Taking Control: Acquiring, Migrating, and Assessing the University's Institutional Repository

In 2024, the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries assumed ownership of the University’s Institutional Repository, previously managed by a separate campus entity. This transition involved not only acquiring the repository, but also migrating the CMS and executing a fullscale rebrand. This lightning talk will share the Libraries’ experience navigating the acquisition, migration, and assessment of a repository previously managed outside of academic librarianship.