ROLE OF LIBRARIAN IN MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

Bulletin of the American Society for …, 2009

Valdosta State University (VSU) has worked for two years to implement an institutional repository (IR), Vtext, to centralize, present, and preserve the intellectual output of our scholars and students in ways not currently supported by traditional library and publication models. To investigate VSU faculty members' scholarly communication behavior and attitudes toward institutional repositories, a survey questionnaire was distributed. It showed a rich vein of unpublished scholarly materials that needs to be preserved and disseminated via the IR and revealed faculty members' willingness to participate in the initiative.

Reference Services …, 2005

The development of institutional repositories has typically involved administrative and technical staff from libraries and campuses, with little input from reference librarians and subject specialists. Reference librarians have vital roles to play in helping to recruit authors to submit their content to institutional repositories, as well as in educating users to search such repositories effectively and retrieve the scholarly content from them. The experience that reference librarians have in searching a wide array of databases also enables them to provide a useful perspective on the design of effective search interfaces for institutional repositories. Experience at the University of Oregon demonstrates the efficacy of involving reference librarians in the design and development of an institutional repository from the beginning.

2011

Modern trend of globalization and rapid technological changes have given many challenges to the library profession. Information technology made a significant impact on knowledge management and knowledge repositories. Today profession has to struggle hard to sustain and survive its status, which was not earlier realized and felt. At the same time advent of technological advances have added prestige to the professional, provided its application are used effectively to benefit the users of information by providing them whatever whenever wherever information is needed. Today’s library has no library hrs, no place and no institution. Online access to large number of resources has resulted into de-institutionalization breaking all boundaries of accessibility and availability. Today’s users have no patience and cannot wait for information. He expects information on a single click on his laptop, iPod or even on mobile. He prefers to search on universal catalogue or on knowledge access syste...

Collection Management, 2010

The collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is increasingly subject to significant change as opportunities to build new types of library collections proliferate, particularly with respect to research data. A Purdue Libraries task force was charged with building facultyproduced collections for a data repository prototype. One purpose of the project was to inventory and characterize the resources and skills required of the Libraries and its data-collecting librarians. This paper examines the librarian roles and activities that were identified during the project and suggests ways the experience of the task force can inform the roles and activities of librarians who are similarly charged.

D Lib Magazine, 2008

In this article, we tackle the ubiquitous problems of slow adoption and low deposit rates often seen in recently created institutional repositories. The article begins with a brief description of the implementation process of RepositoriUM, the institutional repository of the University of Minho, and moves on to thoroughly describe the set of activities included in a strategic plan specially designed to undertake the previously outlined problems. Among those activities are the development of an adequate promotional plan, development of value-added services for authors, engagement in the international community and definition of a self-archiving mandate policy. The article also provides some figures on the results of the strategic plan and explores future initiatives being devised to further increase the adoption of the repository.

Library Hi Tech News, 2005

Continually increasing journal costs have pushed libraries and research institutions to consider alternative forms of scholarly publication. One such form is that of the institutional digital repository (IR). As an early implementer of DSpace, an open-source institutional digital repository software product, IUPUI offers those just beginning to think about IRs an overview of issues such as: choosing a repository platform, staffing and technology needs, metadata and controlled vocabulary concerns, promotion, and time challenges. While the article outlines the process IUPUI followed to create its own IR, the piece is universalized to address the concerns of any new IR implementer.

2008

In this article, we tackle the ubiquitous problems of slow adoption and low deposit rates often seen in recently created institutional repositories. The article begins with a brief description of the implementation process of RepositoriUM, the institutional repository of the University of Minho, and moves on to thoroughly describe the set of activities included in a strategic plan specially designed to undertake the previously outlined problems. Among those activities are the development of an adequate promotional plan, development of value-added services for authors, engagement in the international community and definition of a self-archiving mandate policy. The article also provides some figures on the results of the strategic plan and explores future initiatives being devised to further increase the adoption of the repository.

International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2016

The paper deals with the concept of Institutional repositories, explains the need for establishment of repositories by academic libraries. Especially the university libraries, which are meant for catering the higher academic needs of researchers and teachers, have to procure books on diverse subjects and their serial holdings is also very large. Even the so-called large libraries are also finding it difficult to manage their overcrowded stacks which have resulted from an increase in scholarly publishing and the high cost of traditional library buildings. All this have made the repository an attractive option.

Library Management, 2004

Many libraries are facing the challenges to develop and manage an institutional repository. This paper addresses the issue of content in repositories, and suggests that librarians need to approach the task of content development by applying some of the procedures and skills associated with collection management within more traditional environments. It also considers the types of content that might be suitable for institutional repositories, and notes that several recent Australian reports have recommended the need for a more standardised and regulated approach to the content of institutional repositories. It is argued that this is inappropriate.