Institutional Repositories
Quote: "Institutional repositories build on a growing grassroots faculty practice of posting research online, most often on personal web sites, but also on departmental sites or in disciplinary repositories. This demonstrates a desire for expanded exposure of, and access to, their work. In addition, digital publishing technologies, ever-expanding global networking, and enabling interoperability protocols and metadata standards are coalescing to provide practical technical solutions that can be implemented now. The convergence of these interrelated strands indicates that institutional repositories merit serious and immediate consideration from academic institutions and their constituent faculty, librarians, and administrators."
Comment: Sometimes technology brings to the fore front the need for improvements in how we do things...this is certainly the case with sharing of resources institutionally. Recently, learning objects have hijacked discussions of repositories...this article highlights the need for a repository for sharing knowledge, not only learning objects.