Dialectical Inquiry: A Structured Qualitative Research Method
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ARL Profiles 2010:
Capturing Digital Developments
through Qualitative Inquiry
Martha Kyrillidou, ARLColleen Cook, Texas A&M University Libraries
QQML 20124th International Conference on
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in LibrariesMay 22-25, 2012
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ARL Profiles:
Research Libraries 2010
• Serve the public good
• Expand globally
• Set standards
• Explore best practices
• Establish national
and international
visibility
http://www.arl.org/stats/index/profiles/index.shtml
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Pros
• Qualitative approach complementary to ARL
Statistics
• Allows you to tell a story and fill in between the
lines
• Open-ended – talk about what’s important in an
immediate sense rather than limited to predefined
categories
• Celebrate strengths and unique context
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Cons
• A lot of work both for the participants and the interpretation and analysis
• Hard to compare
• Varying levels of quality
• Variations in the narrative style
• Respondents struggled with the openness of the process
• Direction resulted in limiting input to collections, services and collaborative work
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Digitizing special
collections
Developing digital services
Acquiring digital content
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Digitizing Special Collections
• Focus on “distinctive materials and signature
collections”
• A variety of media: photographs, newspapers, films,
audio, manuscripts, postcards, multimedia
• Digitization models:
• Large-scale digitization
• Curated online exhibits
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Why are libraries digitizing
special collections?
• Digitizing primary source materials:
• Supports undergraduate learning
• Provides remote access to collections
• Exposes “hidden” collections
• Furthers the library’s mission
• Enables long-term preservation
• Responds to user preferences
• Increases discovery and use
• Attracts new donations
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How are libraries approaching
digitization projects?
• Funding
• Private donors and foundations
• Government funding agencies
• Collaborations
• with local, regional, national, and international
libraries and consortia
• with companies like Google
• with initiatives like HathiTrust
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http://library.buffalo.edu/pl/collections/jamesjoyce/
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http://digitaltibet.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/
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http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/
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http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/chc.php
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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BC6ED608833963D&feature=plcp
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Acquiring and creating
digital content
• Locally created, born-digital content
• Electronic theses and dissertations
• Course materials
• Open Access journals
• Harvested and aggregated web content
• Purchased electronic content
• E-books
• E-journals
• Databases
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Institutional repositories
• Contain electronic theses and dissertations, technical
reports, course materials, Open Access journals
• Libraries reported high use (both deposit and
downloads)
• Departments or other groups may manage their own
content, without library mediation
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http://uair.arizona.edu/
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http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/
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https://circle.ubc.ca/
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Tools for the Digital Era
• Enhancing access and discovery
• Federated search
• Open source software for cataloging, digital libraries,
citation management, etc.
• Website redesigns
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http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/software.html
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http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/
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http://kuali.org/about/partners
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Services for the Digital Era
• Faculty research services
• Developing institutional repositories and hosting OA
journals
• Providing data management services
• Virtual reference
• Electronic document delivery
• Course management systems
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ARL Profiles:
Research Libraries 2010
• Serve the public good
• Expand globally
• Set standards
• Explore best practices
• Establish national
and international
visibility
http://www.arl.org/stats/index/profiles/index.shtml