[Dspace-general] Defining a collection

[Louise Ratliff]

Dear Scott,

  I don't know if it is helpful, but here is the URL for the policies 
for the University of California eScholarship repository.  It's not 
DSpace, but it _is_ for use by campuses.
<http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/about.html>

  You might also take a look at some of the other DSpace instances; 
Cornell and U. of Maryland come to mind, as well as the U. of Oregon 
Scholar's Bank.  I've seen some policy documents which might be useful.

  Here's the wiki page listing the instances.
 <http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances>

  Good luck, and please let me know what you find out!

Louise Ratliff
UCLA

--On Monday, December 12, 2005 4:56 PM -0500 "Scott P. Muir" 
<smuir1 at emich.edu> wrote:

> 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
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>
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>
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