Institutional repositories (IRs) first emerged in the academic environment in the early 2000s [1]. In the more than 20 years since the first IRs were launched, how do academic library IRs support their institutions’ diverse goals? In this poster, librarians from six academic libraries * – representing various sectors including science, technology, engineering, medicine, music, and large universities – collaborated to explore and reflect on the academic IR community that encompasses specialized libraries, collections, and formats. The poster spotlights diversity in technology, content, users, roles, priorities, and challenges. It also illustrates some of the common threads and opportunities that have relevance and implications in both the special library and the broader IR landscape. This will be a “poster conversation” where we will engage attendees about the repositories at their own institutions and give them an opportunity for meaningful discussion. [1] Shreeves SL, Cragin MH. Introduction: Institutional repositories: Current state and future. Library Trends. 2008;57(2):89-97.
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/10679 * Presenting authors:
- Ramune K. Kubilius, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Julia Lovett, University of Rhode Island
Co-authors:
- Michael Burke, Berklee College of Music
- Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Emily Ping O’Brien, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lisa Palmer, UMass Chan Medical School
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