•Tasks in Gathering
–Discover sources of potentially useful content.
–Search for content that meets their needs.
–Collect references to relevant items they find.
–Import items, descriptions of those items, or
references to those items into learning applications.
–Save copies of some of these items to local applications or
storage.
–Find Related items to those they have collected, in the
same or different repositories.
•Of the activities above, the essential activities that a
digital repository must
directly support are searching, collection, and import.