New Role for Librarian and Knowledge Repository

1. Institutional repositories provide a marketplace for knowledge by capturing, disseminating, and preserving the research output of an institution. They help promote open access to information. 2. Setting up and managing an institutional repository involves activities like system evaluation, formulating policies, recruiting content, and providing reference assistance to users. Librarians play an important role in these activities. 3. As institutional repositories become more popular, the roles of librarians are changing. They now engage more in advocacy, education, advisory work, and training related to open access, self-archiving, and using institutional repositories.