Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2025-11-20
Description
This presentation highlights the mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory and the Health Science Historical Collections (HSHC), which includes the campus institutional repository (IR). What began as a one-off project has developed into a long-term, ongoing collaboration that enriches both units while expanding access to scholarly resources. Through this collaboration, two new collections were created within the IR. The first makes available archival resources that support nursing theory curriculum, research, and scholarship, ensuring that faculty, students, and researchers have digital access to unique and historically significant materials. The second provides a means for disseminating the research and scholarship produced by the Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory, expanding the reach and impact of the Center’s contributions to the discipline. Together, these collections demonstrate how collaborative partnerships can strengthen institutional repositories. The partnership continues to offer opportunities for growth and engagement between the HSHC and the Newman Center.
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, lightning talk
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2025 The Author.
Repository Citation
Langford, Jennifer, "Cultivating Collections: Growing the IR Through Collaboration" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 10.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/10
Cultivating Collections: Growing the IR Through Collaboration
This presentation highlights the mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory and the Health Science Historical Collections (HSHC), which includes the campus institutional repository (IR). What began as a one-off project has developed into a long-term, ongoing collaboration that enriches both units while expanding access to scholarly resources. Through this collaboration, two new collections were created within the IR. The first makes available archival resources that support nursing theory curriculum, research, and scholarship, ensuring that faculty, students, and researchers have digital access to unique and historically significant materials. The second provides a means for disseminating the research and scholarship produced by the Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory, expanding the reach and impact of the Center’s contributions to the discipline. Together, these collections demonstrate how collaborative partnerships can strengthen institutional repositories. The partnership continues to offer opportunities for growth and engagement between the HSHC and the Newman Center.