1. Me, Myself, And I: Working as a solo repository manager
         
Michael Pujals | Dominican University of California | December 13, 2017
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2. OR… Am I?
Michael Pujals | Dominican University of California | December 13, 2017

3. Dominican University of California
FTE ~1900
Mostly Undergraduate with 8 Masters Programs
Full-time Faculty ~ 112
Lots of adjuncts
FTE ~ 1900
~ 112 full-time faculty, and many more adjuncts
6 librarians (including myself)
3 support staff (circulation)
15 student workers (circulation)
It’s a small university, but the librarians encounter the same problems as at larger institutions

4. My Job(s) Repository manager Electronic resources
Library website admin
Liaison (4 programs)
Plus university committees and side projects that I get roped into.
I look at Scholarly Comminutions Librarian as my main job; that’s my job description but I don’t have the time to do everything that I would like to do. I spend about ¾ time on the repository
The other jobs I do are in maintenance mode; I make sure that everything is working and I’ll make updates when I need a break from the repository. These jobs can be done so much better but I have to prioritize.

5. 58 SelectedWorks profiles
3 years old
2,132 items
275,000+ downloads
58 SelectedWorks profiles
This includes one active journal one journal archive,
Several book galleries
a few image galleries,
~58 SelectedWorks pages
several events including an ongoing student conference.

6. Students deposit their own work I deposit faculty work
Work Flow
Students deposit their own work
I deposit faculty work
I do this where I can for student work (senior and masters theses, research posters, senior art exhibition, etc.)
I don’t do this for faculty, I need to make sure that copyright permissions are covered; I don’t trust the faculty to do that. 
Starting to train others to deposit their own materials, especially for large bulk items.

7. And I do everything else
Work Flow
Gathering and depositing faculty work
Marketing the IR
Help formatting papers
And I do everything else
Developing policy
Class visits about the IR
Copyright permissions & questions

8. Build Relationships & Ask Questions
Get to know IT and your web content manager
Fans of the Library
Get out of the office
Listen
Conferences (if you can)
ListServes
Get to know the IT department. Who is the University’s web content manager? Who do you know in the Marketing department or the media office? Read the campus newsletters.
Who are the library’s power users among the faculty? Talk with them about faculty concerns and scholarship and about putting student work online? What are their thoughts and opinions? Why do they think that way?
Get out for a walk – drop in people’s offices and say “hello”, run into people around campus and find out what they’re working on? Is there someway the you or the repository could help them out? Invite yourself to department meetings or retreats. Chat with the deans.
Listen at meetings, in the lunch room, look for opportunities
ListServes and Conf. helped me when I was a beginner

9. Set parameters of what you will and won’t do for people
Borrow shamelessly
Forms
Policies
LibGuides
Tools
Canned s
Lots Calendar Reminders
External tools like Evernote and Google Keep
Other people doing what we do tend to be passionate about the work and often times are wiling to help
Ask to borrow and repurpose
Look for CC licenses

10. You’re not alone Librarians like to share
I’ve found that people who do this work are very passionate about it and they want to help
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11. It takes time… Be Patient Be Persistent
Honestly, it takes time, especially at the beginning… you can put as much or as little as you want into it
I enjoy and believe in the work so I put more time into it.
Other job duties are still there but some of them are in maintenance mode, others I need to spend more time on.

12. Questions?

13. Michael Pujals Dominican Scholar Dominican University of California
works.bepress.com/michael-pujals/
Dominican Scholar
scholar.dominican.edu