Contribution to Book
Impact: The Last Frontier for Digital Library Evaluation
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
(2005)
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.
Keywords
- Community-based Digital Libraries,
- Distributed Evaluation,
- Educational Digital Libraries
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 7, 2005
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN
1-58113-876-8
DOI
10.1145/1065385.1065475
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Citation Information
Anita S. Coleman, Laura M. Bartolo and Casey Jones. "Impact: The Last Frontier for Digital Library Evaluation" New YorkProceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries (2005) p. 372 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anita-coleman/85/