Reference librarians and the success of institutional repositories

Bell, Suzanne; Foster, Nancy Fried; Gibbons, Susan

doi:10.1108/00907320510611311

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“…The Rochester project (e.g. Bell, Foster and Gibbons 2005;Gibbons, 2007, 2005;Reeb and Gibbons 2004) is in its 7 th year, the ERIAL project has been completed and is working on publishing and distributing its results (Asher and Miller 2011), and there are several locations throughout North America where there are active ethnography project sponsored by university libraries (Delcore, Mullooly and Scroggins 2009;Gadbridge, Gaskell and Stout 2008;Head 2009). Traditional library data collection techniques tend to be quantitative, in particular in the form of large and small-scale surveys.…”

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confidence: 99%

Re-imagining the users' experience: An ethnographic approach to web usability and space design

Lanclos¹

2016

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PurposeThis paper describes the process and work undertaken by the library anthropologist and the Usability Task Force for reconfiguring the library's physical and virtual spaces to meet the educational needs and expectations of users, including students, faculty, and community patrons. What are the reason(s) for writing the paper or the aims of the research?Design/methodology/approach Through formal usability studies and ethnographic research. In this paper, we describe the process and work undertaken by the library anthropologist and the Usability Task Force for reconfiguring the library's physical and virtual spaces to meet the educational needs and expectations of users, including students, faculty, and community patrons. How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the research. What is the approach to the topic and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper? FindingsThrough surveys, focus groups observation What was found in the course of the work? This will refer to analysis, discussion, or results. Originality/valueThis paper presents an ethnographic approach to policy development and implementation to reorient the physical and virtual library environments at a large research library. Libraries and Library administrators will find value in the policies established and processed outlined for the development of user-centered learning spaces.

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Re-imagining the users' experience: An ethnographic approach to web usability and space design

Lanclos¹

2016

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“…The various forms of knowledge repositories are as below: 1) Institutional Repositories 2) Discipline-Specific Open Archives and 3) Material-type-specific digital repositories [2]. Bell, Foster and Gibbons (2005) reported that many institutions have set up knowledge repositories to meet a variety of institutional needs, including: 1) showcase for the scholarly output of faculty; 2) a relatively inexpensive means for disseminating faculty research results; and 3) a possible tool to leverage journal prices downward [3]. Jones [6].…”

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Knowledge Management in the Major Knowledge Repositories in India

Naushad¹,

Iqbal²

2015

IJKE

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Abstract-The present paper aims to investigate the growth and development of knowledge repositories in India, impact of knowledge repository on library staff, infrastructure facilities available in libraries for hosting knowledge repositories and barriers in providing knowledge resources to users through knowledge repositories.Ten KR attached to universities, institutes and other higher learning centres in the country were selected with the help of simple random sampling to conduct the study.The results of the study show that, all the ten libraries under study have instituted publically accessible digital knowledge repositories. Establishment of knowledge repositories has made significant impact on library staff and eight libraries have adequate ICT infrastructure facilities for hosting knowledge repositories with sufficient number of terminals for their users for searching and accessing knowledge resources. Lack of expertise and lack of training is the major barriers faced by 70 percent of librarians, while providing knowledge resources to their users through KR.The paper also puts forward some suggestions derived from the analysis of data for further improvement of the management of knowledge repositories.

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“…The authors also mention that users may feel anxiety when executing the sequence of technical steps needed to deposit their work, and that they may also worry about possible copyright infringement. 7 The psychology of resistance may thus manifest itself in both cognitive and affective ways.…”

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Reducing Psychological Resistance to Digital Repositories

Quinn¹

2010

ITAL

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The potential value of digital repositories is dependent on the cooperation of scholars to deposit their work. Although many researchers have been resistant to submitting their work, the literature on digital repositories contains very little research on the psychology of resistance. This article looks at the psychological literature on resistance and explores what its implications might be for reducing the resistance of scholars to submitting their work to digital repositories. Psychologists have devised many potentially useful strategies for reducing resistance that might be used to address the problem; this article examines these strategies and how they might be applied.

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Reference librarians and the success of institutional repositories

Cited by 37 publications

References 3 publications

Re-imagining the users' experience: An ethnographic approach to web usability and space design

Re-imagining the users' experience: An ethnographic approach to web usability and space design

Knowledge Management in the Major Knowledge Repositories in India

Reducing Psychological Resistance to Digital Repositories

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