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1 Training the University Community for Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories Melanie Feltner-Reichert The University of Tennessee Thura R. Mack The University of Tennessee Cindy Gray The Ohio State University Copyright Melanie Feltner-Reicher, Thura R. Mack and Cindy Gray, 2005 This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the authors.

2 Title Introduction to session The importance of institutional repositories Communities who use institutional repositories Building bridges Institutional repositories and ETDs

3 Title Institutional repositories Our research on repositories Beta repository Usability testing Preliminary training material set Changing roles of librarians and creators Literature review and content analysis Librarians as trainers not only collection developers

4 Title Fulfilling the new role Efforts to educate faculty and staff Gap in literature Strategies for cross-institutional application Cross-institutional dialog Training materials

5 Introducing the repository model Our webpage Goals and outcomes Research team The repository model Short and easy to read Answers initial questions raised

6 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) Introduction and background Tutorial production Tutorial demonstration

7 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) ETDs Suitable for archives and world wide access Allows more comprehensive searches Most common format is an Acrobat PDF file

8 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) Students required to submit electronically Training a large number of students within many departments

9 The Need for ETD Training Training specific for ETDs was needed Students were overlooking Acrobat’s rich feature set Navigation Multimedia User Interaction Support for users with special needs

10 Adobe Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD) TELR

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12 Review Team Members from NDLTD and Adobe Reviews Tutorial lesson selection Written versions Demo movies Final review

13 Usability Testing Informal testing Students completed a lesson Asked to perform specific tasks Accessibility testing Acrobat read out loud feature JAWS

14 Production ETD example by OSU graduate, Heidi Wick Writing, narration, audio and video editing, design and development all by OSU professional staff

15 Tutorial Sites http://www.adobe.com/education/ etd/tutorials.html http://www.adobe.com/education/ etd/tutorials.html http://gradsch.osu.edu/Depo/ ETD_Tutorial/etdtutorials/ http://gradsch.osu.edu/Depo/ ETD_Tutorial/etdtutorials/

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17 Tutorial Sites http://www.adobe.com/education/ etd/tutorials.html http://www.adobe.com/education/ etd/tutorials.html http://gradsch.osu.edu/Depo/ ETD_Tutorial/etdtutorials/ http://gradsch.osu.edu/Depo/ ETD_Tutorial/etdtutorials/

18 Contact Information Melanie Feltner-Reichert Email: mfeltner@utk.edumfeltner@utk.edu Thura Mack Email: tmack@utk.edutmack@utk.edu


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