Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

Henty, Margaret

doi:10.1045/may2007-henty

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“…Therefore, it has been a logical step that institutional libraries would take the lead in managing research output through repositories (Horwood, 2004). An Australian study by Henty (2007) revealed that "the open access origin of many repositories has led to responsibility for the repository being held by the library in all but one of the universities surveyed." A later Australian study by Keenan and Kingsley (2009) found that 71.1 percent of repository staff had library backgrounds.…”

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“…Coordinator roles require a certain amount of understanding of both libraries and technology" (Henty, 2007). This new, emerging role of repository manager has been well-documented in the United Kingdom by Wickham (2010) and Zuccala and others (2008), and in Italy by Casella and Morando (2012), based on research which canvassed institutional repository staff in each country.…”

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New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

Simons

Richardson

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories play a critical role in the research lifecycle. Funding agencies are increasingly seeking an improved return on their investment in research. Repositories facilitate this process by providing storage of, and access to, institutional research outputs and, more recently, research data. While repositories are generally managed within the academic library, repository staff require different skills and knowledge compared with traditional library roles. This study reports on a survey of Australasian institutional repository staff to identify skills and knowledge sets. METHODS Institutional repository staff working at universities in Australia and New Zealand were invited to participate in an online survey which incorporated both open and closed-ended question types. RESULTS The survey found significant gaps in the current provision of formal training and coursework related to institutional repositories, which echoed findings in the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States. DISCUSSION There is clearly a need for more and varied training opportunities for repository professionals. Repository work requires a specific set of skills that can be difficult to find and institutions will benefit from investing in training and ongoing development opportunities for repository staff. CONCLUSION The data from this study could be used to facilitate staff recruitment, development, training, and retention strategies.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

Simons

Richardson

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…Compared with the traditional role of the library, the IR librarian not only have special knowledge and skills, but also really understand library. Therefore, it's difficult to find appropriately qualified staff [6]. In the development of IR, the shortage of professional staff is increasingly prominent and become the limitative factor that IR develops further.…”

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The research of institutional repository librarians

Qin¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Econ

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Abstract. Institutional repositories play an important role in protecting and disseminating scholarly contents of universities, and the librarians have been the actually leaders and managers of institutional repository. Through examining the research status of abroad institutional repository librarians, this paper analyses the roles, responsibilities, skills demand of institutional repository librarians.

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“…Leading issues include: using proper technologies, 10 selecting compatible standards, 11 avoiding commercialization, 12 securing economic sustainability for created projects, 13 and achieving continuity and the sustainability of digital collections. 14 Altogether, authors in this group focus mainly on the sustainability of scholarly communication and information, the challenges of maintaining print and digital collections indefinitely, and finding answers to the question posed by Deanna Marcum: "How do scholars and librarians work together to ensure that resources created today will be available in the future?" 15 Clearly, sustainability of scholarship is inherently linked with sustainability of collections and services.…”

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Sustainability Challenge for Academic Libraries: Planning for the Future

Jankowska¹,

Marcum²

2010

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There is growing concern that a variety of factors threaten the sustainability of academic libraries: developing and preserving print and digital collections, supplying and supporting rapidly changing technological and networking infrastructure, providing free services, maintaining growing costs of library buildings, and lowering libraries’ ecological footprint. This paper discusses the multidimensional issues of sustainability in academic libraries and identifies needs for designing an integrated framework for sustainable strategies in academic libraries. Additionally, the paper presents a synthesis of existing literature on the increasingly popular topic of “green libraries” and prepares a background toward developing a framework for sustainable strategies in academic libraries.

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Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

Cited by 25 publications

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New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

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Sustainability Challenge for Academic Libraries: Planning for the Future

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