Assessment

The California Digital Library conducts regular assessment of its collections and services. Through evaluation activities such as needs assessments, surveys, usability testing, focus groups, and monitoring usage statistics, the CDL develops a better understanding of the needs of patrons and their use of digital content and services.

Evaluation and Assessment Activities

• Selected Recent Reports (all reports)
• E-books: Understanding the Basics: A brief article about the basics of e-books and e-book readers. [PDF]
• UC-eLinks Direct Linking Usability Report: Findings from a round of usability testing performed on UC-eLinks Direct Linking in January 2009 at UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• Communication and Collaboration: Priorities and Perspectives on the UC Libraries-CDL Partnership: Final report of findings and recommendations from the CDL Spring 2006 assessment project, including interviews conducted at all ten UC campuses. [PDF]
• CDL Assessment Program Toolkit: An overview of different assessment methods, including focus groups, user interviews, online surveys, usability testing, and others. [PDF]



• Evaluation Liaisons

Usage Statistics Data

• Aggregated usage statistics reports: Listed by year. Includes reports on CDL collections, ejournal articles, database searches, and others.
• Vendor Usage Statistics Access for UC Libraries 2009: Provides URLs and passwords for vendor usage statistics platforms. [password-protected] [PDF]
• Vendor statistics available on the CDL site: For vendors who do not provide statistics on their own web sites, the CDL posts their statistics here.
• UC-eLinks statistics: Monthly statistics. March 2002—present


• CDL web site statistics: Monthly statistics. March 1999—January 2003
• CDL-hosted database via web statistics: Weekly statistics. January 1999—July 2003
• Telnet Melvyl and CDL-hosted databases statistics: Weekly and monthly statistics. January 1999—June 2003
• CDL-hosted databases Z39.50 server statistics: Weekly and monthly reports for the general Z39.50 server and specific databases. January 1999—June 2003
• SearchLight statistics: Monthly statistics. January 2000—August 2005