Ex Libris–an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies has an interesting article by Blake Carver ( Ohio State University and LISNews.com blogger par excellence) entitled, “Creating an institutional repository: a role for libraries.” He writes, and I agree, that libraries are not becoming superfluous relics, but are perfectly situated to be key players in the creation of institutional repositories. “This new system allows different parts of the campus community to be tied together via the library. The library then takes on a new centralized role which extends our traditional skills of preservation, cataloging, and access control.”

–Kindly gleaned from Walt Crawford’s “Sites & Insights, August, 2003″

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