“…As early as 2006, scholars such as Parsons and Duerr criticized the concept of the DC as too narrow (Parsons and Duerr, 2006). Since that time, others have noted that the concept is difficult to implement (e.g., Donaldson, 2020), and that it forces institutions that serve broad publics to instead narrow their focus to a specific set of potential consumers (e.g., Bettivia, 2016). Scholars have also argued that by focusing on a narrowly-defined DC, repositories risk failing to provide meaningful access to digital information for more broadly conceptualized user communities (Boutard, 2020;Moles, 2022).…”