[Dspace-general] faculty buy-in

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Jody,

Your question was the topic of many hours of discussion at the recent 
DSpace users group meeting... it's pretty clear that getting faculty 
participation (without extensive support from the library) isn't easy, if 
only for lack of time and other priorities, and that information sharing 
between institutions will be a big part of our collective strategy for 
success. But I fear it's hard to answer your question in a forum like this 
one... the MIT Libraries' marketing plan for our DSpace service, as one 
example, takes too long to explain in an email (that anyone would have the 
patience to read, much less write!).

One thing we've done about this is talk to SPARC about sponsoring an 
"Institutional Repositories implementors workshop" in the fall -- similar 
to the DSpace meeting but a) including users of other repository platforms 
(e.g. EPrints, FEDORA, BEPress, Documentum, etc.) and b) focusing 
exclusively on IRs rather than being general to a particular repository 
platform. SPARC is very receptive to the idea, as long as we (the IR 
community) are willing to help them plan the program for such an event. If 
this is something the DSpace community who are building IRs would like to 
see happen I will happily collect names and work with SPARC to create a 
program planning committee.

Of course, if others would like to go ahead and write up there strategies 
here, all the better! And the presentations on this subject that were given 
at the DSpace meeting will be online later this week.

MacKenzie


At 02:28 PM 4/2/2004 -0500, Jody DeRidder wrote:
>Have any of you folks had difficulty getting faculty to buy into the concept
>of storing their research in DSpace?
>   If so, I'm wondering what has and has not worked for you, in getting this
>kind of grassroots support, interest, and involvement at your institution.
>
>   --jody
>
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