46 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Libraries will bring together interested parties, help identify best practices, provide structure, host
content, and share knowledge of distribution channels.
Libraries will continue their role in providing access to affordable licensed content, but will also
become increasingly active as partners in creating low-cost course content for students.
More effectively leveraging research libraries’ vast collections and extensive expertise for instructional
purposes is where research libraries can provide the utmost value to universities’ efforts to adopt
affordable and/or open course content. There are many departments on a given campus that could
lead an effort focused exclusively on open content. But librarians and library staff, with their deep
knowledge of their holdings, how to find materials, copyright issues, and making materials accessible,
provide a much richer level of service.
Much expanded from where we are now, but need buy-in from faculty and university admin to make
it work since the curriculum decisions are so tied to what the teaching faculty does. Everyone agrees
saving students $$is a good idea, but when the rubber hits the road it will take time and effort to make
the changes necessary.
Partner with faculty, the bookstore, and others to select and make content available, perhaps through
our institutional repository. Also play an educational role in helping campus community understand
their options. We have already been purchasing multiple-simultaneous user e-books, some of which are
used as textbooks these are therefore affordable for the students. We will continue this practice.
Partnering with other campus units, providing examples of how course content can be provided using
alternate mechanisms besides student-purchased materials, and hosting resources.
Potentially a hub/clearinghouse, or tied more closely to educational, instructional, and information
literacy design initiatives.
Providing suitable e-resources, continuing to provide textbook reserves. Helping faculty identify and
link to ACC.
Providing technical platforms, applications, and knowledgeable staff to support the production of
ACCs, as well as search mechanisms for finding developed content. We already administer the campus
learning management system and the open access repository. Making the link between the two as it
relates to ACC/OER more explicit is a goal.
Purchasing textbooks for library reserve. Using library technical services staff to negotiate, license and
do group purchasing of textbooks. Supporting faculty with applications like courseware plugins that
allow them to assign and track use of library-licensed e-content that is already available.
Research libraries can help faculty find alternative, high-quality, low-cost materials. Maybe provide
grants. Research libraries can provide customized course pages linking students to content (print
and electronic).
Research libraries have been great innovators and one of the major driving forces behind the affordable
course content movement. I think that beyond OER (expanded below), we will need to collect and
promote this course content in our collections and discovery services.
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.
Role of libraries: Assist faculty who wish to publish or adopt open content in doing so. This may
mean publishing with us online/print-on-demand or referring them to other disciplinary repository
sites. It could also mean helping faculty to find appropriate open content for their courses. Continue
current efforts in producing course packs that reduce the costs to the students by ensuring that library
resources are appropriately leveraged and that copyright charges aren’t paid twice.
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