Digital decisions: user-driven digitization

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to determine digitization selection strategies to optimize usage by examining digital collections at Stockton University, comparing the library-driven projects to the community-driven ones.

Design/methodology/approach

Case study of digitization selection strategy for Special Collections and University Archives, comparing library-driven to community-driven approaches.

Findings

Based on webpage analytics of the digital collections, community-driven digitization projects are more successful than library-driven ones.

Research limitations/implications

As a case study, this paper only analyzes a select number of digital collections from one institution.

Practical implications

Those responsible for digitization selection may wish to allow community members to propose collections for digitization.

Originality/value

To the authors’ best knowledge, no other known studies have used user analytics to compare community-driven digitization projects to library-driven ones.

Citation

Sussmeier, S. and Perez, H. (2021), "Digital decisions: user-driven digitization", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-02-2021-0007