ARCHIVING OF COMPS, HONORS PAPERS & PRIZE-WINNING STUDENT WORK

In 2009, the faculty approved a College policy on Digital Archiving of Comps and Honors Papers.   That policy can be found at https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/help/help/digital_comps/

The intent of this policy is to systematically collect & archive significant student work in a digital form.   The digital archive is a “dark archive” and can be accessed only by Carleton faculty or their designees (e.g. departmental assistants) and staff in institutional research & assessment.  The Carleton Student Work Archive can be accessed at https://comps.carleton.edu with your Carleton username and password.

Since Spring 2009, students in all academic departments have been submitting their comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works for digital archiving.  As of Oct 2010, the digital archive of Carleton Student Work contained more than 440 student papers & projects.

Department chairs should ensure that all faculty, staff and students in their departments are aware of the College’s goal of archiving significant student work and discuss how the submission of their department’s student work for digital archiving can become a routine process.  A number of departments have already incorporated digital archiving into their list of comps completion steps.

The online submission form for students can be found at https://contentdm.carleton.edu/comps/

It can accommodate both individual and group submissions (i.e. a single comps project carried out by a group of students.)  Direct submission by students is preferable to having a departmental assistant do the submission, due to the specific nature of the descriptive information needed.  By completing the submission form and digital file/s, the student is agreeing to allow the College to archive his/her work.

More archiving instructions and FAQs can be found at https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/help/help/digital_comps/

To have a departmental assistant added to the list of those who can access the Student Work Archive, please contact Dave Flynn, x7836 or dflynn@carleton.edu

If you have questions or would like to discuss comps archiving procedures for your department, please contact Carol Eyler, Comps Archiving Coordinator, x4268 or ceyler@carleton.edu