Thoughts on the new departments, and adding a survey to our cover pages

1. Since the Dept. of Health Science ( http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hls/ ) is splitting into two new departments, I definitely agree that it’s good to establish a workflow for how to handle similar situations. I think it’s great that you’ve already noted this in the introductory text.
- We recommend reviewing a discussion on this topic in the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/digitalcommons/cewmhdniCgI/w-npbnYFqigJ (Harrison’s Inefuku’s referenced papers are at http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_conf/1/ and http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_conf/2/ )
- Regarding the Department of Health Science community, it’s important to consider whether you’d like to keep this community present or hide it from the communities.html page, but it’s up to you.
- Since you said you don’t yet have content for the two departments, you can hold off on creating them for now and simply note the Department Chair information in the Introductory Text for this community (or even list them both in the one field). However, it can be helpful to consider either: A) Creating only the communities for each and noting that content will be forthcoming or B) Creating publications and collecting content from the relevant publications.
- I also want to mention that there may be some fields in your repository called “Department” with a drop-down list. We’re always happy to add new departments, so let us know if there are any publications that you’d like updated.

2. Regarding adding a survey to PDF cover pages, we can absolutely support adding a link. First you’ll want to create your survey using a campus or third-party website, and then provide us with a link, how you’d like it to read, and where it should appear. If we add it to the PDFs, we will regenerate the PDFs in the repository for you.

11/24/2015

Effective July 1, 2015 the Department of Health Science is now two separate units…

Department of Healthcare Studies (Patti Follansbee is the chair)

Department of Public Health and Health Education (Jennifer Boyle is the chair)

Can you create those two new units.   After each could you state ‘Effective July 1, 2015’. 

For the ‘Health Science’ that already exists, could you state (prior to July 1, 2015).  That way we don’t have to separate the entities.

Also, could you create a Dean’s collection?  I have several things I would like to upload but they’re more for the School, rather than a department.