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For printable image click here. Provost Dan Rich and Susan Brynteson, May Morris Director of Libraries, officially launch UD's Institutional Repository with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

The University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository was officially launched at a gathering of deans, faculty and staff at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 15 at the Morris Library. The University of Delaware is one of the first universities in the nation to create an institutional repository for research and scholarship.

The Institutional Repository is a library system that uses Dspace open-source software to make University of Delaware original research available in digital form, including technical reports, working papers, conference papers, images and more, through one interface. The repository is limited to materials for which the copyright is owned by the author or the University. A pilot program was put into place in 2004.

Four examples of the repository were shown on a screen--a comprehensive plan with texts and maps of Georgetown, a tissue collection for cancer research, historic maps of Delaware and the library of 40 years of research by UD's Disaster Research Center, which was recently digitized by the library staff.

Contact: Sue Moncure, (302) 831-1740
May 2, 2005