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Hello Library People!</div>

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The WACTC Library Consortium hosted an informative listening session about institutional repositories last month. The group decided that the next step would be creating a needs/skills assessment to determine the deeper needs in an institutional repository.

 This will help guide us as we, then, determine the ideal IR platform.</div>

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We invite your participation in creating the needs/skills assessment. If you would like to volunteer your time, please let me know and I will add you to the list.</div>

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The timeline: We would like to complete the design of the assessment by the end of Fall term 2019. We will plan on administering the assessment during Winter term 2020.</div>

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Thank you!!</div>

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Candice Watkins on behalf of the WACTC Library Consortium</div>

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