Computer Science Homework Help
Purdue University Digital Library Analysis
Pick one of the digital libraries below. If you would rather, you may pick a digital library that is not on the list.
Look through the site and write an analysis of the digital library using the questions below as prompts.
Purdue – http://www.lib.purdue.edu
Yale – http://www.library.yale.edu/
MIT – http://libraries.mit.edu
Washington State – http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/
Penn State – https://libraries.psu.edu/
University of Illinois – http://www.library.illinois.edu/
University of Georgia – http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome
University of Nebraska – http://libraries.unl.edu/
New York Public Library – http://www.nypl.org/
Can you find:
– Library organization
Can you find the Library Mission statement?
Is there a separate mission statement for the digital program?
Is there a separate digital library or digital collections department?
Can you find a list of active digital project?
-/Roles and staffing
Can you identify digital collections/digital library staff?
Can you determine the percentage of staff involved in the digital program?
– Collections
Are digital collections integrated or separate?
Can you find “collections”?
Can you determine the “goodness”?
Can you find a collection statement (a paragraph or two that describes the holdings)?
– Services
What digital services are offered?
Are services available for patrons?
– Architecture
Can you identify separate systems for the collections such as archival collections, images, maps, etc.?
Is there a high level search function?