New, New, New: UAB's New Repository on a New Platform with a New Librarian
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Abstract
2023 Southern Mississippi Institutional Repository Conference, Hattiesburg, MS, April 27-28, 2023
Publication Date
4-28-2023
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Recommended Citation
Reese, Amy, "New, New, New: UAB's New Repository on a New Platform with a New Librarian" (2023). Libraries Professional Work. 29.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/libraries-pw/29
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham is launching a new open access repository using the Digital Commons platform. I was hired to make this happen. Starting with nothing, my first question was, so now what? I will discuss the challenges faced with having zero institutional knowledge and having a skill set grown under a very different focus. More generally, I will discuss why repositories are important, especially in an age where everyone Googles first. I would like to explore the lie of ubiquitous information, and the role libraries should be playing in promoting unique local content.