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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

How do you approach?

✤ Developing Collections

✤ Current Research Interests

✤ Begin the conversation

What about the users perspective?

User-generated collaboration

✤ Researchers provide feedback everyday

✤ Search terms, usage trends...

✤ Reactive to become proactive

Involve Researchers!

✤ Ask for feedback!

✤ Send works-in-progress (Alpha & Beta)

✤ Find out what excites researchers

Marketing and Collections

✤ Migrate from “We Know What They Want” to.... “Based on User Feedback....”

✤ Collections that are user driven are easy to promote!

Rethink Collection Access

Rethink Collection Access

✤ Where are your researchers searching?

✤ How can you integrate into their research habits?

✤ Is your collection self-service?

Keys to successful data collection

✤ Google Analytics

✤ Google CSE

✤ Flickr

✤ Facebook Fan Pages

✤ Surveys & Feedback

Is data really that important?

What can data really reveal?

Searches Reveal....

Historical Maps

SomethingDoesn’t Add Up

It’s not perfect!

Stickiness...

Flickr Stats - Individual Item

Promotion Ideas?

Blog about it!

✤ Brief overviews of collections

✤ Pictures/maps

✤ Blogs improve search engine results

outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com

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

What Can You Do?

✤ Talk to your users

✤ Use data to begin conversation with researchers

✤ Be willing to make mistakes

Questions?

✤ Michael Howsermichael.howser@uconn.edu

✤ Check out our collection at magic.lib.uconn.edu

Tip: Meet at the local cafe or for lunch with potential collaborators

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