id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bjjfbq4lhng57hzbz3vysf7u6m David Seaman Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository 2011.0 14 .pdf application/pdf 7544 504 46 Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Through inĀ­person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs indicates that an institutional repository can offer services to humanities faculty that are desired by them, especially the digitization, online storage, curation, and sharing of their research materials and publications. Institutional repositories (IRs) are infrastructures through which universities and colleges seek to safeguard instituted "a digital repository for faculty publications" (Primary Research Group, 2009, p.17). while planning repository services to support "scholarly publishing, open access, and institutional branding" The faculty expressed a considerable need for an institutional infrastructure for faculty research materials. Eight interviewees expressed the need for materials to be digitized in order to include them in a repository. Humanities faculty members have scholarship and raw research materials in paper, slide, photo, tape, and college to maintain faculty web sites over time, and for the digitization of paperĀ­based material from research. ./cache/work_bjjfbq4lhng57hzbz3vysf7u6m.pdf ./txt/work_bjjfbq4lhng57hzbz3vysf7u6m.txt