Anita S. Coleman
ABSTRACT
The NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is engaged in an ongoing discourse about digital library evaluation. The Educational Impact and Evaluation Standing Committee (EIESC) has successfully identified desirable features in digital libraries such as usability and usage, but the hardest measure is impact. What is the impact of a DL? Members of the EIESC have engaged in pilots and feasibility studies using bricolage (a blend of qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluation), and these activities are moving NSDL toward a richer understanding of impact.
- Coleman, A., Bartolo, L, & Jones, C. Bricoleurs: Exploring Digital Library Evaluation as Participant Interactions, Research and Processes. Proceedings of JCDL 2004. p377. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Coleman, A. & Su, Y. 2004. The NSDL as a testbed for digital library learning research. Project Kaleidoscope IV: What works, what matters, what lasts.Google Scholar
- DLIST. Digital Library for Information Science & Technology http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu.Google Scholar
- EIESC. http://eduimpact.comm.nsdl.org/events/?pager=236.Google Scholar
- Sumner, T., Giersch, S., & Jones, C. Steps towards Establishing Shared Evaluation Goals and Procedures in the National Science Digital Library. Proceedings of JCDL 2003. p407. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Webmetrics in NSDL. http://webmetrics.comm.nsdl.org.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Impact: the last frontier in digital library evaluation
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