Institutional repositories are the latest development in a series of systems aimed at managing digital content. At many colleges and universities, though, institutional repositories operate alongside digital libraries, content management systems, and digital asset management systems as part of the digital information management and provision universe. Each of these systems has multiple definitions and implementations. Christine Borgman analyzed different definitions of digital library and concludes that, broadly speaking, it is 1) a service; 2) an architecture; 3) a set of information resources: databases of text, numbers, graphics, sound, video, and so on; and 4) a set of tools and capabilities to locate, retrieve, and utilize the information resources available.4 These information resources include both primary and secondary sources. Content management systems, enterprise content management systems, and digital asset management systems are also recordkeeping systems used to track and store institutional information.5 IRs overlap with all of these types of information systems. They can focus on the library and special collections materials and look very much like digital libraries, or they can resemble content and digital asset management systems by collecting materials created by members of the institutional community. Furthermore, a considerable amount has been written on institutional repositories.6 We will briefly review what we know about three aspects of IR development and implementation: the role of the archivist, archival content in IRs, and IRs and preservation. These three topics bear on the findings we present later in this article.