Managing Change: An Organizational Outline for Reimagining the Digital Repository Infrastructure at The Ohio State University Libraries

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

The Ohio State University Libraries is an example of an organization that had very early success implementing a campus-wide institutional repository. Organizationally, the Libraries, in partnership with the central IT division on campus, developed and implemented one of the early institutional repository success stories by focusing on the capture of content largely ignored by most academic institutional repository programs. However, as time has passed, the Libraries needs have extended beyond the scope of the institutional repository and the libraries present ability to support a wide range of digitized and born-digital content. Realizing that that were gaps within the Libraries’ current infrastructure and organization model, the Libraries has undertaken a self-reflective look at its organization, identifying gaps, and long-term opportunities, and developing a set of recommendations and roadmaps to ensure that the Libraries can meet the needs of the University community and its global partners. Given the size and complexity of the organization and its needs, this paper outlines the process the Libraries has undertaken to build the foundation and consensus necessary in implementing such radical changes.