Brad Matthies, Access Services Librarian and Project Manager for Digital Commons at Butler University, discusses the development of DigitalCommons@Butler, offering valuable suggestions for managing a repository with limited staff and resources.
Among the topics covered in the webinar:
Over the last two and a half years, and with no more than half an FTE dedicated at any one time, Brad and his team have brought Digital Commons@Butler from several hundred objects to over 2,000 objects. Just in the past year, it has grown by more than 700 objects. They have collected in both undergraduate and graduate ETDs, archived two journals, are publishing a third, have populated over 30 different series, and have built a gallery of SelectedWorks pages on behalf of faculty.
Brad’s slides can be downloaded at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/librarian_presentations/8/
For more staffing and workflow solutions, also see, “A Collaboration Between Digital and Reference: Solutions for Copyright Clearance and Outreach,” available here.
