From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:38:26 +0000

Thanks very much to all the LIBLICENSE and SERIALST readers who
responded to my question “Who runs your IR — a staff employee or a
librarian?” last week. As promised, here’s a summary of the responses:

* I received 83 responses in total, 71 of them from individual
academic libraries or (in a handful of cases) library consortia or
statewide systems in the United States or Canada. Twelve came from
academic institutions or government libraries in Europe (3), the UK
(1), Australia (2), Asia (5), and the Middle East (1).

* Among the respondents were two medical libraries and three law libraries.

* Four respondents (two US institutions, one from Asia, and one from
Europe) reported that they could not say who was “in charge” of their
IR, and that it was run by a mixed team of librarians and staff.

* Of the 79 remaining respondents, only six reported that a staff
employee is in charge of the IR. Four of these are US institutions,
one is in Europe, and one is in the UK.

* The 73 remaining respondents reported that their IRs are run by
librarians. Most identified a single individual, but a handful
indicated that management duties for the IR are spread among two or
more librarians.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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