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Over the past decade, the technical marketing term “cloud computing” has led users and organizations to enter into contractual agreements that sometimes result in the inappropriate use of content without their knowledge and additional risk for breaches of privacy. These agreements also can end up “vendor locking” organizations into services that take on a subscription model as opposed to true data ownership from self-hosting. While this shift occurred, processors evolved at a pace that allowed the adoption of smartphones which now equal pocket computers. Many smartphones run on the ARM based processor platform, that facilitates powerful processing and relatively low power consumption. With the arrival of the successful ARM processor based, educational microcomputer called the “Raspberry Pi”, a whole new market of credit card sized microcomputers has started to flourish. These microcomputers have the capability of running web server applications that can be used in libraries of all sizes. This potential “desktop datacenter” advancement is profound for small libraries like those found in churches and seminaries around the world. With low power consumption, these single board servers give the capability to service areas that have never had the opportunity to host application servers due to unstable electricity. This paper illustrates the use of the single board computing platform named “BeagleBone Black” running Ubuntu Linux, to host the institutional repository application Omeka. This work guides a small library to build an IR site, supporting The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management Dublin Core metadata with Omeka, for under a $200 while assuring complete content ownership.   The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management: Using the BeagleBone Black Microcomputer to Host Omeka. Introduction Technical innovation and library services have shared in an interesting evolution over the past 50 years. No matter the size or type of library, the last two decades have seen an accelerated pace of change in innovation relating to digital library services. In the 1960’s and 70’s, library non-profit organizations were highly innovative as they helped to usher in the “digital age”. However, by the late 1990’s, library organizations began to feel fiscal headwinds, and user expectation challenges. As Silicon Valley began to boom with a flood of venture capital, and web services such as Google started to take shape, the early signs of what we now call “the cloud” were forming. At the same time, libraries appeared to shift from being technically proactive, to becoming reactive when it came to hosting and owning their own digital platforms. Today, the idea of libraries being digital service consumers has taken full hold as many libraries purchase “cloud” hosted, contracted services like integrated library platforms, content management systems, and institutional repositories. Examples are platforms such as OCLC’s WorldShare Management, ExLibris’ Alma, content management products like LibGuides, and hosted institutional repositories like bePress. In the past, though libraries did not directly program their ILS’s, or other software, they did at least take the responsibility to host and own the server platforms that ran the The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management service. With the advent of “the cloud”, this idea of owning and running in house systems has been replaced with a signature on a contract and an internet connection. The purpose of this research was to offer small libraries an alternative to cloud hosted solutions. With the evolution of computer hardware and ARM based processor technology, it was decided that for this project, a digital repository could be created at a very low cost using the BeagleBone Black single board system. Using an open source operating system and application like Ubuntu Linux and Omeka, this work illustrates how a small library can insure ownership and secure institutional content locally. By following this model, libraries retain full ownership of digital material, and mitigate security risks that are not always apparent when entering a relationship with cloud a provider. This paper does not seek to question the value of every cloud based service on the market today. However, this paper seeks to examine questions that surround the cloud, such as security, digital content ownership, and the fiscal advantages and disadvantages associated to such services. We believe these are very valid questions as another technical advancement runs parallel to the cloud. This advancement involves the basic premise that processor technology has also evolved at the same time as the cloud. This advancement in processor technology has not only resulted in the growth of “the cloud” and mobile technologies, but has also created small scale server platforms now referred to as “micro-servers”. Many entry level micro-servers exist on the market today. The most popular of these is the Raspberry Pi, which was developed as an educational platform at the The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management University of Cambridge (Raspberry Pi, 2013). The BeagleBone Black is a close second in popularity which has been developed by Texas Instruments in collaboration with CircuitCo. The BeagleBone Black (BBB) is a more robust platform that is capable of running many server versions of the Linux operating system. For this proof of concept paper, we have selected the Ubuntu version of Linux to showcase this micro-server’s potential as a counter to a library cloud hosted service. We have successfully ported over the lightweight institutional repository platform Omeka, and propose its use in small theological library environments. This proof of concept illustrates how libraries of all sizes can use the BeagleBone Black, at a cost of under $100, to host and own digital content for an institutional repository. In particular, for theological, church, and international mission libraries, this setup can be used to build a low cost platform that can host digital content, and also provide a means of preservation for the library and its customers. Not only does this paper aim to give the reader a different idea about cloud based services and micro-server advancements, it will also illustrates our experiences building three working Omeka servers on the BeagleBone Black. A process of detailed documentation was undertaken through these server builds, to provide the reader with a framework to replicate this project. After one or two test builds, this process of building a working Omeka server can now be done by the authors in less than two hours. Most of that time is spent in downloading updates to the Ubuntu operating system. Therefore, conceptually after this research, a working institutional repository is more than possible The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management in less than two hours of work, with a cost that is a fraction of a typical organizational cloud contract. Literature Review Admittedly, there is little research available in library literature today regarding the use of single board micro-servers as a hosting platform for library services. There have been several articles written about using the Raspberry Pi as an educational platform in libraries, but finding academic scholarship around using micro-server devices to host content is limited. Instead, in this review, we will explore information at a broader level relating to institutional repository platforms and their use today. We will examine the history of the BeagleBone Black itself, the history of Omeka as a lightweight IR, and general technology advancements in the micro-server market. Application of these ideas in combination, will relate to the potential of this project for small libraries, such as those found in churches and theological institutions around the world.   Institutional Repositories Today and Potential for Theological Libraries. Clifford Lynch (2003) defines institutional repositories as “a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of the community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members” (p.2). Ryam Crow (2002) notes the contribution of the institutional repository as “an immediate and valuable complement to the existing scholarly publishing model, while stimulating innovation in a new disaggregated The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management publishing structure that will evolve and improve over time” (p.4). Crow further explains the advantage of institutional repositories, “Moreover, they can be introduced by reallocating existing resources, usually without extensive technical development” (p.4). Andrew Keck (2008) notes some challenges for libraries in implementing digital repositories is to deal with the primary function in digital reposition, which is to discover the content, describe it thoroughly, and to seek new content (Keck, 2008, p.7). There is a gap in the research on the use of institutional repositories in theological libraries. An implication for potential of research in this area exists. An institutional repository gives the theological library the potential to tell the story of the seminary through the years. The IR can be a platform to express the Christian faith throughout the world. It has the capability of allowing the student and faculty to get the Gospel message through their scholarly work outside the walls of the seminary. The opportunity for sermon manuscripts to be stored on the IR allows churches to download a student’s candidating works. Use of institutional repositories in theological libraries can impact services for both students and faculty. The institutional repository becomes the platform for the content of the seminary. Another appealing concept is that the possibilities are not limited to the United States, but can be viewed worldw