Beyond the Repository: A Mixed Method Approach to Providing Access to Collections Online

Abstract

After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that libraries should cultivate a mixed method approach to providing access to digital content.

KEYWORDS:

• institutional repository
• open access publishing
• academic staff
• digitization
• university libraries

Acknowledgments

© Brian Wade Garrison

Notes

1. For access to the collection on DSpace and YouTube, see: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/6581 and http://www.youtube.com/user/jt283and1000

2. http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics (05/20/2013)

3. http://henryjenkins.org/2011/03/over_the_rainbow_john_c_tibbet.html(5/20/2013)

4. http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/12/21/blade-runner-cast-interviews-circa-1982.html(5/20/2013)