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Greensboro, NC and Oslo, Norway – January 10, 2024. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC Greensboro) has selected TIND Institutional Repository (TIND IR) and TIND Digital Archive (TIND DA) to preserve and enhance access to its digital collections. By adopting TIND’s repository platform, UNC Greensboro joins a growing number of academic institutions consolidating their IR and digital collections onto a single platform to streamline workflows, enhance metadata management, and improve accessibility and discoverability across collections.


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UNC Greensboro manages two major repositories: Gateway Digital History Collections and North Carolina Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (NC DOCKS). The Gateway collections feature oral histories, city directories, university publications, and artifacts highlighting the history of UNCG and its community, while NC DOCKS serves as an open-access repository for scholarly works, including peer-reviewed journal articles, theses, dissertations, and multimedia content. The library will be migrating a collection of over 12 TB to a combined TIND DA and TIND IR install, moving from a locally managed installation of Islandora for DA and a locally developed system for IR.

“The UNC Greensboro University Libraries have selected TIND for both our Gateway and NC DOCKS repositories,” said David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator and Associate Professor at UNCG. “We were seeking a sustainable long-term solution for our evolving IT environment, centered on an externally hosted platform, and TIND seemed far and away the best option for us. With its clean user interface and dedicated applications for both digital asset management and institutional repositories, we look forward to entering a new era for our digital history and scholarship collections.”

By choosing TIND’s hosted platform, UNC Greensboro benefits from a solution that not only streamlines workflows but also ensures reliable, ongoing support and development. The platform’s intuitive interface, flexible metadata structure, and commitment to staying ahead of future standards will enable the University to efficiently manage its digital collections while adapting to evolving needs. 

About UNC Greensboro University Libraries
The UNCG University Libraries are dedicated to promoting learning, inspiring creativity, and enhancing research and collaboration in a diverse and innovative environment. They support the university's academic mission and transform lives through their commitment to student success.

About TIND
TIND is an official CERN spin-off providing commercial library management systems, digital preservation, and research data management solutions based on CERN open-source software. Serving academic, public, and special research libraries around the globe, TIND is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. More info at www.tind.io 

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