Life with a ‘Mature’ Repository: Where Do We Go From Here?

Presenters: Jeffrey Mortimore, Nathan Banks, Alison Darby

While libraries ‘own’ their repositories, we don’t always ‘own’ the content that makes them valuable to the institution, the library, or collection stakeholders. Any significant changes we make to our repositories or related services need to balance these interests. During this session, we will discuss assessment of ‘mature’ repositories in the context of competing stakeholder interests. We will explore what it means for a repository to be ‘mature,’ then consider a three-part approach to assessment of platforms, collections, and services that seeks to balance these interests. Finally, we will invite attendees to evaluate their own repositories using this method.