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Description:

This 6-week online course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of institutional repositories (IR), including considering IR platforms, promoting the IR, faculty publications in the IR, additional sources of IR content, IR metadata, and accessibility of IR content.

This six-week course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of metadata, including:

• Similarities and differences between cataloging and metadata
• Descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata schema
• Content standards and controlled vocabularies
• Approaches to metadata creation and transformation
• Metadata project design

2025 Sessions

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Format:

Students receive a registration confirmation after registering. In the registration confirmation students will receive an access code for the course. After using your access code, students will be able to view and start participating in the course. Students have 24/7 access to the course site for the six-week period, and aside from assignment and quiz deadlines, the course may be completed at their own pace. Instructors provide guidance and feedback as students work their way through the course material. Weekly, instructor-moderated Zoom sessions are the only live course events that students are asked to attend.

Weekly Chat Schedule:

There will be a one-hour live weekly chat in zoom.

Week 1: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
Week 2: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
Week 3: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
Week 4: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
Week 5: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT

Week 6: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Identify different types of repository platforms and the features and components they offer
• Develop strategies and methods for promoting the institutional repository to their campus community
• Understand how to interpret publication agreements, particularly with regard to understanding reuse rights or guidelines for repository deposit of published materials
• Comprehend best practices for metadata and create original metadata records for repository content
• Evaluate a variety of content types appropriate for inclusion in an institutional repository, and consider diverse strategies for using the repository to meet the scholarly needs of the campus community
• Identify best practices for making repository content fully accessible and develop workflows for remediating inaccessible repository content

Who Should Attend:

Primarily IR managers, especially those new to IRs, but the course will also be useful for reference librarians, metadata librarians, special collections librarians at institutions where archival materials are stored in the IR, and anyone involved with IR initiatives.

Instructors

• Josh Cromwell is the Scholarly Communications Manager at University of Southern Mississippi
• Emily Hopkins is the Repository Coordinator at University of Saskatchewan, Murray Library

Registration

Cost

• $196.71 Core members;
• $224.10 91��ý members;
• $249 non-members.

Registration fees are in U.S. dollars

How to Register

Register by Mail

using the print registration form. Tip: If you’re unable to open this “register by mail” link, right-click the link and save the form to your computer.

Questions?

For registration questions, call 1-800-545-2433 X1 to speak to our customer service representatives.

Registration Deadline

Registration for each course is limited to 24 people. If you need to request and invoice or registration form, please email registration@ala.org .

Core Code of Conduct

Please review our Statement of Conduct before registering.

Tech Requirements

A Moodle-developed site is composed of self-paced modules with facilitated interaction led by the instructors. There are predetermined start and end dates and a suggested pace which include interaction with the instructors and your classmates. Students regularly use the forum and chat room functions to facilitate their class participation. Section quizzes are offered and feedback given, however, there is no final class grade.

The course website will be open for 1 week prior to the start date for students to have access to Moodle instructions and set their browser correctly. It will remain open 1 week after the end date for students to complete any sections and submit the course evaluation survey.

Credits

Contact Hours - 24 hours

Core defines contact hours in line with the IACET standards on .

Certificates of completion are sent upon successful completion (passing score of 70% or higher) of the course.

Contact

For questions about registration, contact 91��ý Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 1 or email registration@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to this course, please contact corece@ala.org