Thank you so much for all the replies, these are all very helpful! When
building the prototype for this particular page listing digitized
collections, I had put Digital Collections as the header out of habit
essentially because I know that's what we call them. The group working on
the page is
My question would be, why are you trying to keep them separate? Why not group
them all together? People don't want to have to look all over the place to
find what they want. They want it all in one place.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Laura Krier laura.kr...@gmail.com wrote:
I think too often we present our collections to students through the
framework of our own workflows and functional handling of materials
This.
We also try too hard to convey distinctions that aren't important to users
And what percentage try the web before they come you your search,
knowing from experience you separated all the data into some silos
with obscure names. I settled on one overall search with facets in the
result.
Dave Caroline
I've always been inclined to use digital collections to talk about a
collection of things that have been digitized or perhaps including born
digital things that are part of a collection in an archival sort of way.
I prefer the term electronic resources for the databases and other
things...
-Derek
Most patrons won't understand the meanings of digital collections and
electronic resources. We should use terminology that they would use.
My brain is a fog this morning so I don't have any brilliant suggestions
at the moment. There is likely to be UX-type research about this in the
current
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From: Erik Sandall esand...@milibrary.org
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Hi-
We're having a discussion about some web site labeling and navigation. We
have a list of digital collections which are collections that contain
items we've digitized. There was concern expressed that we have something
labeled digital collections patrons might think that includes databases
and
] On Behalf Of Kari R
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And if you are including born-digital material from your library or Archives
and special collections, then you'll want
I haven't done any testing on that, but your understanding it the
conventional on in the field.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Derek Merleaux derek.merle...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've always been inclined to use digital collections to talk about a
collection of things that have been digitized or
And if you are including born-digital material from your library or Archives
and special collections, then you'll want to figure out a way to describe those
digital collections as well (and as different than digitized physical
material). Digital Archives would not, in my opinion, be considered
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Most patrons won't understand the meanings of digital collections
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I agree that articles is incomplete, but I also think sometimes we shoot
ourselves in the feet trying to be totally comprehensive in how we
Of
Laura Krier
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I agree that articles is incomplete, but I also think sometimes we
shoot ourselves in the feet trying to be totally comprehensive in how we
When I did testing to see if patrons knew what digital collections meant, they
generally clicked on the databases link. No one I tested with clicked on
digital collections at all even when they were supposed to, and never chose
that instead of databases. Still musing about solutions--my main
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] talking about digital collections vs electronic
resources
Most patrons won't understand the meanings of digital collections and
electronic resources. We should use terminology that they would use.
My brain is a fog this morning so I don't have any brilliant suggestions
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