Scholars and Librarians Collaborating to Develop Online Collections from Multiple Perspectives - MAGIC's Approach
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This document discusses strategies for librarians and scholars to collaboratively develop online collections from multiple perspectives. It emphasizes engaging with users by gathering feedback, surveying interests, and testing works in progress. Data from search terms, usage trends, and analytics can reveal what excites researchers and how to improve collections. The keys are talking to users, facilitating conversations rather than dominating them, and being willing to make mistakes.
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- 1. Scholars and Librarians Collaborating to Develop Online Collections from Multiple Perspectives University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC Perspective Date
- 2. How do you approach? ✤ Developing Collections ✤ Current Research Interests ✤ Begin the conversation
- 3. What about the users perspective?
- 4. User-generated collaboration ✤ Researchers provide feedback everyday ✤ Search terms, usage trends... ✤ Reactive to become proactive
- 5. Involve Researchers! ✤ Ask for feedback! ✤ Send works-in- progress (Alpha & Beta) ✤ Find out what excites researchers
- 6. Marketing and Collections ✤ Migrate from “We Know What They Want” to.... “Based on User Feedback....” ✤ Collections that are user driven are easy to promote!
- 8. Rethink Collection Access ✤ Where are your researchers searching? ✤ How can you integrate into their research habits? ✤ Is your collection self-service?
- 9. Keys to successful data collection ✤ Google Analytics ✤ Google CSE ✤ Flickr ✤ Facebook Fan Pages ✤ Surveys & Feedback
- 10. Is data really that important?
- 11. What can data really reveal?
- 13. Historical Maps Something Doesn’t Add Up It’s not perfect!
- 14. Stickiness...
- 15. Flickr Stats - Individual Item
- 16. Promotion Ideas?
- 17. Blog about it! ✤ Brief overviews of collections ✤ Pictures/maps ✤ Blogs improve search engine results outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com
- 18. Food for Collaboration 2008 2009 2010 ✤ Use data to identify 30,000 potential collaborators 22,500 ✤ Collaborate beyond 15,000 your institution 7,500 0 Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
- 19. 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
- 20. What Can You Do? ✤ Talk to your users ✤ Use data to begin conversation with researchers ✤ Be willing to make mistakes
- 21. Questions? ✤ Michael Howser michael.howser@uconn.edu ✤ Check out our collection at magic.lib.uconn.edu Tip: Meet at the local cafe or for lunch with potential collaborators
- 22. 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