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- 2011 recommendation: N/A
- Current recommendation: This is a term that can mean a variety of different things. From my perspective, for example, it means "library". Not sure if we should change it. (Sue)
- Sue: I'm still at a loss about this one. Synonyms for repository (according to Roget's) are:
- archive
- depository
- storehouse
- depot
- magazine
- safe
- stockroom
- vault
- storage place
- store room
- Different institutions probably use the functionality differently. Maybe some configurable hover
<abbr>text would be useful for institutions to define Repositories in the way they are using it. —TK- I agree with TK here. I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel; "repository" is a common word which covers all of those more specific terms and doesn't bear any additional meanings likely to confuse a researcher.—CS
- I've never experienced any confusion with researchers in regards to the term repository. We use the term because while some of our special collections units reside in free standing libraries with their own reading rooms, some of our special collections units share a single library and reading room. Repository is generic enough that it works for a particular special collections department that could be within a library that may house three departments or it is a special collections unit that stands alone. I think repository is a fine choice for a default term but perhaps, since it is a phrase I heard used by several people in the call, the term "unit" or "collections unit" is functional. - Jessica Crouch
- Sue: I'm still at a loss about this one. Synonyms for repository (according to Roget's) are:
Collections
- 2011 recommendation: Resources
- Current recommendation: Keep
- "Collections" seemed to be well understood by users in the usability testing.
- Lets change this to "Collections" (Sue)
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