Summer of migration: consolidating institutional repositories into a redesigned singular platform.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a state mandated merger of two institutional repositories from two separate campuses of a university into one new institutional repository. Due to a State Legislature mandate, the University of South Florida was required to merge institutional repositories from two campus into one new institutional repository. Design/methodology/approach: USF Libraries formed a committee, planned for the migration and executed of the migration. Findings: The authors discovered many unforeseen issues during the process of the migration such as difficulties with site redirects and hidden collections. Originality/value: This project was a large-scale migration of institutional repositories, under a tight deadline due to a legislative mandate, that has not been discussed in detail in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]