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Librarians and OER:What’s on offer?
Todd M. Mundle, University LibrarianCaroline Daniels, Systems, Web & Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Splitting the hour in two:
1. “Exercising New Opportunities – Embracing the role of Librarians and Open Textbooks”
2. “Leveraging Tradition – A practical look at the Tradition of Accessibility and Functionality with Open Textbooks”
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Exercising existing roles
Selection – finding, evaluating and selecting open resources as is done for cost resources
Description – metadata and resource description
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Varying existing roles
Storage and managementInstitutional repository options
Digital or information literacyHelping users find and evaluate OERs
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Exercising new opportunities
Scholarly PublishingLibrarians can help by contributing their own OERs to the commons; screening for, indexing, and archiving quality OERs; using OERs in their own teaching; and participating in discussions leading toward responsible intellectual property policies and useful standards. (ACRL Forum – 2009 ALA Midwinter Conference)
(Belliston, C. Jeffrey. “Open Educational Resources: Creating the instruction commons”. C&RL News, May 2009 Vol. 70, No. 5 http://tinyurl.com/yhoezak )
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Exercising new opportunitiesSupport and Author Education
Provide services to faculty and students to support OA Exercising author rightsCopyright and managing intellectual property rightsPromoting open licences
http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/• Author's rights• Repositories• Economics of publishing• Scholarly publishing• Data management• Take action
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Exercising new opportunities
AdvocacyWhy OA, OER and open textbooks are goodChampioning OA and OERPromoting open licencesWorking with faculty and student groups:
Making textbooks affordable – Student PIRGs projecthttp://bit.ly/S7q4q5
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Exercising New Opportunities
Leveraging Traditional Roles
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Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
5 Traditional Reasons to involve Librarians at the early stages:1. Addressing accessibility, retrieval, and functionality
issues at the onset of the project could prove invaluable 2. Knowledge of student ‘finding’ habits is high amongst
librarians3. Librarian relationships with access providers could prove
useful to project outcomes4. Masters at collaboration across sectors and institutions5. They are eager with a high attention to detail, and will
make strong partners!
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
MetadataHaving standardized Metadata helps libraries
organize the collections so that they are accessible from many different avenues:
• Through discovery layers• Through our library catalogues• Through our finding aids like subject guides• Through Google Scholar links personalized to
the student’s home LibraryMetadata also allows libraries to share the records for their own collections.
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Functionality“The textbook market is ripe for
technologically and economically disruptive models” Rasche, G., and Shanks, S. (2011). Chapter 7: Water on a hot skillet. Library Technology Reports, 47(8), 52-57.
• Platform neutrality vs. Device momentum• Chapter accessibility? Downloadable?
Mobile capabilities?• Leverage software for format flexibility –
i.e. Adobe Digital Editions
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Stability• Platform stability – who will
house the textbooks?• Permanent URL’s for each
record (part of Metadata)• Multimedia – standards?
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
CollaborationQ. How many librarians does it take to launch a
provincial chat service?A. 250+ and a consortia, and BCcampus• Librarians are born collaborators and rely heavily
on each other to extend their own services• Examples: Interlibrary Loans, AskAway, WriteAway,
CUFTS Open Access collections, LibGuides …
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Challenges• Scalability and stability – long term
plans for collection growth and new project partners
• Shift in mindset – traditionally bookstores have managed textbooks rather than libraries; being involved at the onset will allow librarians to take on a champion’s role.
Librarians and OER: What’s on offer?
Questions?
Todd M. [email protected]
Caroline [email protected]