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When Mergers Happen: Doubling Your Institutional Repository’S Scope Overnight, Jennifer Deal, Karen Hanus

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Advocate Health Care in Illinois merged into Advocate Aurora Health in 2018. Advocate Aurora Health is a large, multistate health care system that has 26 hospitals, over 500 sites of care, and 75,000 employees. Aurora Health Care implemented an institutional repository (IR) in 2013. Through the merger we were able to expand our IR to include Advocate content in the summer of 2020. In this presentation, we will discuss: Key stakeholder relationships that helped us build the reputation of the IR at legacy Aurora Health Care and ultimately secured support at a system level …