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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Greetings! Earlier this summer, the WACTC library consortium conducted a survey among CTC libraries to determine the interest level in a state-wide/consortium-led
project aimed at the<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white">creation and/or support of institutional repositories at WACTC libraries</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">.
The responses indicated interest in such a project! The consortium would like to begin the process of understanding better the various visions and needs for institutional repositories and plans to offer a series of online listening sessions. We'll provide
a brief overview of institutional repositories and explore other aspects, such as:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px">Overall structure - Are we looking for a CTC-system solution or primarily a local solution (or both)?</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px">The idea of deep collaboration between institutions focused on sharing workflows, ideas, and support</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px">And more! We are open to discussions on all aspects of IRs and institutional needs!</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">We will break down each of these categories in our listening session with the goal of capturing what institutions want/need in an IR and how best to proceed as a
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Please join us!</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">What:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><span> </span>Institutional Repositories & WA CTC Libraries</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Who:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><span> </span>WACTC Library Consortium - this means all
of us! Any and all library workers in the WA CTC system are invited to take part in this discussion</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">When:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><span> </span>October 17, 2-3 p.m. (future sessions will
be scheduled...in the future!)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Zoom link: <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><a href="https://zoom.us/j/424316794" id="LPlnk538921">https://zoom.us/j/424316794</a> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">~~ As a refresher, here’s an overview of institutional repositories, as well as a description of the WACTC Library Consortium.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white">The Washington CTC Library Consortium (</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/wactclc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: white; text-decoration: underline">WACTCLC</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; background-color: white">)
includes all library workers at CTC libraries in the state of WA.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Institutional repositories are commonly found in and administered by academic libraries and can be used to curate and make discoverable faculty and student scholarship,
student-created learning objects and projects, student publications, art, music, and OER, to list a few examples. The scope of institutional repositories is far-ranging and the impact reaches beyond curation and discoverability to creating a connection between
student-produced work and the sharing or publication of that work with the greater community. Institutional repositories amplify student voice in a time when community colleges place that student voice at the center of their main initiatives, such as OER,
open pedagogy, capstone projects, and guided pathways.</span></p>
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</b>Candice Watkins on behalf of the WACTC Library Consortium</div>
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