Quality control (QC) of an institutional repository: a hands-on.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show the quality control process and techniques of an open-source digital library (DL)/institutional repository (IR) in an institution. It will also demonstrate the challenges for quality control of a digital library in an institution. Design/methodology/approach: It will explain metadata quality control and structural quality control and some matters that are important for an ideal IR. It also describes data migration from one repository to another. Findings: Metadata without quality is just junk. Library personnel should have adequate library science educational qualifications to do the DL work. Non-professionals may create junk in the IR. Quality control can ensure the standard of a digital IR. Originality/value: This study drowns upon the practical experience of DSpace quality control of a private university library in Bangladesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]