ADEC April 22, 2008

1. University of Minnesota Digital Repository, myLibrary, and UThink Blog Initiatives John Butler and Shane Nackerud Digital Development Lab University of Minnesota Libraries ADEC April 22, 2008

2. Overview

3. Overview • Digital Repositories • Types, purposes, and many buckets • UThink: Blogs at the U of Minnesota • myLibrary • Personalization at scale

4. A Repository is a Content Destination

5. A Classification of Digital Repositories • Organization • Institutional repositories • Subject/Discipline • Preprint archives – physics, economics, psychology • Object/Format Types • Learning Object, Media, Book repositories • Hybrids and Omnibus • One big bucket; is the web a virtual repository?

6. Institutional Repository: UDC

7. Subject/Discipline Repository: AgEcon

8. Subject/Discipline Repository: AgEcon • Began in 1993 • Self-submitted full-text literature in agricultural and applied economics • From over 120 institutions worldwide, with growing collections from African participants • 30,000 submissions

9. Minnesota Digital Library

10. GO

11. Object Type/Subject: HarvestChoice

12. Many Buckets or Single Search? Take the best of both worlds.

13. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

14. Goals of the project • Promote intellectual freedom • Build communities of interest • Enhance the traditional academic enterprise • Not replace WebCT • Retain the cultural memory of the institution • Officially released April 12, 2004

15. As of April 21, 2008 Over 6,100 blogs created Over 94,000 entries Over 14,000 registered authors 60% undergrads 20% grad students 20% faculty and staff 53% female 47% male Between 800-1100 active blogs at any given time

31. Affinity Strings degree unit campus tc.grad.gs.psy.phd program role

32. Questions? John Butler Associate University Librarian for IT j-butl@umn.edu Shane Nackerud Libraries Web Services Coordinator snackeru@umn.edu