For the attention of those in the AIMS Community that are interested to know the results of the survey on "Managing Digital Collections Survey" conducted by DuraSpace from March 25 -April 18, 2014.

More information at Managing Digital Collections Survey Results Summary

Summary

Beginning in December 2013, the DuraSpace not-for -profit organization began collaborating with The Bishoff Group in order to gain a better understanding of the status of digital content creation, management, and preservation activities underway in the non-ARL academic library community as well as to determine how DuraSpace’s open source projects and services could (better) meet the needs of this community.

As part of the  work, DuraSpace commissioned The Bishoff Group to conduct a Managing Digital Collections Survey of non-ARL academic libraries. The purpose of the survey was to collect information that: 

• Determined if non-ARL academic libraries are involved in the management of institutional content, including faculty and student created content, library created/acquired content; and if the repository is locally managed or hosted; 
• Identified responders’ perceptions about the benefits of an institution repository/digital repository (IR/DR);
• Identified current services us ed by responders to support their IR/DR initiatives; 
• Identified future needs and plans for IR/DR services and software; 
• Defined information technology staffing used to support IR/DR; 
• Explored responders’ commitment to digital preservation; and 
• Identified the preservation service/s respondents use and/or are investigating and what prevents them from implementing a preservation program. 

Respondents included 145 institutions across all types of academic li braries comprising two - and four - year colleges, masters, and doctorate granting universities.