It’s All in a Day’s Work: Managing the Institutional Repository Pamela Bluh Thurgood Marshall Law Library October 22, 2010

School of Law A professional school on the Baltimore city campus Fifty-eight full time faculty 837 students in JD and LLM programs Law Library 12 librarians 12 support staff

The Roots of the Problem

Open Source Software

Explosion of the Internet The Indexed Web contains at least billion pages (Friday, 15 October, 2010).

The Beginning ….

In the end, we chose ….. * Used with permission of Bucket Brigade – *

The Digital Commons Institutional focus Rapid deployment Flexible, expandable & customizable Cost-effective No software/hardware maintenance Input into system enhancements $$$$$$

Responsive vendor/excellent customer service Software handles multiple formats Requires minimal local IT support ***AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL***  Concentrate on recruiting content  Manage copyright permissions  Mediate submissions

Seamless integration of library services in support of research, scholarship & instruction Proactive approach to copyright clearance Accurate, high quality metadata creation Service philosophy

The repository today 2,029 papers 237,044 full-text downloads 94,619 downloads in the past year

Google Analytics September 17 – October 17, 2010

It’s all in a day’s work

Technical services defined * * Image courtesy of Usha Gupta and the Dept. of Physics, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Working with journal publisher Negotiating licenses Copyright clearance Input from selectors/faculty Well informed about faculty research Quality control over bibliographic details Close working relationship with other units, including IT Data curation and digital preservation Familiar with scholarly publishing Intellectual property Copyright law Close relationships with faculty about their research Quality control over content Satisfied that law is followed Close working relationships Not a preservation archive … but If the shoe fits

platform * software enhancements * self-archiving/mediated deposit single discipline/multiple disciplines * technical/intellectual skills support and sustainability * responsibility * type and format of content

It’sAllInADay’sWork!