1. Assessing Risk
to Drive Decision
Making
Liz Bishoff, The Bishoff Group
Judy Cobb, Manager Digital Platforms, OhioLINK
Meghan Frazer, Manager Technology Integration, OhioLINK
November 10, 2016
2. About OhioLINK
Academic Library Consortium
121 Member Libraries sharing 46
million physical items
18 TB of centrally provided digital
resources:
● 26 million electronic journal
articles
● 160 thousand items in DSpace
● 60 thousand ETDs
● 58 thousand eBooks
3. Needs Assessment: Project Objectives
Develop organizational understanding of mandate to assure long
term access to shared collections
Create an environmental scan showing strengths, weakness,
opportunities and threats (SWOT) for each of the collections
Develop a list of recommendations/strategies to address needs
4. Risk Assessment: “Isn’t back-up enough?”
Digital preservation vs back-up
Risk Assessment
○ NDSA Levels of Preservation
○ JISC’s AIDA Tool
Now Assessing Organizational Readiness toolkit
https://dart.blogs.ulcc.ac.uk/category/aor-toolkit/
Collection based assessment included collection managers, IT
support staff, member library representative
8. Decision Making: Conclusions
Adjusted messaging to “long term access”
Confirmed preservation commitment and priority collections
Determined that locally managed repository was best strategy
Established a IT buy-in through shared risk assessment process
9. Action Steps
Communicated to stakeholders risk of not moving forward
Initiated an RFP Process for a Digital Preservation Platform
Created dedicated position to manage digital preservation program
10. Lessons Learned
● Risk analysis worked to drive process
● Stakeholder participation is critical
● Inventory existing risk and disaster related policies and
procedures
● Will always be implementation challenges
○ IT “buy in” vs. IT “getting things done”
○ Adding a vendor into the mix