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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
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How do you approach?
✤ Developing Collections
✤ Current Research Interests
✤ Begin the conversation
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What about the users perspective?
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User-generated collaboration
✤ Researchers provide feedback everyday
✤ Search terms, usage trends...
✤ Reactive to become proactive
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Involve Researchers!
✤ Ask for feedback!
✤ Send works-in-progress (Alpha & Beta)
✤ Find out what excites researchers
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Marketing and Collections
✤ Migrate from “We Know What They Want” to.... “Based on User Feedback....”
✤ Collections that are user driven are easy to promote!
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Rethink Collection Access
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Rethink Collection Access
✤ Where are your researchers searching?
✤ How can you integrate into their research habits?
✤ Is your collection self-service?
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Keys to successful data collection
✤ Google Analytics
✤ Google CSE
✤ Flickr
✤ Facebook Fan Pages
✤ Surveys & Feedback
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Is data really that important?
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What can data really reveal?
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Searches Reveal....
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Historical Maps
SomethingDoesn’t Add Up
It’s not perfect!
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Stickiness...
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Flickr Stats - Individual Item
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Promotion Ideas?
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Blog about it!
✤ Brief overviews of collections
✤ Pictures/maps
✤ Blogs improve search engine results
outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com
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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
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What Can You Do?
✤ Talk to your users
✤ Use data to begin conversation with researchers
✤ Be willing to make mistakes
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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
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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