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Exercising creativity to implement an institutional repository with limited resources
1. Exercising Creativity to
Implement an Institutional
Repository
with Limited Resources
Yuji Tosaka
Cathy Weng
The College of New Jersey
June 9, 2012
NASIG Annual Conference, Nashville,
TN
2. Presenters
2
Yuji Tosaka
Cataloging/Metadata Librarian
The College of New Jersey Library
Cathy Weng
Head of Cataloging
The College of New Jersey Library
3. Presentation Outline
3
IRs and IRs at smaller academic institutions –
Context and problems
IR efforts at The College of New Jersey
(TCNJ)
MUSE project – TCNJ IR pilot development
Life after MUSE
4. The College and the Library
4
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
State college, located in Ewing, NJ
Seven schools, primarily
undergraduate programs
Approximately 6,000 undergraduate
students
Faculty and undergraduate research
strongly encouraged and supported
TCNJ Library
Collectionsize: over 600,000 volumes
Few digital library collections
*Images taken from TCNJ web site, May 3, 2011.
5. 1
IRs and IRs at smaller
academic institutions
Context and problems
6. IR Context and Problems
6
IR needs and benefits at academic institutions
IR challenges at smaller institutions
IR implementation options at smaller
institutions
7. Institutional Repository
7
Digital library collection and service designed
to manage, organize, and showcase the
intellectual output of an academic community
to a broader audience
8. IR needs at academic
8
institutions
Take stewardship of the intellectual output of
the campus community
Open access and dissemination of faculty
scholarship
Showcase student research and
accomplishments: demonstrated
academic/educational quality
Institutional advancement and accountability
9. IRs and Smaller Institutions
9
―Sleeping beast of demand for institutional
repositories (IRs) from master’s and baccalaureate
institutions‖
Librarians at these institutions ―want to know about
the IR experiences of master’s and baccalaureate
institutions generally. They also want to learn about
their peers’ experiences with IR costs, required
technical expertise, funding the IR effort, whether
the local learning community will contribute to and
use the IR, and raising the issue of IRs with their
institution’s central administration.‖
Source: Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States (Council on Library and
Information Resources, 2007), p. 74-75 [http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub140/pub140.pdf]
10. IR Challenges at Smaller
10
Institutions
Limited resources
Funding
Staffing
Technical expertise/support
Need for a minimal cost approach to develop
and maintain IRs
11. IR implementation options at
11
smaller institutions
Predominant choice: consortial repositories
Other options
Outsourcing:vendor-hosted platform
Independent repositories
*Jingfeng Xia and David B. Opperman. (2010). Current trends in institutional repositories
for institutions offering master's and baccalaureate degrees. Serials Review 36, 10-18.
Melissa Nykanen. (2011). Institutional repositories at smaller institutions in the United
States: Some current trends. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 23, 1-19.
13. TCNJ IR Developing Journey (bumpy
road)
13
IR initiative began in Spring 2009
Assessed local resources
Conclusion: very limited – i.e. support of hardware and
software, staffing, etc.
Decision made to move forward with existing staff and
an open source system
Explored open source IR platforms
DSpace, Greenstone, Fedora
Progress made with RUcore (Rutgers Community
Repository, a Fedora based system)
Other possibilities also explored to no avail
14. Change of Strategy
14
Exercised beyond the box thinking
Initial goal – a pilot IR
Possibility of involving students helping with
developing an IR
Utilizing campus resources
Ultimate goal – a permanent and sustainable
library service
TCNJ MUSE Program seemed a good fit
15. TCNJ MUSE Program
15
MUSE – Mentored Undergraduate Summer
Experience
TCNJ Faculty-Student Scholarly and Creative
Collaborative Activity
Eight weeks (June-July) of summer research
program
Undergraduate students conduct research or
engage in creative activity in mentored
collaboration with TCNJ faculty
16. TCNJ MUSE Program
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Program funds research stipend (both
students and faculty), student on-campus
housing
Project grants competitive; reviewed and
selected by Faculty-Student Collaboration
Program Council
17. Forming a Team for MUSE Project
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Library faculty to handle
Technical needs
Content recruitment
Metadata application
Rights management
Front / back ends IR platform ease of use
Computer Science major students
To learn library repository system
To learn system installation and server administration
To learn working in an open source community
To help customize open source IR to meet local needs
18. Library MUSE IR Pilot Team
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Three library faculty
Emerging Technologies Librarian
Head of Cataloging
Cataloging/Metadata librarian
Two Computer Science major students
Recruited with help from a Computer Science
faculty
MUSE application package prepared and
submitted in February 2011
19. Library MUSE Project
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March 2011 – Library IR team successfully
awarded MUSE grant ($9,795.00)
Significance:
Firstever Library MUSE Project
Library’s participation in academic mentoring
Recognition of library faculty as part of the research
community
Acknowledging the importance of a campus central
repository
20. MUSE General Schedule
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June 6-July 29, 2011 (8 weeks)
Weekly luncheons to learn academic research
Voluntary progress reports throughout
MUSE symposium held in week 8
Oraland poster presentations of all MUSE
projects
21. Preparation
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The team critically and carefully examined and
evaluated open source IR platforms
IR+ selected for TCNJ adoption for its next-
generation look and feel
22. IR+
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Developed by University of Rochester
First production release: August 2009
Has promising features
Browse by author, publication, sponsor
Faceted filtering
Author’s workspace for collaboration and self
archiving
Name authority control
Researcher’s profile page
23. IR+
Image taken from UR
23 Research website,
accessed, 5/24/2012.
26. Project Process – General
26
Established initial contact and maintain close
communication with IR+ developer and
repository coordinator
Assessed system requirements for hardware –
server space, server specifications, etc.
27. Project Process – Technical
27
part
Chose to have a physical server over virtual
server
Allowedstudents to learn server administration
IR+ manual written for Windows server
Reviewed
Installation
manual
System administration manual
User manual
Learned to use the system
As administrator
As user
As author
28. Project Process – Content
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Building
Outreached two departments: Library,
Department of Chemistry
Obtained lists of publications authored or co-
authored by library and Chemistry faculty
Began to establish preliminary metadata
application profile and create metadata
29. Project Process – Copyright
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management
Sought advice for copyright management
Used SHERPA / Romeo as first place to check
for instructions of posting articles on IR
Contacted publishers as needed for further
clarification of copyright regulations
Established local profiles for individual
publishers and journals
30. Logistics of Working with
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Students
MUSE Google site established for
communication and expectation
Announcements
Calendar
Collaborating documents
Dailyreport
Suggested added features
Related timelines
34. Project Logistics
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Students and library MUSE faculty met weekly
to discuss project progress and assignments
for the following week
Emerging Technologies librarian met with
students almost daily and provided technical
advice
Frequent informal discussions with students as
needed
35. Project Logistics
35
Students later joined IR+ community and
received much needed guidance from the
original software developer
36. Project Outcomes
36
TCNJ pilot IR, TCNJ Digital Scholar,
successfully implemented
Local enhancements made (e.g. more intuitive
metadata creation process)
Over 70 records (articles, book chapters, ppt
presentations, poster presentations) created
Most significantly: contributed to enhancement
of IR+ version 2.1 general release
To support batch import and export of MARC 21
files
37. Project Outcomes
37
Preliminary metadata application profile
established
Preliminary rights management workflow
established
41. 3 Life after MUSE Program
Work in progress – From a pilot to a
sustainable service
42. From a Pilot to a Sustainable
42
Service
Library administration support
Library faculty support
Policy/procedure development
Metadata
Copyright and permissions
Future plan
Collection
development
Campus outreach/buy-in
43. Support from Library Administration
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and Faculty
Library Administration
Dean obtained some funding from Academic Affairs to
hire a student worker for help with further IR
development
Library Faculty
IR demo, Q&A document for keeping the library
faculty informed
Faculty expressed support for moving forward on IR
planning as a new library initiative
Work in progress to develop an initial formal IR
proposal to the Dean with input and comment
from the entire library faculty
44. Metadata Application Profile
44
Continued to refine the local metadata
documentation
Why? — metadata quality control mechanism
Accuracy, completeness, consistency in metadata
creation
Clear guidance for paraprofessionals and student
workers
Revised profile worked well with a student worker
46. Copyright and Permissions
46
Continued to develop a simple and intuitive yet
organized workflow
Existing tools used to record publisher copyright
notices: e-mails (58.2%), hard-copy printouts
(47.8%), spreadsheets (41.8%)
*Ann Hanlon and Marisa Ramirez. (2011). Asking for permission: A
survey of copyrights workflows for institutional repositories. portal:
Libraries and the Academy, 11, 683-702.
TCNJ experiment with CORAL for copyright
management
47. CORAL
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Centralized Online Resources Acquisitions and
Licensing
Open-source ERMS, built by the University of
Notre Dame library (2010– )
Adopted by TCNJ for use as ERMS
Its functionality inspired IR team and is being
tested for IR copyright management
CORAL worked well with a student worker
53. What’s Next?
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Collection development
Majorfocus on student work: reflection of the
increasing emphasis on deep student learning
and intensive faculty-student collaboration in
scholarly and creative activity
Campus outreach/buy-in
Need for multiple approaches to promote the IR
as a unique library service
54. What’s Next?
54
Copyright and permissions management
Experiment with CORAL for managing author
permissions
If CORAL works, might suggest to IR+ developer
to incorporate into IR+
55. Conclusion
55
Minimum-cost, bottom-up approach to
developing an IR with limited resources
Think like a startup/entrepreneur
Be flexible and try any approaches that work
Do not aim for one big rollout
Quickly formulate a ―good enough‖ plan and
implement
Constantly review and adjust
Never fear ―failures‖
56. Thank
You!
Questions?
tosaka@tcnj.e
56 du
weng@tcnj.ed
Editor's Notes
The title for our talk is “Exercising creativity to implement an institutional repository with limited resources.” Our main purpose is to discuss some practical steps that smaller institutions might take to develop their own IRs from scratch with much local resources. Given the existing focus on the large research university experience, we hope that it will be valuable to share our experience with other institutions with similar characteristics who may be interested in having their own IRs.
First, I will first talk briefly about the overall context and problems of IRs for smaller institutions that may be different from large research universities. Next, Cathy will take over and give an overview of IR efforts at The College, which had been hampered by the limited resources. Then, Cathy will discuss our MUSE project last summer, which is a college-wide mini-grant program for working with selected undergraduate students in research and creative activity. We will discuss how we grabbed at this internal opportunity to jumpstart our IR pilot development. Finally, I will talk briefly about life after MUSE, about still ongoing development of our repository.
Our institution is a state college located in Ewing, central New Jersey, about 10 minutes from the state capital Trenton and Princeton, and also just between New York and Philadelphia. It is a highly selective residential college focusing on the undergraduate experience. We have about 6,000 undergraduates, with seven schools. Faculty and undergraduate research, especially their collaboration, is strongly encouraged and supported. The library is medium-sized, with over half a million volumes. Currently, we have few digital library collections.
Here, we will first talk about IR needs and benefits at academic institutions, then about IR challenges at smaller institutions, and finally about the current state of IR implementation options at smaller institutions.
An IR is a digital library collection and service that is designed to manage, organize, and showcase the intellectual output of an academic community to a broader audience. Started in the early 2000s, IRs have reached significant mass, with millions of downloads at many large repositories.
Why do we need IRs at academic institutions? What are their main benefits? First and foremost, IRs would allow universities and colleges to take stewardship of the intellectual output of the campus community. IRs would help to centralize and provide long-term access to the institution’s intellectual assets to a wider audience in ways that are not well supported by traditional library and publication models. IRs would promote open access and dissemination and increase the visibility and impact of your faculty scholarship in the digital age. Also, IRs would give us an official place for showcasing student research and learning outcomes and thereby demonstrating the academic and educational quality of your institution. Last but not least, IRs would be important for institutional advancement and accountability in general as an official medium for communicating your institutional accomplishments. Particularly for public colleges and universities, they would also help enhance public accountability by showing a “return on investment,” that is, the results of publicly supported faculty research and education conducted on campus.
Large research universities were the early IR adopters, focusing on dissemination of their faculty scholarship. They still vastly outnumber other categories of universities and colleges in IR development. And yet, as an IMLS-funded research noted here found five years ago, there is still a “sleeping beast of demand for institutional repositories (IRs) from master’s and baccalaureate institutions.” This research also found that librarians at such smaller institutions “want to know about the IR experiences” of similar institutions generally. “They also want to learn about their peers’ experiences with IR costs, required technical expertise, funding the IR effort, whether the local learning community will contribute to and use the IR, and raising the issue of IRs with their institution’s central administration.”
What are some of major IR challenges at smaller institutions? Perhaps the biggest common hurdle to IR development is the problem of limited resources at such institutions. Funding is limited. Staffing and technical expertise and support are also limited. In our library, for example, we have long had only a systems librarian taking care of library information technology single-handedly, as opposed to large research institutions with many dedicated library IT staff. Given these limitations, we felt that small institutions like our college needed to pursue a minimal cost approach to develop and maintain IRs as new library initiatives.
What are IR implementation options at smaller institutions? According to two recent studies noted on this slide, the predominant IR option for small institutions is using consortia. More than 60 percent took this route. But consortial options may not be available for your libraries. Outsourcing to vendor-hosted platforms like Bepress’s Digital Commons is another important IR choice, adopted by about 20 percent of small institutions. Proprietary vendor platforms may be easy and quick. But they are fairly expensive with annual license fees and may not be affordable. That leaves independently operated repositories as a third, least adopted option, and this has been the IR route adopted so far at our college. It has been quite a bumpy road, but Cathy will next talk about how we strived to develop an IR initiative operating on little funding or staffing, while identifying available resources and partners within and outside the library.
TCNJ IR initiative began in Spring of 2009. A library digital projects working group was formed to investigate and identify library materials which should be digitized for preservation and broader public access purposes. Developing a TCNJ IR was identified as one of the targeted services. Without a product, it was difficult to sell IR to the library administration and ask for financial and other physical support as everything was abstract. The group was also reluctant to pursue a commercial product as quite a few good open source IR products were available in the field. Our Library Dean did give a go-ahead with the initiative.We explored a couple of open source IR platforms including …We also seriously considered working with Rutgers University Library. The deal is to have Rutgers host our IR using their home-grown Rucore digital repository system and develop TCNJ’s own IR portal. It did not work out at the end.
With the roadblocks we ran into, a change of strategy was needed for a breakthrough to happen.It might be doable if we can start small. That is to have a pilot first.
With the summer MUSE program and a pilot IR in mind, the library digital projects working group formed a library MUSE project team to handle various tasks. It was clear that we need faculty to handle ….and for the mentoring aspect of the project, we thought we could recruit computer science major students to …
The three faculty to work on the IR pilot included:The Emerging Technologies Librarian who was newly hired in Nov. 2010. to manage the technical aspect of the projectThe Metadata / Cataloging Librarian and the Head of Cataloging will work on the content building, metadata application, copyright clearance, customization of public interface.
In March 2011, the Library MUSE team learned they were awarded the MUSE grant.This was extremely significant for the library and for the three library faculty involved because:This was the first EVER library MUSE project.It represented the library’s active participation in academic mentoring.It also showed the recognition of library faculty as part of the research community.Most importantly, the success of the grant application also indicated that the MUSE review council acknowledged the importance of having a campus repository system to store, preserve and showcase the academic community’s scholarly output.
The MUSE team started to prepare for the summer project Even. We critically,carefully examined and evaluated open source IR platforms. At that time Dspace was one time a favorable candidate.Later the MUSE team decided to adopt another newer open source IR system – IR+.
This is U. R.’s institutional repository UR Research. It has a very contemporary look and feel. IR+ has features of Institutional collections from various academic depts and institutions. It also has researcher’s profile pages. Down here, you can also see the usage statistics with number of collections, number of publications, number of downloads and number of members, etc.
A very neat researcher’s page with general biographical information on the left and research products on the right.
Working on implementing the pilot IR technical part,We chose to have a physical server over virtual server – with the Library Dean’s help, our campus IT dept. was very helpful to give us options of having a physical server or some virtual space for the IR.
TCNJ Librarians have faculty status. With Library Faculty’s support, it was easy to obtain a list of publications authored by TCNJ Library faculty.With the help from our Science and Engineering Librarian, we successfully recruited content from four Chemistry faculty.
For copyright management, we sought copyright clearance advice from our colleagues in other institutions who have implemented their IRs.
Documents prepared by both students and the faculty were posted on the Google site.
Students were asked to post their daily activities to keep track of the status and progress of various specific tasks. The daily report also served as a log to document the student’s learning process of the IR system.
To keep all MUSE members informed, the two students and library faculty also met every Thursday to discuss …The students workstations were located in the Cataloging Dept., it’s very easy for us to discuss various issues the students. It worked the same if the students wanted to ask us questions.
Another note worthy was the two students later joined the IR+ community and established formal communication with the original IR+ softer developer and received direct assistance from Nate Sarr from U. of Rochester. Nate later invited our student Mike to work with him to enable batch import and export from IR. This turned out to be a successful intent.
Mike was able to finished the coding and this feature was later incorporated into the new release. Most importantly, our student Mike worked with Nate Sarr, IR+ software developer, and contributed coding to enhance the IR+. The new codes were incorporated into the new version of IR+ which was later released for use by the community.
We would like to describe the progress of our IR project, how we have taken slow but steady steps to move our IR pilot forward to become a sustainable library service after the end of the MUSE program last summer.
In this process, there are at least several action items that we have had to and will have to take care of.Getting support from the library administration is of course very important. Also, since our library is a faculty place, getting support from the library administration is only half the battle, so to speak. Getting support from the entire library faculty is equally and perhaps more important in moving the IR initiative forward. At the same time, working on and formalizing various policies and procedures are also important in developing a sustainable IR with minimal resources, because we cannot have a professional librarian working full-time on the IR and we therefore need simple, clear workflows to guide paraprofessionals and student workers creating metadata and managing copyrights and permissions. Last but not least, we will briefly touch on some of future plans needed to make the IR really fly, like collection development and campus outreach and buy-in.
Support from the library administration and faculty. The Library Dean had been very supportive of our IR pilot efforts throughout the MUSE program. Following the successful MUSE project, we approached him to discuss ways to move forward a new IR initiative in the library. In response, he obtained some funding from Academic Affairs to hire a student worker for help with further IR development. Library faculty support is equally and perhaps even more important in our library’s organizational culture. We are a faculty environment where librarians are treated the same way as the teaching faculty and responsibility for librarianship, just like teaching, rests collectively with the library faculty. A new library-wide initiative could hardly fly even if the Dean himself had given the go-ahead and resources for the project. We have provided the library faculty with regular status reports, an IR demo, a Q&A document, etc. to keep them informed of IR progress and answer their questions. In the end, the library faculty has expressed support for IR planning as a new library initiative, and work is now in progress to develop an initial formal IR proposal with input and comment from the entire library faculty, so that the Dean can take further action on the IR initiative.
In addition to working for support from the library administration and faculty, we have also continued our work on developing policies and procedures further to prepare for a sustainable IR, including a metadata application profile. A metadata application guideline is a local guideline that documents how information should be entered in each metadata element. This is a very important metadata quality control mechanism. Refining a metadata application profile was crucial to our goal of having a sustainable IR with minimal cost, because we wanted paraprofessionals and student workers, rather than professional librarians, to be in charge of creating or validating metadata records. For that purpose, we need to prepare clear guidance and documentation for them. During the last spring semester, we have also continued experimenting with the metadata creation and found that a student worker can handle routine metadata creation with good documentation.
In addition to metadata creation, managing copyright and permissions is another important area that will need clear policy and procedure for a sustainable IR. According to a recent study noted here, libraries are often struggling with very elaborate systems to keep track of these details, such as e-mails, hard-copy printouts, and spreadsheets. In a Bepress webinar last April, one library reported that they had a librarian and a senior paraprofessional each spending 25 percent of their time on this task, assisted by student workers, using rather complicated in-house procedures. Since our library will never have such staffing available, we have a need for a simple copyright and permissions workflow that can be managed even by paraprofessionals and student workers. To that end, we have experimented with copyright workflows with a student worker using CORAL, an open-source ERM.
CORAL stands for Centralized Online Resources Acquisitions and Licensing. This open-source ERM has been built and released by the University of Notre Dame library since 2010. Our Systems Librarian and Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian have been working and presenting on CORAL implementation since last year. Then, we realized that CORAL could be a good tool for managing IR copyright workflow as well and that we could just use what we already have in-house, which was a big plus given our limited resources.
What’s next for our IR initiative? First, content recruitment is among the most critical elements to an IR. We have not done much yet in this area since our MUSE pilot project. However, like many IRs at smaller institutions, we expect that our IR will likely have a major focus on student work, reflecting the increasing emphasis at our college on deep student learning and intensive faculty-student collaboration in scholarly and creative activity. Also important is campus outreach and buy-in. We will have to plan multiple approaches to promote the IR as a unique library service, including faculty mailings and presentations, individual subject librarians’ outreach, and partnership with other campus units.
In addition, we plan to do more to refine our copyright management workflow. If CORAL works, we might suggest to IR+ developer to incorporate it into the software for interoperability.
Open-source software is not exactly free, as we need some server and staff time. However, even with limited local resources, our initiative has shown that it is possible for a core of committed librarians to create a foundation for the ultimate goal of establishing a sustainable open-source IR for a small academic institution. But in doing so, we have often found that we have to think almost like a small startup or entrepreneur, being flexible and trying whatever approaches that may work and whatever resources we have in-house, like CORAL. The picture in the right corner is taken from our college’s strategic planning material, because we feel that it is also a very good description of the ideal IR process map. Given limited resources and staff at smaller institutions, it is important not to aim for one big rollout. Instead, we need to quickly formulate a “good enough” plan and move immediately to implementation. Then, we constantly review your progress, adjust your plan, and move onto for a next incremental cycle.Last but not least, it seems essential that we never fear “failures.” In smaller libraries, it is so easy to feel that we are so busy as is and what if we fail since we have little time, resource, or staff to take on a new initiative. But that seems to be an entirely incorrect approach. First, we always need to keep in mind the larger mission and goal we want to achieve. If you see that the campus has IR needs and that the library has organizational and information architecture services that cannot be matched on campus, then the question should be, What’s the road ahead? What resources do we have in-house? How can we get to our goal one step at a time? By keeping our eyes on those ultimate goals and exercising some creativity, we feel that even smaller libraries can take on new initiatives with their limited resources.