Institutional Repositories: Beyond the Technology

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Institutional Repositories Beyond the Technology
10 June 2004

• Susan Gibbons
• Asst. Dean, Public Services Collection
  Development
• River Campus Libraries
• University of Rochester
• sgibbons_at_library.rochester.edu

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Non-Technology Issues

• Theory vs. Practice
• Content recruitment strategies
• Policies

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Theory vs. Practice

• If you build it, will they come?
• IMLS grant- Faculty work practice study
• What are the compelling reasons?

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Early Grant Findings

• Disciplinary differences
• Career stage differences
• Personalization of the space
• Authoring needs

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Content Recruitment

• Important task
• Tailored marketing
• Ancillary services

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Strategies

• Examine institutions website
• Examine facultys homepages
• Retiring faculty
• Involvement with open access
• Bibliographers

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Policies

• Balancing act
• Questions to address
• Who can submit?
• What can be submitted?
• Who owns the content?
• What if person leaves?
• Can content be withdrawn?

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Recommendations

• Lots of conversations with faculty
• Bibliographers
• Range of potential uses
• Dont reinvent the wheel
• Borrow policies
• Borrow content recruitment strategies
• Borrow service and staffing models
• ARL, CNI, EDUCAUSE, SPARC, etc.