The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is sponsoring a mid winter symposium, ”Implementing an Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges.” Has your institution begun to develop, or is it considering developing, an institutional repository? If so, will there be a role for the library? Whether you answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to this question, please join us to consider the challenges, pitfalls and promises of establishing and supporting an institutional repository.

An outstanding panel of presenters will discuss thelegal and access issues as well as various IR platforms and models that will provide attendees with the means to make informed decisions regarding the introduction of an institutional repository.

Speakers:

Greg Tananbaum,
Consulting Services at the Intersection of Technology, Content & Academia
Opening and Closing presentations

Georgia Harper
Scholarly Communications Advisor
University of Texas at Austin Libraries

Leah Vanderjagt
Digital Repository Services Librarian
University of Alberta Libraries

Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jessica Branco Colati
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Project Director, Alliance Digital Repository

Bob Gerrity
Director of Library Systems
Boston College Libraries

Robert Tansley
Engineer
Google, Inc.

 Advance registration will open on October 1, 2008 at the ALA conference website.