Grinnell College has joined a group of liberal arts colleges to develop a digital institutional repository, technology used to share the academic work of students, faculty, and staff on-campus, across campuses, and world-wide. LASR (http://www.lasrworks.org/) is the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository. Examples of work that might be appropriate for LASR include student papers or student posters nominated by a faculty member; faculty syllabi or assignments; pre-print or post-print journal articles from faculty or students. All work should be a scholarly, educational, research-oriented, or original creative work and be considered to be a valuable and enduring resource to the sponsoring institution. We especially encourage the submission of works produced by students -- such as theses, prize-winning papers, advanced projects or capstone projects, and artistic, literary and musical productions. We are also interested in works that document the history of liberal arts institutions and the methods and ideas of a liberal arts education. The availability of student and faculty work through such a repository – along with other works about the College or produced by College-affiliated individuals or groups – may provide models, inspiration, and stimulation for inquiry-based learning while showcasing the creative and scholarly achievements of our community.
Submitting Your Work:
- Review the LASR Authorization Form
- Contact Cecilia Knight, Associate Librarian of the College: knight@grinnell.edu Supply the following information:
- where and when the material has been presented or published (if it has been)
- names of sponsors/advisors/professors
- a citation for the published version (if it has been previously published)
- a brief description of the content
- subject keywords
- Include a digital or physical version of the item (e.g., a copy of a paper; a pdf of a paper; a digital photo of a sculpture)
Common Questions:
What kinds of work does LASR accept?
My work has already been published in a journal. Would I be able to add it to LASR?
Are there restrictions on file formats that can be added to LASR?
Digital Repositories at Liberal Arts Colleges and Elsewhere
Claremont Colleges: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/
Connecticut College: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/
Indiana University: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/
Macalester College: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/
University of Kansas: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/
University of Rochester: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/index.jsp
Grinnell's participation in LASR has been implemented by the Libraries, Information Technology Services, and Curricular Technology.
What is a Digital Institutional Repository?
“A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution. … [An] effective institutional repository of necessity represents a collaboration among librarians, information technologists, archives and records mangers, faculty, and university administrators and policymakers. … [A] key part of the services that comprise an institutional repository is the management of technological changes, and the migration of digital content from one set of technologies to the next as part of the organizational commitment to providing repository services. An institutional repository is not simply a fixed set of software and hardware”--Clifford A. Lynch, "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age", ARL Bimonthly Report, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
