Workshop on Providing Research Assistance for the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)
July 30, 2008 (2-3pm)
Presented by Missy & Laurie
We will cover the basics of UFDC: searching, advanced searching (including by collection and subcollection), viewing results, and saving images. We will also cover tips and tricks: collections that may be of particular interest to students and researchers, how to view statistics for the collections, using the email contact forms for help, and using the citation on items to find the permanent URL. The rest of the time will be spent discussing how to best use UFDC to help patrons and for our own needs.
- Technical Operations (Laurie)
- Overview of what UFDC has and does (particular collections), basics of searching, results, saving images, help pages
- Tips and Tricks: viewing new items and statistics, PURLs, help forms, UFDC and the catalog
- Overview of how it works for reference/users, scenarios where this might come up and what’s useful to do (Missy)
- Why library users would want to use images and the collection
- Example searches and how they apply to students' projects (demonstrating how to search UFDC, and showing how the results lists work)
- Discussion of questions, ideas, and playing with UFDC
Areas Covered
- Help pages (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=ufdchelp) for answering general questions
- Browsing with thumbnails, new items as thumbnails, full citation information, item thumbnails
- Statistics page (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=ufdchelp&m=hti)
- New items page where anyone can see what loaded most recently and what collection it’s in by collection code
- Collection Codes & Project List
- Tips & Tricks: items on the ?m=han page may not be "fully" online even when on the ?m=han page.
- Weird, cool stuff in UFDC that everyone can use (and UFDC can easily build into these sorts of materials):
Chalk labels
Business card images
PPT slides and exhibits
- Connecting giving pages to collections and collection items/titles