Learning from LUCI: Faculty Perceptions of Digital Image Services

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Learning from LUCI Faculty Perceptions of
Digital Image Services
 
 
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Library of University of California Images

• Searchable Data Bank of Digital Images with
  Descriptive Data on the Web
• 1997 Pilot Project to Build a UC VR Union Catalog
  with 7 Participating Campuses
• Intended for Multiple Educational Purposes
• 5,000 Images of Classical Antiquity California
  Art and Built Environments

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UC Image Service Demonstrator Project (UCIS)

• Federate UC Digital Collections with Licensed
  Image Content
• Develop an Operational Service with Lunas
  Insight as the Platform of Choice
• Collaborate with Libraries, Archives, Museums,
  and VR Collections

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UCIS

• Shared Resources Expertise
• CDL Leadership and Technology
• UC Libraries Licensed Images Content
• Museums and VR Collections Content
• Small Project Team with Representatives from Each
  Interest Group
• Federated 250,000 Digital Images in 6 Months -
  Annual Report March 2004

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Task Force on Digital Visual Resources Planning -
Layered Service Model
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UCIS Assessment

• If You Build It, Will They Come?
• What Do Patrons Need and Want?
• Explore Usability Issues
• Usefulness of the Image Service
• Support Issues
• Technological Capabilities/Limitations

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UCIS Assessment

• One Hour Interview
• Discuss Present Use of Digital Images
• Hands-On Image Service Without Prior Training
• Demonstration of Insight Functionality
• Questionaire

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UCIS Interviews

• Some (Mis)Understanding Digital Imaging and the
  Concept of Presentation Software
• Time Investment and Resistance to Changing Tools
• Inevitability of having to Use Digital Images in
  the Classroom All Informants Expect to be Using
  Digital Images in the Classroom within the Next
  Three Years
• Student and Peer Pressure a Driving Force

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UCIS Content

• Discovery and Surprise at Breadth of Content
• Wheres my Stuff?
• Variable Quality
• Speed not an Issue
• Functionality

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Insight Features

• Juxtaposition
• Zooming
• Descriptive Data
• Searching
• Grouping
• Presentations
• Exporting
• Printing

• Annotations
• Web Links
• Audio
• Video
• Scale/Measurement
• Multiviews
• Multipage Documents
• Personal Collections

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UCIS Issues

• Classroom Readiness
• Connecting with Instructional Technology Staff
  about Smart Classrooms
• Up-to-Date, Accessible Computers
• High Quality Projection Systems
• Integration with Other Learning Management
  Systems
• Technical Support
• Inspiring Confidence in Digital Image Delivery
• Bandwidth
• Network Connectivity
• Off Campus Access Want to Work at Home
• 24/7 Availability

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Informants Voices

• We all share slides. . . . Somebody could be
  using it and I could be using it at the same
  time.
• Its quite clear already that theres more good
  material here for sophisticated kinds of online
  student reviews.
• Thats beautiful impasto. Thats sensational!
  about a Saskia image
• Having all those images available away from home
  and to be able to teach with them is fabulous,
  especially if you can incorporate other sources.
• The system itself is enticing enough, after
  today I have every intention of putting something
  together to use in my class.
• To me its a revelation that it is even
  possible. . .

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UCIS Successes

• 2 UCB faculty members using it in the classroom
• 2 UCI art historians who explained they would
  probably never change from slides to digital
  images, but then wanted to use it next term
• 1 UCI arts and technology education faculty
  member willing to test it in teacher training but
  would like the K-12 schools to be able to access
  it
• 1 UCSB tech savvy art historian already using
  PowerPoint in the classroom is eager to mine it
  for images
• 1 advanced graduate student was skeptical about
  the quality and functionality of digital images,
  but then predicted the death of slide projector
• ALL felt the image service is valuable enough to
  spend some time learning how to use it

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Assessment Conclusions

• Small, Focused Qualitative Study Not
  Generalizable to All Situations
• Enough Data to Provide Patterns and a Feel for
  how a Research Institution Context, i.e. UC
  Patrons, Perceive such an Image Service
• More than Anecdotal when Meshed with other
  Library and VR Experiences

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Assessment Team

• CDLs Rosalie Lack, Research Team Leader
• Maureen Burns, UCI, Assistant Researcher
  Contact MABURNS_at_UCI.EDU
• Jackie Spafford (UCSB-AH), Jan Eklund (UCB-AH),
  Mary Elings (UCB-Bancroft), Bill Landis (UCI-LL),
  Rick Rinehart (UCB-MOAC), Maryly Snow, (UCB-ARCH)
  

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Communication/Collaboration

• Consulted Henry Pisciotta and other members of
  the Penn State VIUS research team. Henry and the
  Director of the UCIS will be presenting more at
  upcoming Digital Library Federation conference.
• Share Information and Learn from Multiple
  Experiences

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What Its Going to Take

• Ongoing Assessment - A Beginning Not the End
• Increase the Comfort Levels of Librarians and VR
  Curator Facilitators
• Daunting Task of Getting Faculty to Use It
• Need Training Opportunities, Users Guides,
  Workshops, 1-on-1 Support
• Want Reassurance of Longevity Ongoing Support

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Improved Perceptions and Relations with Faculty