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Know Your Crowd: A Case Study in Digital Collection Marketing

Digitized special collections and institutional repositories present unique challenges to libraries struggling to identify marketing strategies that will entice patrons to these services. These collections, which do not have the same mass appeal as…

Tags: Digital Collections, Digitization, Library Services Marketing, Marketing

Position: 275 (527 views)

All that Glitters Isn’t Gold: The Complexities of Usage Statistics as an Assessment Tool for Digital Libraries

Digital collection assessment has focused mainly on evaluating systems, metadata and usability. While use evaluation is discussed in the literature, there are no standard criteria and methods for how to perform assessment on use effectively. This…

Tags: Digital Collection Assessment, Digital Collection Evaluation, Digital Repository, DSpace, Institutional Repository, Use Statistics, Web Analytics

Position: 284 (523 views)

Making Search Engines Notice: An Exploratory Study on Discoverability of DSpace Metadata and PDF

This study analyzed the search results of four main Internet search engines on three newly created digital collections at Texas Tech University Libraries, in order to assess the search engine indexing on metadata and PDF files of digital items that…

Tags: Digital Collections, Digital Repository, DSpace, Internet Discoverability, Metadata Indexing, PDF Indexing, Search Engine Discovery

Position: 162 (577 views)

Autofill Browser Extension: A User-friendly Solution to Optimize Metadata WorkElow in Digital Repositories

Facing a complex metadata environment, it is challenging to implement strategies for optimizing metadata workflows in digital repositories. Running scripted applications and batch processing cost libraries additional resources, while not reducing…

Tags: Digital Repository, Duncker's Candle Problem, Functional Fixedness, Metadata Batch Processing, Metadata Optimization, Metadata Workflow

Position: 387 (495 views)

A Complete System for Publishing Music-related ETDs: Technology Development and Publishing Model

The purpose of this paper is to propose a complete system, including technology development and publishing model, which addresses the existing issues of publishing music-related ETDs. The paper shares the practice of utilizing the system developed by…

Tags: Audiovisual media, Digital libraries, Electronic media, Electronic theses and dissertations, Music-related ETDs, Software development

Position: 430 (474 views)

Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords

This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Incidence, Information Retrieval, Internet, Metadata, Online Searching, Proximity, Search engines, Search Strategies, Usability

Position: 172 (570 views)

How ARL Academic Libraries Present Open Web Resources: A Proposed Solution to Address Discoverability.

With the questions of how ARL academic libraries collect, present, and make searchable open web resources, this paper analyzes all ARL academic libraries' websites and finds that all of them are collecting valuable open web resources and presenting…

Tags: Discoverability, Discoverability of open web resources, Online resources, Open web resources, Research guides, Subject guides

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Know Your Crowd: A Case Study in Digital Collection Marketing

All that Glitters Isn’t Gold: The Complexities of Usage Statistics as an Assessment Tool for Digital Libraries

Making Search Engines Notice: An Exploratory Study on Discoverability of DSpace Metadata and PDF

Autofill Browser Extension: A User-friendly Solution to Optimize Metadata WorkElow in Digital Repositories

A Complete System for Publishing Music-related ETDs: Technology Development and Publishing Model

Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords

How ARL Academic Libraries Present Open Web Resources: A Proposed Solution to Address Discoverability.

Digital Preservation Challenges with an ETD Collection: A Case Study at Texas Tech University

Tutorials on Google Analytics: How to Craft a Web Analytics Report for a Library Web Site

Changemaking in the New Librarianship

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