Setting Up Your Game Plan: Strategies for Content Acquisition and Growth

Michelle, Todd, and Isaac kicked off the event by discussing the following topics: Developing a mission and setting goals Staffing your repository Identifying partners and collecting early sources of content Strategies for ongoing growth Publishing programs for journals, books, and conferences Michelle Armstrong: Michelle Armstrong, Scholarly Communications and Data Management Librarian at Boise State University, not only sets the repository in a service framework; she and her team also explore ways in which they can provide those services at more points in the research process, thus deeply embedding themselves in the full cycle of scholarly communications. In her presentation, Michelle will discuss this larger framework, how they implement it at Boise State, and what types of skills are needed to do so.Todd Bruns: For Eastern Illinois University’s The Keep, early collection development plans coalesced around two different types of content: special collections and ETDs. But they didn’t stop there; they’ve since moved on to faculty publications, journal publishing, and a whole host of other types of content. Todd Bruns, Institutional Repository Librarian at EIU, will share how they set and pursued these goals, the natural progression from one type of collection to the next, and their approach to staffing this initiative.Isaac Gilman: Pacific University’s CommonKnowledge has had great success in providing a wide variety of services to its community. Isaac Gilman, Associate Professor and Scholarly Communication & Publishing Services Librarian, will discuss what’s next for them: a library-based university press. He’ll cover the mission and goals of the press, how it fits in with their overall scholarly communication program, as well as staffing options and how they’ve gone about building stakeholders for this new initiative.