Tips for success with the Digital Collections Stewardship training

Tips for success with the Digital Collections Stewardship training


  1. Go through the training with a partner, if possible. This helps with motivation and accountability and gives you someone to share ideas and plan with. For Digital Collections Stewardship training in particular, it's important that more than one person in your organization understands the many aspects of digital stewardship so that digital collections can be perpetually stewarded.
     
  2. Join or organize a learning group. Either formal or informal learning groups add value to almost any on-demand learning experience. By organizing group learning around a course, you don’t need a trainer to guide you through the content, just someone to organize and facilitate. OCLC WebJunction have wrote a Learning Group Facilitators Guide to assist anyone to organize a successful learning group around these courses.
     
  3. Get buy-in and work with your manager. Make sure your manager knows that you’re taking this training and take time to discuss your goals with them. Make sure you’re aligned on how you’ll use what you learn in this training to contribute to a specific digital project or initiative at your organization. Your manager can also help you determine who else you might need to get buy-in from to begin your work. If you’d like more information on this training to give to your manager, download the one-page overview.
     
  4. Manage your time: We know that it can be difficult to make time for a self-paced training when you also have to do your job! We recommend blocking time on your calendar for this training every week. Again, make sure your manager knows about this so they can help you protect your time.
     
  5. Create a regular study space and stay organized. Set up a dedicated learning environment for studying that helps minimize distractions. By completing your work there repeatedly, you’ll begin to establish a routine.
     
  6. Understand Accessibility Options: All course videos are close-captioned and downloadable.
     
  7. Consider your Community’s Cultural Checks: We’ll provide examples of cultural checks throughout the training to help you customize your work to meet your institutional, community, and cultural needs and values. In these “cultural checks”, we’ll share tips on how you might customize how you apply the training, along with questions you may need to reflect on.

Last modified: 04/26/2022