I wonder if readers could provide me with some ammunition to try to convince university administrators that an institutional repository would be a good idea. When I periodically bug our librarian in charge of things digital about this, he says there is no interest at all among deans and vice-presidents for a repository. Although I am an anthropologist, I have very little understanding of how this local tribe (the administrators) thinks and acts. It seems to me that a campus obsessed with raising its external image would want to exploit its many productive units and make their work widely visible and available. But what do I know about the rarified atmosphere in administration-land?
 Now with the state of Arizona in a financial crisis and budgets being cut across the campus, things do not look promising for new initiatives. My immediate plan is to try to set up a small repository for my own unit (with help from the Library) and hope the campus comes on board later. But it would help to have some succinct arguments and evidence, presented in a form that administrators will understand. Any suggestions?  Thanks,  Mike Smith  Michael E. Smith, Professor School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9 http://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com http://calixtlahuaca.blogspot.com Â
