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Digital Projects Mission


The Digital Projects department is dedicated to organizing, preserving and promoting work produced at Stephen F. Austin State University and at partnering cultural and historic institutions through the TIDES Digital Repository, and to researching and utilizing new technologies in order to develop innovative, user-centered education models that meet the growing information needs of academic and community partners.

Initiative 1:

Scholarly and community research: Digital Projects will provide the virtual infrastructure to support the SFA community of scholars and artists by establishing the TIDES Institutional Repository. Digital Projects will also facilitate open access to the TIDES Digital Repository by continuing to organize and preserve the digital library (including images, video and audio) within the database.

Strategies:

  1. Create guidelines for adding materials to the TIDES Institutional Repository.
  2. Pursue collaborative partnerships within the SFASU community as well as with other libraries, museums, and cultural and educational organizations in order to increase TIDES resources.
  3. Maintain preservation best practices for digital materials in the repository.
  4. Adopt relevant thesauri in order to create user-centered collection metadata.
  5. Develop TIDES websites and portals to promote user-centered access to collections. Evaluate and make adjustments as needed in order to ensure optimal accessibility.
  6. Create a marketing campaign in order to raise visibility of and access to services, projects and programs.

Initiative 2:

Service Learning: Digital Projects will provide a forum where faculty, staff and students can combine emerging technologies with their educational interests in order to meet identified community needs.

Strategies:

  1. Identify the compelling needs and issues present in TIDES target communities.
  2. Work with graduate and undergraduate students to incorporate their academic skills in TIDES program outreach initiatives (including but not limited to the TIDES K-12, Teacher, and Community web sites).
  3. Collaborate with faculty to develop apprenticeship and research opportunities based on students’ coursework and TIDES digital repository collections.
  4. Publish participant project results and experiences in the TIDES Institutional Repository.

Initiative 3:

P20 (Pre-School – Graduate School) Learning: Digital Projects will promote accessible digital repository resources by aligning digital resources with P20 educational initiatives.

Strategies:

  1. Seek out collaborative opportunities to enhance TIDES P20 digital resources.
  2. Coordinate TIDES P20 initiatives with educational best practices and college readiness standards.
  3. Provide training and workshops on how to integrate digital technology and TIDES online resources into classrooms and community programs.