<div dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Christy Shorey" <<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>><br>Date: 16 Feb 2017 18:59<br>Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] New Forum for IR Managers<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_5296856558485838650gmail-docs-internal-guid-00ad4a2b-47d9-b23b-add5-4c531918e808"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Good Afternoon,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Institutional repository managers from libraries at the University of Massachusetts, University of Florida, University of North Texas and Texas A&M University, are collaborating to start the IR Managers Forum. This forum is specifically designed to support information sharing among institutional repository managers, regardless of software platform, institutional setting, or technical expertise.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">As IR managers, we often deal with common problems and stand to benefit from understanding how our colleagues approach these issues. Conversations have the potential to help individual managers develop their repository policies, outreach, workflows, and best practices. They can also aid in cross-platform comparisons to identify software features and limitations, larger trends in institutional repositories, and future directions.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">To join the IR Managers Forum, visit: </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/irmanagers" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://groups.google.com/<wbr>forum/#!forum/irmanagers</span></a></span></p><br>-- <br><div class="m_5296856558485838650gmail_signature">

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145)">Christy Shorey</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145)">, MLIS</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145)">Manager
of UF Institutional Repository</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145)">Digital
Support Services, George A. Smathers Library</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(54,95,145)">University
of Florida</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">P.O.
Box 117003</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Gainesville,
FL  32611-7003</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">352.273.2831</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:chrshor@uflib.ufl.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif">chrshor@uflib.ufl.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"corbel",sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(68,114,196)">ORCID: </span><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-8085" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt">0000-0002-9172-8085</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(68,114,196)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(68,114,196)">PGP: she, her,
hers</span></p>

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