From Prototype to Deployable System: Framing the Adoption of Digital Library Services

D'Avolio, Leonard W. and Borgman, Christine L. and Champeny, Leslie and Leazer, Gregory H. and Gilliland, Anne J. and Millwood, Kelli A. From Prototype to Deployable System: Framing the Adoption of Digital Library Services., 2005 . In 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Charlotte (US), 28 October - 2 November 2005. [Conference paper]

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The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project (ADEPT) is a 5-year (1999-2004) effort, with a goal of developing effective models for implementing digital libraries in undergraduate instruction. The ADEPT team has created a digital learning environment (DLE) that adds educational value to a digital library by offering a suite of services for teaching. Encouraged by the results of implementations in undergraduate geography classrooms, the team now shifts its focus from experimental prototype to deployable system. Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theories are used as frameworks for analyzing this complex transition. Recommendations for lowering the barriers to adoption related to complexity, trialability, and observability include the prioritization of development efforts focused on stabilizing the system, the creation of documentation and an online demonstration, and anonymous logins to the system. To increase perceived relative advantage, existing technical and copyright issues in integrating the Alexandria Digital Library must be overcome. To increase compatibility, the speed at which pedagogical change is achieved must be rethought. Finally, recruitment efforts should focus on innovators and early adopters before moving on to early majority, late majority, or laggard adopters.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: digital libraries ; undergraduate instruction ; pedagogy ; Alexandria Digital Library
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
I. Information treatment for information services
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals.
Depositing user: Norm Medeiros
Date deposited: 07 Feb 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6896

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