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Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Andrew Wesolek
A great deal of the professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in for institutional repositories. However, little is known about the end users of these repositories. This is unfortunate since great content is of little value if no one uses it and knowing more about users and their needs leads to more relevant content. So, we need to ask ourselves: "Who exactly is using this stuff, anyway?" Since 2010, Utah State University has begun surveying its IR users to answer this question. DigitalCommons@USU houses more than 26,000 documents with full-text downloads of over 800,000. With this much …
Digitizing Items From Special Collections: The Usu Approach, Clinton R. Pumphrey, Andrew Wesolek
Digitizing Items From Special Collections: The Usu Approach, Clinton R. Pumphrey, Andrew Wesolek
Andrew Wesolek
The presentation outlines a USU pilot project in using the Institutional Repository to promote and provide access to materials in Special Collections.