[Dspace-general] Defining a collection

[Scott P. Muir]

i am aware that there is a good bit of documentation providing 
guidelines on community and collection policies, content guidelines, 
community startup procedures, etc.

Has anyone developed some guidelines for what makes a collection to 
share with campus departments? e.g. How one decides when a group of 
materials is a unique collection, or ideas as to what materials are 
of high enough quality to be in a collection. These are the types of 
things that librarians look at regularly, but translating that into 
guidelines for the Department of XYZ and they consider setting up a 
collection in DSpace is a bit more difficult.  The Libraries don't 
wish to micro-manage this, but at the same time  we don't want to 
look at a collection or an item in a collection and gasp with horror 
or chuckle at what has been mounted.

Has anyone already developed something like this that you would be 
willing to share?

Thank you


Scott P Muir
Associate University Librarian
Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F
Eastern Michigan University
955 West Circle Drive
Ypsilanti, MI  48197-2207

734.487.0020 x2222 (voice)
734.484.1151 (fax)
http://www.emich.edu/halle/

mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu