Assessing the Impact of Special Collections
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RLG Programs webinar, Assessing the Impact of Special Collections, Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner, 14 August 2007. Presentation followed by discussion.
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Assessing the Impact of Special Collections
- 1. Assessing the Impact of Special Collections Merrilee Proffitt Jennifer Schaffner RLG Programs “ webinar” 14 August 2008
- 2. How we arrived at this issue: Annual meeting photos/“What are they doing in there?”
- 3. ARL statistics Reference Queries Total Circulation
- 5. All ARL reference with full-time students REFERENCE Special collections at a large public university East-coast IRLA West-coast IRLA
- 6. REFERENCE QUESTIONS ARL statistics at that same private university Special collections at a private university Email Visit Phone Mail Fax Total Requests
- 7. East-coast IRLA” CIRCULATION Independent special collections at a public university All ARL total circulation to full-time students
- 8. Southwestern state university Midwestern flagship university ARL institution the ARL’s own special collection West-coast public university Circulation
- 9. http://eisengeiste.blogspot.com/ Over the course of three weeks, the Digital Collections site received over 2,100 hits from one blog post. Ann Lally | University of Washington Libraries
Editor's Notes
- Merrilee and I have noticed an escalating interest among the RLG Partnership in tracking what’s going on in rare books, manuscripts and archives. We all wish we had a benchmark to measure the impact of EAD. We wish we knew more about the use and the usefulness of online information about special collections. In this seminar, Merrilee and I will not present a plan – we don’t have the answers. It’s more of a discussion section. We’re more interested in airing ideas and surfacing issues about metrics in special collections. Is there a way forward? In this hour, we’ll set out a summary of work that has been done, and work underway. Most of the time is set aside for comments, questions and discussion. We have at least one special guest. Beth Yakel has called in from a conference on – assessment – where she’s presenting her research in an hour or so (if you can catch a quick flight to Seattle).