Institutional Repository Partnerships – A Report from ALA Midwinter

At ALA Midwinter, David Evans, Dean and Assistant Vice President of Library Services at Kennesaw State University, and Jonathan Bull, Scholarly Communication Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Services at Valparaiso University spoke about how their institutional repositories have been deployed to create strategic partnerships both on and off campus and more deeply embed the library into the fabric of their institutions.   For those of you that missed it, you can find their slides here:

• “Library as Partner: IR Collaborations on Campus and in the Community,” David Evans, http://works.bepress.com/j_david_evans/4/
• “Opportunities from the Ends of the Spectrum: IR Partnerships at Valpo,” Jonathan Bull, http://scholar.valpo.edu/ccls_fac_presentations/7/

If you’d like to read more about other partnerships that are being formed, check out the following stories:

• Valparaiso’s Library Goes Above and Beyond with NSF Grant Support
• Library Partners with Cleveland Community to Manage City-wide Event
• Purdue Libraries Partner with State Agency to Publish Transportation Research
• Collection in Fairfield’s IR Marks Faculty Member’s Career
• The College at Brockport (SUNY) Saves Valuable Regional Research