2021-2023 — Hyku for Consortia: Removing Barriers to Adoption
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., will increase the flexibility, accessibility, and usability of Hyku, the multi-tenant repository platform system. This project will extend previous work and improve the national digital repository infrastructure by enhancing an open-source platform suitable for access to diverse types of materials, addressing needs articulated by stakeholders and consortia, and reducing barriers to adoption. In addition to technology development, we will develop an operational toolkit geared toward the administration of consortially owned and managed repository services that is agnostic to any specific technology. The toolkit will provide guidelines, information, and other materials to support the development of similar services in other consortia.
For more information, visit: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-250163-ols-21
2019-2021 — Scaling up a Collaborative Consortial Institutional Repository
The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) is partnering with the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (representing 94 academic libraries in Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York), to explore, develop, and pilot an open source, multi-tenant, consortial institutional repository (IR). The model should deliver ultra low-cost hosting, discovery, and access to digital material for member libraries. Ultimately, project collaborators aim to create a consortial IR service individual libraries may use, customize, and brand as their own, while building the capacity and functionality required to share underlying infrastructure, hosting, and administration costs across institutions. Partnering organizations will build member libraries’ capacity to serve their communities with access to digital collections by reducing IR-hosting and administration costs through shared infrastructure.
For more information, visit: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-36-19-0108-19-0
Evolving Consortial Needs
Consortia merging and evolving to adapt to new fiscal realities
Cross-consortial partnerships seek ways to engage in deep collaboration
Economies of scale (achieved through consortia) can be applied in new areas
Repository Landscape
Currently, only single tenant installations are available, which are unsuitable for consortia
Commercial services that do offer hosting are expensive and are not open source
Separate repositories at institutions create information silos
COLLABORATION
OPEN SOURCE
SUSTAINABLE
COST-EFFECTIVE
SHARED GOVERNANCE
MULTI-TENANT
CUSTOMIZABLE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Available solutions are feature poor
Libraries face large obstacles in standing up repository solutions
PALNI found that 70% of their members did not have a repository and 65% were interested in a consortial services
Libraries and IRs
IRs may need to develop more than just hosting capacities
In addition to scholarly materials, many libraries need a solution for Open Educational Resources
Modern IRs must support a multitude of new emerging formats
