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Hi everyone<br>
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Apologies for the cross posting, but I wanted to alert you to an
excellent article in the current D-Lib:<br>
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<a class="unb" href="dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html">Understanding
Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories</a>
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by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons, <i>University of Rochester<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html</a><br>
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</i>Here's an excerpt:<br>
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<p>Rather than approach faculty with a set, one-size-fits-all
promotional spiel, these library liaisons operate under the guidance
that a personalized, tailored approach works best. As we learned from
the work-practice study, what faculty members care most about is their
research. Expressing interest in their research, for example by reading
a recent article by the faculty member prior to the meeting and then
asking a couple of questions about the work, will get their attention
and will usually stimulate a very enthusiastic conversation. Throughout
the conversation, the library liaison is listening for opportunities to
demonstrate how the benefits of the IR respond directly to the faculty
member's web-related research needs. For example, when the faculty
member relates frustration over a broken website link, the library
liaison can explain that each document in the IR has a unique and
stable URL. </p>
<p>By contrast to the language previously used to describe the features
and benefits of the IR, we are now describing the IR in language drawn
from faculty interviews. Thus, we tell faculty that the IR will enable
them to... </p>
<ul>
<li>Make their own work easily accessible to others on the web
through Google searches and searches within the IR itself </li>
<li>Preserve digital items far into the future, safe from loss or
damage </li>
<li>Give out links to their work so that they do not have to spend
time finding files and sending them out as email attachments </li>
<li>Maintain ownership of their own work and control who sees it </li>
<li><i><b>Not</b></i> have to maintain a server </li>
<li><i><b>Not</b></i> have to do anything complicated </li>
</ul>
Rea<br>
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Rea Devakos
T-Space Service Co-ordinator
Information Technology Services
University of Toronto Libraries
7th floor, Robarts Library
130 St. George St
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1A5
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rea.devakos@utoronto.ca">rea.devakos@utoronto.ca</a>
V: 416-946-0113
F: 416-978-1668
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca">http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca</a>
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