics - http://google.com/analytics
✤ Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) - http://www.google.com/cse/
✤ Google Docs - http://docs.google.com
✤ Outside the Neatline - http://outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com
✤ UConn Libraries MAGIC - http://magic.lib.uconn.edu
