The IR Venn Diagram: Diversity in Technology, Content, Users, and Roles in Specialized Institutional Repositories

In this poster, librarians from six academic libraries – representing various sectors including science, technology, engineering, medicine, music, and large universities – collaborated to explore and reflect on the academic IR community that encompasses specialized libraries, collections, and formats. The authors answered self-survey questions and responses were analyzed for visualization in the poster. The poster spotlights diversity in technology, content, users, roles, priorities, and challenges. It also illustrates some of the common threads and opportunities that have relevance and implications in both the special library and the broader IR landscape.