50 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Providing copyright assistance, identifying open materials.
Providing expertise, resources, and fertile space to power transformative open education.
Research libraries have licensed content that can be used in classrooms. Libraries can help with
creation of digital course packs.
Research libraries will be in the OER services. Research libraries will be encouraging the use of open
materials, support the access to open materials for both faculty and students, and encourage production
of open textbooks and materials. Research libraries will help us find and reuse OERs, as well as make our
OERs discover-able.
Research libraries will continue to drive the adoption of affordable course material, but will do it
in concert with other campus stakeholders such as administration, faculty, university presses, and
students. They will support the creation of new OER by acting as a consultant, publisher, and promoter.
Research libraries will make OER resources findable in local catalogs will work on system “dumps” of
publicly available material. Librarians have domain knowledge and data collection expertise.
Research libraries, especially those that oversee a university press, should take a leadership role in
identifying where gaps exist in the existing open textbook literature to strategically develop and
produce open textbooks—and develop publishing platforms that simplify the process for faculty at
all institutions to adapt their learning content for openness. These libraries should also create global
partnerships to ensure that libraries and partner organizations are working together to create textbook
affordability. In general, create a culture of openness in higher education.
Same as above. [I’d like to see libraries play a more active role in providing alternative publishing
options for faculty and groups of faculty who become aware of cost-related student textbook problems.]
See above. [Much expanded from where we are now.]
See above. [We envision our role being that of a change agent.] Applies to affordable and OER. We focus
on what best meets the faculty needs rather than one particular content type. OER may not be the
answer for everyone.
Support for adoption, adaptation, and creation through outreach and information provision, project
funding, identifying useful resources, tech support for projects.
Support national OER efforts. It’s preferable to have OER published in national/disciplinary
repositories instead of each academic library maintaining their own repositories.
Supporting role: copyright and repository expertise
The libraries can collect and catalog teaching, learning, and research resources that are free to use,
share, and adapt. The libraries can help faculty identify free or low-cost alternatives to expensive
textbooks. Libraries can advise faculty about copyright and intellectual property issues.
The role of research libraries in OER services in the future is primarily two-fold: (1) serving as a
repository and/or publishing/disseminating OER and (2) outreach, communication, and marketing to
encourage discovery, access, and integration of OER into teaching and learning activities.
There are areas on campus that are investigating open educational resources, but it is too preliminary
for a cohesive plan.
This survey will start some discussions.
To collaborate with other academic units to encourage the adoption of OER.
We can see this and other research libraries becoming a central repository of expertise and server space
(our institutional repository) for locally developed OER materials and we have this as part of the pilot
program described earlier.
Providing copyright assistance, identifying open materials.
Providing expertise, resources, and fertile space to power transformative open education.
Research libraries have licensed content that can be used in classrooms. Libraries can help with
creation of digital course packs.
Research libraries will be in the OER services. Research libraries will be encouraging the use of open
materials, support the access to open materials for both faculty and students, and encourage production
of open textbooks and materials. Research libraries will help us find and reuse OERs, as well as make our
OERs discover-able.
Research libraries will continue to drive the adoption of affordable course material, but will do it
in concert with other campus stakeholders such as administration, faculty, university presses, and
students. They will support the creation of new OER by acting as a consultant, publisher, and promoter.
Research libraries will make OER resources findable in local catalogs will work on system “dumps” of
publicly available material. Librarians have domain knowledge and data collection expertise.
Research libraries, especially those that oversee a university press, should take a leadership role in
identifying where gaps exist in the existing open textbook literature to strategically develop and
produce open textbooks—and develop publishing platforms that simplify the process for faculty at
all institutions to adapt their learning content for openness. These libraries should also create global
partnerships to ensure that libraries and partner organizations are working together to create textbook
affordability. In general, create a culture of openness in higher education.
Same as above. [I’d like to see libraries play a more active role in providing alternative publishing
options for faculty and groups of faculty who become aware of cost-related student textbook problems.]
See above. [Much expanded from where we are now.]
See above. [We envision our role being that of a change agent.] Applies to affordable and OER. We focus
on what best meets the faculty needs rather than one particular content type. OER may not be the
answer for everyone.
Support for adoption, adaptation, and creation through outreach and information provision, project
funding, identifying useful resources, tech support for projects.
Support national OER efforts. It’s preferable to have OER published in national/disciplinary
repositories instead of each academic library maintaining their own repositories.
Supporting role: copyright and repository expertise
The libraries can collect and catalog teaching, learning, and research resources that are free to use,
share, and adapt. The libraries can help faculty identify free or low-cost alternatives to expensive
textbooks. Libraries can advise faculty about copyright and intellectual property issues.
The role of research libraries in OER services in the future is primarily two-fold: (1) serving as a
repository and/or publishing/disseminating OER and (2) outreach, communication, and marketing to
encourage discovery, access, and integration of OER into teaching and learning activities.
There are areas on campus that are investigating open educational resources, but it is too preliminary
for a cohesive plan.
This survey will start some discussions.
To collaborate with other academic units to encourage the adoption of OER.
We can see this and other research libraries becoming a central repository of expertise and server space
(our institutional repository) for locally developed OER materials and we have this as part of the pilot
program described earlier.
