Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2025-11-20
Description
Since 2022, The TMC Library started using Digital Commons Exhibits, adding 15k items to its 18yr institution repository to include more library archival materials. Traffic of archival collections jumped from 4k, 36k to 107k downloads in 2024, bringing greater impact to not only archives, but the entire library community. Other beneficial impacts have been identified since additional archival materials have been integrated within our institutional repository. Other than more people who have been accessing McGovern Historical Center using their services and materials, The Texas Medical Center Library has noticed changes since more download traffic has been noticed on our institutional repository. In general, more foot traffic, in terms of students using our library services, study rooms, as well as our research materials have also increased. To date, The Texas Medical Center has been utilizing Digital Commons since 2005, starting at 2 articles in 2005, and The Texas Medical Center Library reached its 2 million download milestone in January 2024. We are looking forward to reaching our next milestone when we get to 3 million soon!
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, lightning talk
Rights and Permissions
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Repository Citation
Sherwood, Alice, "Integrating Digital Archives & Scholarship: Raising Awareness of Library Historical Collections" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 23.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/23
Integrating Digital Archives & Scholarship: Raising Awareness of Library Historical Collections
Since 2022, The TMC Library started using Digital Commons Exhibits, adding 15k items to its 18yr institution repository to include more library archival materials. Traffic of archival collections jumped from 4k, 36k to 107k downloads in 2024, bringing greater impact to not only archives, but the entire library community. Other beneficial impacts have been identified since additional archival materials have been integrated within our institutional repository. Other than more people who have been accessing McGovern Historical Center using their services and materials, The Texas Medical Center Library has noticed changes since more download traffic has been noticed on our institutional repository. In general, more foot traffic, in terms of students using our library services, study rooms, as well as our research materials have also increased. To date, The Texas Medical Center has been utilizing Digital Commons since 2005, starting at 2 articles in 2005, and The Texas Medical Center Library reached its 2 million download milestone in January 2024. We are looking forward to reaching our next milestone when we get to 3 million soon!