It’s Up to the Librarians: Establishing A Statewide OER Initiative

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https://doi.org/10.5195/palrap.2017.166

Abstract

Academic librarians increasingly adopt roles as campus leaders to promote the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other strategies to encourage making textbook affordability for students an institutional priority. When it comes to a statewide strategy to support academic library efforts for textbook affordability, Pennsylvania is lagging more progressive states such as Oregon, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia and Louisiana. This article makes a case for and lays out a strategy by which Pennsylvania’s academic librarians can develop a statewide initiative to tackle the challenge of textbook affordability together in order to achieve substantial progress.

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Steven J Bell, Temple University

Steve J. Bell is the Associate University Librarians for Research and Instructional Services at Temple University Libraries

Joseph A Salem, Jr., penn state university

Associate Dean for Learning, Undergraduate Services, and Commonwealth Campus Libraries
at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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2017-10-31

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