Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Subject Specialist Networks

The subject specialist networks, funded through the Renaissance in the Regions programme, are now beginning to think about cataloguing their digital resources in MICHAEL. I've been contacted recently by one of the SSNs, who was interested to know if we thought that it was useful to send out a questionnaire as a starting point for data entry. It It seems to me that, as we all suffer slightly from receiving too many questionnaires, that if used they should be brief - perhaps just asking for the title, a brief description, the digital formats available and where the collection is made accessible (eg the URL). This should give enough information to start. But it would be useful to hear from others, especially if you have had sucess in using questionnaires.