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This session will highlight successful strategies at two institutions for gaining participation in institutional repositories. Librarians from Southern Illinois University Carbondale will discuss their experience in designing and implementing an effective marketing program, recruiting content and expanding collections. Librarians from Kansas State University will describe their best practices focusing on the pivotal role of library liaisons and value-added services in ensuring the success of the institutional repository.
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TARA BAILLARGEONBETH TURTLE
Digging for Buried Treasure: Strategies for Promoting Institutional Repositories
ER&LFebruary 2, 2010
Digging for Buried Treasure: Strategies for Promoting Institutional Repositories
“Libraries cannot afford to hide behind technology by creating passive services that emphasize access over real contact with real researchers” - Stuart Basefsky
Background
K-State’s Repository Services Team (RST) Led a pilot project to establish a model for a
sustainable institutional repository (IR) Kansas State Research Exchange (K-REx) Comprised of 3 liaison librarians, K-REx Coordinator,
cataloger, and systems analyst from Digital Initiatives Department.
Importance of Liaisons
In the midst of a paradigm shift among faculty
Target influential facultyLiaisons know the “hook”
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Importance of Liaisons
Becoming more integrated into faculty workflows Collaborating on grants, co-writing papers,
contributing to curriculum development, and even voting on departmental issues
Reorganizing
Content Management/Scholarly Communication Division Scholarly Communications and Publishing Dept. Identify value added services
Graduate/Faculty Services Department Work closely with Scholarly Communications and
Publishing Dept. Identify needed value-added services
Value-Added Services
Campus Research Distribution Strategies “Universities must shift from a passive role in
research distribution to an active one” (David Shulenburger, Assoc of Public & Land Grant Universities)
IRs are one part of these strategies
Value Added Services are another
The Institution Faculty & Students
Must reflect mission and benefits to…
Strategies Address
Institutions want to increase impact, visibility, prestige, funding
Faculty want Help with workflows Share teaching materials Identify campus collaborators Promote research labs Store & deposit research data To be found, used and cited
(Maness, Miaskiewicz, Sumner. D-Lib Magazine, 2008 and Foster, Gibbons, D-Lib Magazine, Jan 2005)
Reinvent your IR - focus on Services
• Services expand the narrow focus of the IR; extract more value
• Give our users what they want
Library as Publisher
Many libraries creating digital imprintsPartnering with university pressesPublish journals, monographs, undergraduate
work, conference proceedings
Digitization Services
Consulting on standards, best practicesContract to do work in-houseWork with faculty to digitize collections of
slides, photographs, print materials, etc
Data Management/Curation
“Data is the currency of science, even if publications are still the currency of tenure. To be able to exchange data, communicate it, mine it, reuse it, and review it is essential to scientific productivity, collaboration, and to discovery itself” (Gold, 2007)
Growing demand to include research datasets in IRs Life Cycle: Create, Acquire, Archive, Preserve, Share,
Reuse Librarians incorporated in research process from
beginning to end
Other Services
Copyright/intellectual property servicesProfile research/scholarship and identify
collaborators Researcher pages E-Portfolios
Promote undergraduate workDocument mgt systems & storage of
files/versions for editing
References
Gold, Anna. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part I. D-Lib Magazine. Sept/Oct 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/gold/09/gold-pt1.html
Foster, N. and S. Gibbons. Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories, D-Lib Magazine. Jan 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html
Maness Jack, T. Miaskiewicz, and T. Sumner. Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users. D-Lib Magazine, 2008. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september08/maness/09maness.html
Basefsky, Stuart. The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role for Libraries, June 16, 2009. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/29/
Thank you!
For more information, please contact
Tara Baillargeon, Kansas State [email protected]
Beth Turtle, Kansas State [email protected]