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Transitioning Your Institutional Repository Into A Digital Archive, Lauren P. Seney Aug 2013

Transitioning Your Institutional Repository Into A Digital Archive, Lauren P. Seney

Lauren P. Seney

The Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary has spent the past several years developing a digital repository. The scope of digital collections has evolved from one of a strictly scholarly nature to incorporate the Law School’s historical materials. Now the repository houses both the intellectual output of the law faculty and the school’s digital archive.


Building A Digital Archive: The William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository, Lauren P. Seney Aug 2013

Building A Digital Archive: The William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository, Lauren P. Seney

Lauren P. Seney

In July of 2010 the William & Mary Law School broke ground on a digital repository. Six months later, we boasted more than 5,000 items across eleven collections. While this pace could not be maintained when the existing digital content was exhausted, it created a template for expanding the repository beyond our initial goals.