Institutional digital repositories (IRs) are increasingly deployed in academic institutions to manage a variety of digital content including educational, research, and archival materials. The benefits of Institutional digital repositories have been touted by many authors and include increased knowledge sharing Yeates (2003), control over the digital assets of the university (Crow 2002a, 2002b), and preservation (Lynch 2003). Gibbons (2004) cites major benefits such as stewardship, efficiencies, showcasing an institution and wider distribution as compelling reasons for establishing an IR. All of these benefits involve digital curation because they span the information life-cycle and involve achieving goals that are central to digital curation, such as “interoperability with the future” and “communication across time” (Rusbridge et al. 2005).