Institutional Repositories: Shining a Light on Your Community’s Assets*

Institutional Repositories. If you’re like us, you’re short on time, have tons on your plate, and have a never ending list of “someday” projects. Join us for a webinar on best practices, tips, and tricks for establishing a rich, vibrant, evolving institutional repository for your organization. Lisa Palmer, MSLS, AHIP will guide you through the process, and participants will come away with actionable, reasonable steps to make your institutional repository a success.

Learning Objectives

After completing this class, participants will be able to:

1. Identify best practices for designing and implementing a digital repository, and apply those practices to their own institutions
2. Describe how they will work with stakeholders to develop and promote a robust institutional repository at their organization
3. Define components of a successful repository that highlights institutional scholarship and adheres to archival and content management standards

Major Concepts and Goals

Define institutional repository, and why it is valuable to health systems and academic institutions. (Objective 1)

Discuss open access and how it is related to institutional repositories (author rights, copyright, self-archiving, NIH public access compliance) (Objective 3)

Planning considerations for an institutional repository including: goals/scope, platform, structure, content types, features, metadata, access and other policies, content recruitment, submission process, staffing, preservation, promotion/outreach (Objective 1, 2, 3)

Identify resources and best practices for designing and implementing an institutional repository (Objective 1)

Showcasing archival/ historical materials such as images, newsletters, oral histories, and posters (Objective 3)

Agenda

1. Introduction of topic and significance to librarians (5 Min)- Allison Papini
2. Presentation (35 Min)- Lisa Palmer
   • Define institutional repository
   • Discuss open access and how it is related to institutional repositories (author rights, copyright, self-archiving, NIH public access compliance)
   • Planning considerations for an institutional repository including: goals/scope, platform, structure, content types, features, metadata, access and other policies, content recruitment, submission process, staffing, preservation, promotion/outreach
   1. This section will be the bulk of the presentation
   • Identify resources and best practices for designing and implementing an institutional repository
   • Showcasing archival/ historical materials such as images, newsletters, oral histories, and posters
3. Lightning round (10 Min)
   • Dina McKelvy will give a brief talk on specific implementation at Maine Medical Center
4. Questions & wrap-up (10 Min)

MLA CE Credits:1