[Dspace-general] Defining a collection
Scott P. Muir
smuir1 at emich.edu
Mon Dec 12 16:56:41 EST 2005
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
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