ALCTS webinar: Promoting Institutional Repositories on and off Campus
Date: November 30, 2011 All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
Description: This webinar will consider strategies for promoting the institutional repository to on campus and off campus constituencies. Results of surveys carried out at institutions with IRs will be reviewed and information based on the speaker's experience at Thomas Jefferson University will be provided.
Learning Outcomes: - to provide practical guidelines for promoting the IR - to offer suggestions on best practices for promoting the IR
Audience: anyone with an institutional repository or other service/product that they wish to promote to a campus audience
Presenter: Dan Kipnis is the Senior Education Services Librarian at the Thomas Jefferson University’s Scott Memorial Library where his responsibilities include implementing and managing the university’s institutional repository, Jefferson Digital Commons (http://jdc.jefferson.edu1). In 2009, Dan described his experience in launching Thomas Jefferson University’s IR in “Feeding the Fledgling Repository: Starting an Institutional Repository at an Academic Health Sciences Library” which was published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly, v. 28, no. 2, p. 111-122, 2009. Dan received his undergraduate degree from McGill University and completed his graduate work in library and information science at the University of Michigan, School of Information.
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