A Workshop on Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Library Partnerships

Co-sponsored by ARL, SPARC, and CNI
October 18, 2002
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC

This event was intended to help academic and research library and IT directors and their senior staffs begin planning for the implementation of repositories designed to house faculty works, such as articles, data sets, images, video, and courseware.

Invited speakers represented institutions that have planned and implemented institutional repositories. The workshop focused on the cultural and management dimensions of establishing an institutional repository, rather than on technical matters, and addressed:

• what institutional repositories are and why institutions need them;
• how institutional repositories fit together with other resources like journals and disciplinary repositories;
• what is involved in establishing and operating one;
• what are the key policy issues that need to be resolved;
• how to engage faculty participation; and
• strategic and resource implications for the library and the institution.