Building A Digital Repository

Building a digital repository seems a big thing to most of people, but you can always start with something small, concrete and under your control.

We are at a small liberal arts college, apparently, we want to effectively use all resources and provide better services and products for faculty and students. When we started to build the digital repository, we thought we not only provide a virtual place for digital collection, but also create a platform for our faculty and students to demonstrate their works and talents, share their views and promote their academic achievements. What we want to do here is to give each department flexibility to build their own community and collection for each specific disciplinary purpose, eventually, it will be interactive virtual community, which promotes research and scholarship, ultimately, students will have open access to electronic publications for their scholarly communication.