Bricoleurs: exploring digital library evaluation as participant interactions, research, and processes

Author

Coleman, Anita S. ; Bartolo, Laura ; Jones, Casey

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Resources & Libr. Sci., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 June 2004

Firstpage

377

Abstract

The NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is working to develop community-based processes for implementing shared evaluation goals and instruments among its distributed library network to examine library usage, collections growth, and library governance processes. The bricoleur modality of evaluation research is one that integrates scientific methods as well as humanistic values. These activities are helping to provide the foundation for the development of a scientific program of digital library evaluation that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Keywords

digital libraries; NSDL; NSF-funded National Science Digital Library; bricoleur modality; community-based process; distributed library network evaluation; educational digital libraries; participatory evaluation design; scientific program; Art; Central office; Educational institutions; Information resources; Information retrieval; Instruments; Software libraries; Support vector machine classification; Support vector machines; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-58113-832-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336156

Filename

1336156