Institutional Repositories

EDUCAUSE 2007

In this 30-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Marjorie Hassen in a session entitled Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository. Hassen explains  Penn Library's model for administrating the University of Pennsylvania institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons@Penn.

In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from SURF's Bas Cordewener to get a feel for the work of SURF and some interesting work born of international collaboration.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from the National Portfolio Coordinator of the Australian National University, Christopher Blackall.  Listen in as he shares thoughts on institutional repositories, standards, and more.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 20 minute recording, we'll hear sit down with the Team Lead for Digital Library Research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Herbert van de Sompel.  Listen in as he discusses a range of topics including institutional repositories, scholarly communications and more.

See also:
http://www.mesur.org
http://www.projectcounter.org
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from MERLOT's Managing Director, Sorel Reisman.  Listen in has shares some thoughts on the very interesting work of MERLOT.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Terri Bays, OCW Project Director at the University of Notre Dame. Listen in as she shares some thoughts on open courseware, institutional repositories and more.

The Institutional Repositories SPEC Kit is now available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This document presents the results of a thirty-eight-question survey of 123 ARL members in early 2006 about their institutional repositories practices and plans. The survey response rate was 71% (87 out of 123 ARL members responded). The front matter and nine-page Executive Summary are freely available. The document also presents detailed question-by-question results, a list of respondent institutions, representative documents from institutions, and a bibliography. It is 176 pages long.

Here is the bibliographic information: University of Houston Libraries Institutional Repository Task Force. Institutional Repositories. SPEC Kit 292. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2006. ISBN: 1-59407-708-8.

The members of the University of Houston Libraries Institutional Repository Task Force who authored the document were Charles W. Bailey, Jr.; Karen Coombs; Jill Emery (now at UT Austin); Anne Mitchell; Chris Morris; Spencer Simons; and Robert Wright.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Fred Heath, Vice Provost and Director at University of Texas at Austin.  We'll touch on the decision to repurpose a building that housed a library of 90,000 books, learn why their library is encouraging students to use google, and find out about libqual. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 23 minute recording, we'll touch base with the University of Minnesota's Eric Celeste to learn about his work archiving Internet2 with Heritrix.  We'll also learn about the UThink blog serivce and engage in a healthy discussion about social software. 

At last fall's CNI meeting, I also spoke with the University of Minnesota's Joseph Konstan. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org