Contest: Name Sheridan’s soon-to-be launched digital institutional repository!

Sheridan’s new institutional repository (IR) will be unveiled in October and Library and Learning Services needs your help to name it!

What’s an IR and why should you be excited about it? Using search engines like Google and Google Scholar, an IR broadcasts Sheridan’s creative, scholarly and research work on the Internet and gets that work discovered by worldwide scholarly and creative communities. Our expertise, our learning, our creativity and our dedication to teaching: all discoverable on the Internet through the IR!

We’re counting on you to come up with a name that will reflect the vibrant, informative and creative content Sheridan faculty and students will be broadcasting to the world including creative works, gallery exhibits, journal articles, research papers, conference proceedings, academically excellent student works, collections of value to student learning and more.

Here’s Sheridan’s IR mission statement to get you started:

The Sheridan institutional repository serves as a collaborative commons for research, scholarship and creative activities that enriches our approach to teaching and learning and expresses Sheridan’s values.

Want to see what other schools have called their IRs?

Bryn Mawr College

Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College

http://repository.brynmawr.edu/

Grant MacEwan University

Ro@M Research Online @ MacEwan

http://roam.macewan.ca/

Kwantlen Polytechnical University

KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access

http://kora.kpu.ca/

University of Akron

IdeaExchange@UAkron

University of Tennessee

TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange

Western

Scholarship@Western http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/

Contest Details:

The contest is open until Sunday, May 31. Please send your submissions via email to Pamela McBride at pamela.mcbride@sheridancollege.ca and include in the email subject line: IR Naming Contest. The winning name will be selected by members of the Scholarly Engagement and Institutional Repository Working Group and the VP Academic and will be announced at the Scholars and Creators Conference on October 28.  A prize will be presented to the winner at the event.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Joan Sweeney Marsh,

Director, Library and Learning Services

Patricia Buckley,

Digital Curator and Special Collections Librarian

Susan Shepley

Scholarly Engagement and Applied Research Librarian