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As a first step, the Executive Committee brainstormed a list of possible criteria without comment or ranking. This list included: - Faculty and community support
- Scholarly significance
- Enhancing the collection's profile
- Project visibility
- Availability of skills locally
- Existing funding commitments
- Ability to attract additional / new funding
- Revenue generation- publishing - sales
- Research support
- Public relations
- Teaching support
- Support for school priorities/ support of University programs
- Breadth of impact
- Attracting new faculty
- Preservation needs
- Uniqueness of material
- Potential for collaboration
The Executive Committee then selected individual criteria and prioritized them according to the nominal group technique exercise (http://www.deboldgroup.com/TQM/nominal.htm). Based on this exercise, the final, rank-ordered list comprised: - Research Support
- Faculty / Community Support
- Teaching Support
- Support of School priorities
- Uniqueness of material
- Enhancing collection's profile
- Existing funding
- Preservation needs
- Ability to attract new funding
- Potential collaboration
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