Reimagining the IR

Over the past decade, the rapidly evolving scholarly and digital landscape has necessitated that institutional repositories (IRs) be agile in order to meet the ever expanding needs of researchers. This has challenged IR infrastructure and pushed libraries to become not just collectors of open access content but publishers themselves. In this talk, Wipperman will discuss some of the ways in which repositories have changed over the past decade and how stakeholder needs have evolved alongside IR capabilities. She will look at current efforts to revolutionize IR infrastructure and propose ways that we might radically reimagine IRs as a community