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Greetings: The Reuse<https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment:User/Reuse> subgroup of DLF's Assessment Interest Group<https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment> is thrilled to announce we have received a 2017 IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries<https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/national-leadership-grants-libraries> award (LG-73-17-0002-17)<https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-73-17-0002-17> to fund "Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects," a project that will research the needs for and ideal functionality of a toolkit for assessing the reuse of digital library objects! Starting in July 2017, the Project Team will conduct a year-long formal needs assessment, which will include data collection, analysis, and dissemination. Data collection will occur through in-person and virtual focus group sessions as well as via pre- and post-surveys. Additionally, we will form an advisory group to provide critical feedback on methods used for data collection and analysis, and on the drafting of final recommendations. The team will also share our progress and results through regular posts to the project website (coming soon), at selected conferences, and via future publications. Throughout the project, we will engage a diverse and knowledgeable community of practitioners to ensure that the defined needs of the assessment toolkit are collaboratively developed by the groups that will employ the final product. To learn more about the project, and the groups that support our team, see: * "IMLS Funds DLF 'Reuse' Assessment Framework"<https://www.diglib.org/archives/13980/> a blog post on the DLF Blog<https://www.diglib.org/news/> that announces the project and provides more background information * IMLS Grant Abstract (Log Number: LG-73-17-0002-17)<https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-73-17-0002-17>, which will soon include a draft narrative of "Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects" * DLF Assessment Interest Group Wiki<https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment> (Reuse Team here<https://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment:User/Reuse>) * Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects Project Team website - coming soon. We would like to thank the IMLS for its generous financial support, the staff of CLIR/DLF for their continued support and guidance in making this grant application (and funded award) possible, our colleagues in other DLF AIG Working Groups for their critical input and feedback on the design of our project, and our home institutions for giving us the opportunity to engage in this exciting work. We look forward to collaborating with you all over the next year to make sense of content reuse. Project Team Genya O'Gara (Virtual Library of Virginia) Elizabeth Kelly (Loyola University New Orleans) Caroline Muglia (University of Southern California) Ayla Stein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Santi Thompson (University of Houston) Liz Woolcott (Utah State University) Santi Thompson, Head of Digital Research Services University Libraries University of Houston A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university 713-743-9685 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0337-6439 ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce