To grow an institutional repository (IR) sustainably, the library as IR administrator need to engage in three kinds of practical tasks; Firstly, to let university executives authorize the IR and develop “campus consensus”. Next, to seek, gather and register contents continuously in place of the faculties. Finally, to utilize the IR as the rich stock behind the “show window” of the university's outcomes. In this report, such practical strategies for IR operation are described based on experiences from Chiba University’s IR project (CURATOR).
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