Pardon Our Progress: Renovating UGA's Institutional Repository, Athenaeum

Room A

In March of 2020, The University of Georgia Libraries began the process of migrating our institutional repository, Athenaeum (https://esploro.libs.uga.edu/esploro/), from the DSpace repository platform to ExLibris Esploro. Over the course of about 14 months, we developed a migration plan, extracted and cleaned up data for import, and centralized assets from three different systems into the new repository. While there were a few bumps in the road along the way, with the combined efforts of UGA Libraries personnel and our implementation team at ExLibris we were able to successfully launch our renovated repository. This presentation will cover how we did it, what worked, what didn’t, and what we’d do differently if we had the chance. I will also talk about what we have planned for Athenaeum in the future so that we can continue to develop our institutional repository program into a service that meets our users' needs.