Via Digital Koans, I learned that ARL is putting together a task force on “digital repository issues.”
Without a good deal more information about what they mean by a digital repository, what they think the issues are, and whom they’re tapping to serve on the task force, I’m hesitant to be wildly optimistic about this as a good sign for the dismal state of institutional repositories… but I don’t mind being cautiously optimistic, not at all. Of all the organizations that might pick up the IR banner, ARL is the likeliest to do something useful with it.
I do hope this is forward motion. I’ll be the first to cheer if it is!
