As part of the Digital Services Programme, three new positions are being advertised. Closing date is 28 February 2022 User Experience Officer Contribute to world-class education and research as User Experience Officer at TU Delft Library. Your UX-enhancing changes will help students, researchers and university teachers fully benefit from our library’s services and vast repository..
The Digital Services Programme is broken into five streams, plus the Innovation Funnel. This Google slideshow gives an update on progress as of November 2021
The budget for the Digital Services Programme was approved by the College van Bestuur on 26 October 2021. Role Project Stream 2022 2023 2024 1. Programme Officer General € 65 € 65 € 65 2. Project Manager *2 General €160 €160 €160 3. Service Renewal Service Design € 150 € 175 € 200 4. Website..
Brainstorming sessions held as part of our ‘rethinking the repository’ project quickly landed on the importance of thinking about (digital) collections as a way to structure the requirements for a new repository. For each different digital format that we as a library collect or manage (eg., research articles, masters’ theses, recordings of lectures, digitised special..
Various topics were discussed in the light of the original blogpost Hosting on behalf of others There was a strong recommendation to avoid hosting content from external (ie non TU Delft) parties via the repository. There had been previous arrangements to host content purchased by faculties, or owned by third parties – this had led..
TU Delft Library recently held the first brainstorm meeting to rethink the Library Repository. While the initial theme of the discussion was the repository, the conversation quickly moved away from the repository and focussed more on the content contained within them. To think about a repository infrastructure first needs thinking about (digital) collections. What collections..
One of the key parts of the Digital Service Programme is to update the strategic direction and technical infrastructure of the TU Delft Library Repository. The current repository infrastructure serves many functions. Based on Islandora, along with various other components, it acts a mechanism for searching and downloading Green Open Access research articles, doctoral theses,..
By following the link below, you can find TU Delft Library’s public list of all the services it offers Google spreadsheet of TU Delft Library services This list has been developed in consultation with all the ‘owners’ of services within the Library. Each owner was encouraged to describe their service by using a verb rather..
Following discussion and a presentation by Irene Haslinger and Alastair Dunning, the TU Delft College van Bestuur approved the plans for the Digital Services Programme. A full programme description (called Terms of Reference) is to be presented in the autumn. An online version of the presentation is available here.
As the digital shift pulls libraries away from their former roles of providing spaces to sit and books to read, the number of services that a library offers will grow. At TU Delft, this includes services that allow users to, for example, Record & stream their lectures (New Media Centre Collegerama) Publish their data or..