1. DLG/HomePLACE Services Overview and Focus Group
Sheila McAlister, DLG
Angela Stanley, GPLS (Georgia HomePLACE)
GALILEO Users Conference
July 12, 2018

2. Overview of DLG’s Services

3. DLG’s Current Services
Free Services
Best practice guides and toolkits
Consulting
Grant proposal development assistance
Hosting of access or master files
Metadata funneling to DPLA
Metadata hosting
Metadata harvesting/ingest
Quarterly newsletter
Subgranting
Training (on-site and virtual)
Cost Recovery Services
Conversion
Digital preservation
Metadata creation
Hosting of finding aid databases
Hosting of archival management systems

4. Overview of DLG Services Survey

5. Types of Institutions
DLG services survey was open between October 2017 and January 2018.
Purpose: to determine what types of services our partners want so can guide development priorities, primarily aimed at partner organizations in keeping with GALILEO’s strategic plan goals.
Since small sample size, going to solicit information in other ways-- interviews and the focus group today.
67 responses bulk of which came from public libraries (one library system submitted 9 responses which we averaged together)
Over all,

6. Digitization Services
The average of all the responses (based on an average of each of the institution types) >3.95 for all the digitization services

7. Technology Hosting
By far the least desired of the technology hosting options was open journal systems hosting
The biggest hosting priorities (marked VERY USEFUL) are access file hosting, archival mgmt/finding aid hosting, DAMS hosting; newspaper hosting; master file storage; and a state-wide finding aid database.
Of these services categorized as VERY USEFUL, DAMS hosting and a state-wide finding aid database would be new services as we currently offer the others although AMS and finding aid public access on a limited basis.

8. Consulting and Training
Across the board, our partners are asking for training and consultation services. We will begin surveying our partners to determine webinar topics and hope to launch a webinar program in late We’re working to expose our documentation more fully via the participate link on the new website and will be adding new content to the documentation site.
While a partner conference and pre-conferences didn’t rank as high as very useful for the aggregate, our more specialized partners (college special collections and museums ) indicated a desire for face-to-face meetings.

9. Statistics and Analytics

10. Educational Support Materials

11. HomePLACE Overview

12. Through HomePLACE, public libraries can find funding and guidance for digitization projects, as well as support for archives training and the preservation of special collections.

13. Priority Services

14. Sampling of HomePLACE Projects
Vanishing Georgia
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Georgia Historic Newspaper projects
The 1936 Gainesville Tornado
Athens, Georgia City Directories
African-American Funeral Programs
Auburn Avenue Finding Aids
Industrial Films of the Georgia Marble Company
Hall County Black History Photograph collection
Record of Macon’s Douglass Theatre
Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia
Columbia County Soil Conservation Photos
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes
Jim Alexander’s Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center
Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary
Early Walker County Papers
Athens Woman’s Club
The Georgia State Fair
Gordon County, GA Obituaries
Hall County Historical Photograph Collection
Rees Stereographs
Historic Postcards from Augusta
Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary
J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, GA
Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia
Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project

15. Georgia’s Public Libraries in DLG
⅓ of DLG content partners
57% have content in DLG
Over 40,000 digital objects

16. A Quick Look 63 public library systems 407 facilities 2,701 FTEs
633 State-certified public librarians
70,229,128 visits
75+ libraries with special collections
14 libraries with dedicated paid special collections staff

17. Collections Focus Areas

18. Available Formats

19. Patrons

20. What Patrons Want Digitized

21. Greatest Challenges

22. Focus group

23. Were you aware of variety of services DLG and HomePLACE provide
Were you aware of variety of services DLG and HomePLACE provide? If not, how can we communicate them to you better?

24. What are the biggest challenges for your digitization or archival technology projects?

25. What services that DLG doesn’t currently provide do you want or need?
digitization
hosting (technology)
training/consulting
assessment
educational outreach

26. What can we do better?