Who Uses this Stuff, Anyway? An Investigation of Who Uses the DigitalCommons@USU

Authors

Andrew Wesolek, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The Serials Librarian

Volume

64

Issue

1

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

Spring 2013

First Page

299

Last Page

306

Abstract

Much 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. The Utah State University Institutional Repository (IR) has reached a stage of maturity in which it is necessary to begin shifting our efforts from encouraging faculty buy-in to understanding our end-users and their needs. This presentation focused on: 1. how USU’s IR reached its mature stage, 2. the results of a brief survey of the end users of our repository, and 3. how these results have informed the further development of our IR.

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