A Study on the Training System of Institutional Repository Staffs

ABSTRACT Institutional repository has been regarded as core facilities o f research libraries to realize open access by collecting, preserving, distributing of intellec tual asset what institution has created. In our country, many universities and research institu tions are trying to introduce institutional repository system. But almost universities not only take the negative attitude to manage properly, but also never give basic training to staff members who take over institutional repository job. This study brightens up the current status of K orean training system and compares the British and Japanese cases what shows diverse advanced mana ging cases. Furthermore, by putting together demands of hands-on workers, suggest direction of future institutional repository staff training system. First, institutional reposito ry staff training system has to suggest strategies to induce strong support from institution. Second, i t has to give not only courses about content collecting and registering, but also practical training . Finally, the program for enhancing system management technology has to be provided, and the place where technical staffs can share their system information mutually has to be provided.