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Digital Library Evaluation: Measuring Impact, Quantifying Quality, or Tilting at Windmills?

Digital Library Evaluation: Measuring Impact, Quantifying Quality, or Tilting at Windmills?. NSDL All Projects Meeting Wed., October 15, 2003, 9-10:30. eERL – electronic Environmental Resources Library Produced by ATEEC, an ATE Center of Excellence

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Digital Library Evaluation: Measuring Impact, Quantifying Quality, or Tilting at Windmills?

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  1. Digital Library Evaluation: Measuring Impact, Quantifying Quality, or Tilting at Windmills? NSDL All Projects Meeting Wed., October 15, 2003, 9-10:30

  2. eERL – electronic Environmental Resources Library • Produced by ATEEC, an ATE Center of Excellence • Mission: Provide a comprehensive library of online environmental and sustainability resources for community college educators, students, and practitioners

  3. Originally named ATEEL Advanced Technology Environmental Education Libraryhttp://ateel.ateec.org/The ATEEL digital library first debuted in 1999.

  4. eERL will offer free online resources from three main content areas:environmental technology (12 content areas): air quality, energy, materials science, sustainability, etc. vocational areas (8 content areas): agriculture, automotive, manufacturing technology, etc.cross-cutting areas (11 content areas): environmental issues, safety and health, regulatory affairs, etc.

  5. eERL will also provide… Career information in the field of Environmental TechnologyRegulatory information for Environmental Technologyoriginal research from MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (LfEE)

  6. For more information, visit: http://www.eerl.org/ http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/eerlwork.htmlATEELhttp://ateel.ateec.org/ http://nsdl.org/or contact: Dr. Ellen Kabat Lensch -- ekabatlensch@eicc.eduor Chris Walker -- cwalker@eicc.eduor Chris Neuhaus – Neuhaus@uni.edu

  7. Chris NeuhauseERL - ATEEL Projects • Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library - ATEEL • eERL (pre-Beta testing) • Digital Library Bibliography - Assessment/Evaluation • Bibliography of Research Influencing eERL Evaluation and Development • Contacts and Directories • Presentations • Reports and Minutes • Surveys and Results • Timelines and Eventshttp://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/eerlwork.html

  8. Bibliography of Research Influencing eERL Development and Evaluation http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/researchbib.html • Top 20 reads pertinent to eERL’s evaluation process include: • Aladwani, Adel M. and Prashant C. Palvia. 2002. "Developing and Validating an Instrument for Measuring User-Perceived Web Quality." Information & Management. Vol. 39. No. 6. p. 467-476. • Bishop, Ann Peterson and Bertram (Chip) Bruce. 2002. "Digital Library Evaluation as Participative Inquiry." Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois. - website http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/02delos.pdf • Bishop, Ann Peterson. 1998. "Measuring Access, Use, and Success in Digital Libraries" The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Vol. 4, no. 2. Online copy at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/bishop.html • Blanford, Ann, Bob Fields, and Suzette Keith. 2003. "Usability Evaluation of Digital Libraries." JCDL 2003 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - May 27, 2003, Houston.+16 more

  9. Surveys Done to Date Environmental Resources—Preferences Online Resources Use

  10. Environmental Resources Preferences - Survey Results can be seen at http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/graphenvpref.html EXCEL version and the original survey are also to be found at http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/eerlsurveys.html

  11. Online Resources Use - Survey Results can be seen at http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/graphonlineresources.html EXCEL version and the original survey are also to be found at http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/eerlsurveys.html

  12. Tilting at Windmills, In Pursuit of a Better Understanding of Our Users • We were overwhelmed by the tasks ahead. We delegated and found strength within our eERL team and without, from our evergrowing network of digital library peers/friends. • We were unsure of what techniques to use. Thanks to our workshops through NSDL and JCDL, we have a course of action--Talk Alouds and Outcomes Assessment. • We thought we knew our users pretty well. We found out we have a lot to learn but are on track.

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