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Reminder: Registration Open for Free IACRL Webinar “Libraries Are Open for Learning: Using OER to Support Students and Faculty” (Tues., Jan. 28, 1:00-2:00 PM)

by Eric Edwards Posted: Tuesday, 1/14/2020

(via Michelle Nielsen Ott, IACRL President)

Free IACRL Webinar
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 PM

Libraries Are Open for Learning: Using OER to Support Students and Faculty

Open Educational resources (OER) have quickly become an answer to addressing higher education affordability, increasing student completer success raters and reducing equating gaps, and increasing pedagogical innovations. As libraries support the very essence of “open”, librarians and library staff are primed to lead OER efforts at colleges and universities. After setting baselines, including definitions and efficacy of OER, this webinar will discuss some OER and Open program opportunities your library can select to implement and support, no matter where you’re at in the OER adoption process. We encourage you to bring your ideas for OER programs that others can adapt, and your questions and concerns.

Register here. Please direct any questions to Michelle Nielsen Ott, 2019-2020 IACRL President, at mnielsenott@methodistcol.edu.

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Registration Open for Free IACRL Webinar “Libraries Are Open for Learning: Using OER to Support Students and Faculty” (Tues., Jan. 28, 1:00-2:00 PM)

by Eric Edwards Posted: Monday, 12/30/2019

(via Michelle Nielsen Ott, IACRL President)

Free IACRL Webinar

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.


Libraries Are Open for Learning: Using OER to Support Students and Faculty

Open Educational resources (OER) have quickly become an answer to addressing higher education affordability, increasing student completer success raters and reducing equating gaps, and increasing pedagogical innovations. As libraries support the very essence of ‘open,’ librarians and library staff are primed to lead OER efforts at colleges and universities. After setting baselines, including definitions and efficacy of OER, this webinar will discuss some OER and Open program opportunities your library can select to implement and support, no matter where you’re at in the OER adoption process. We encourage you to bring your ideas for OER programs that others can adapt, and your questions and concerns.

Register Here: https://www.ila.org/events/iacrl-webinar. Please direct any questions to Michelle Nielsen Ott, 2019-2020 IACRL President, atmnielsenott@methodistcol.edu.

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Call for Proposals: Annual Meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (Friday, May 8, 2020, in San Francisco) — Deadline Friday, January 3

by Eric Edwards Posted: Sunday, 12/1/2019

(via Swetta Abeyta, Saint Mary’s College)

We are pleased to announce that the next Annual Meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) will take place in San Francisco on Friday, May 8, 2020.

Our 83rd annual meeting theme is “Open in Technical Services”

For 2020, we will have two options for presenting. Full presentations are usually 20-30 minutes with additional participation in a panel discussion. Or participants can do a 5 minute lightning round talk on a project or idea that fits the theme.

At this event, we expect to have a broad representation of types of libraries (public, academic, special) and a diverse representation of roles within and around technical services.  This half-day event will be held in Koret Auditorium at San Francisco Public Library, with optional afternoon tours of related interest nearby.

Possible topics related to the theme include:

  • How Open Access resources are organized and maintained in your library system.
  • Ebook package management
  • Managing vendor relationships in the digital landscape
  • Digital repository management
  • Accessing, cataloging and maintaining free and open resources on the web
  • Maximizing library resources on a tightening budget
  • Textbook management and Open Educational Resources

Please submit your proposal to the NCTPG steering committee with the subject “2020 Call for Presentations” at nctpg1@gmail.com.

Deadline for submission: Friday, January 3, 2020.

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Reminder: Early-Bird Registration for The Library’s Role in Supporting Open Educational Resources Online Conference (Dec. 4) Ends Wed., Nov. 20

by Eric Edwards Posted: Tuesday, 11/19/2019

(via Jodie Borgerding, Amigos Library Services)

Join Amigos Library Services for The Library’s Role in Supporting Open Educational Resources Online Conference.

Have you noticed the cost of textbooks and other educational materials exponentially increasing? Many institutions of higher education and PK-12 schools are experiencing the impact of this trend and are adopting open educational resources (OER) as alternatives for their students. Thus, libraries are starting to see OER as part of a trickle-down effect. Join us as we explore the roles libraries of all types play in supporting OER. Throughout the day, a variety of peers and experts will present on a diverse range of OER topics. Register now for an action-packed day of information and knowledge and gain access to all presentations post-conference for later viewing.

13 Sessions, including:

  • Open Educational Resources: Build a Lesson Using Free Government Resources
  • Holistic OER: Identifying the Gaps
  • Working with Student Advocacy Groups to Raise Awareness of OER
  • Perfecting the Art of the Reference Interview in OER Support Roles

Registration required

  • Registration closes on Sunday, December 1
  • Early bird ends Wednesday, November 20 

Registration Fees

Amigos Member – FREE

Early-bird Non-Member – Individual – $129 | Group – $249

Library School Student – $45

To view the entire schedule, session descriptions, and to register, visit https://www.amigos.org/OER.

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Registration Open for Dec. 4 Amigos Library Services Online Conference: The Library’s Role in Supporting Open Educational Resources

by Eric Edwards Posted: Sunday, 10/27/2019

(via Jodie Borgerding, Amigos Library Services)

As the cost of textbooks and other educational materials are exponentially increasing, many institutions of higher education and PK-12 schools are adopting open educational resources (OER) as alternatives for their students. Libraries are starting to see OER as part of a trickle-down effect. More and more librarians are now being tasked with supporting faculty, students, and other members of their communities with the adoption of OER.

Join us on December 4, 2019 for an Amigos Library Services online conference, The Library’s Role in Supporting Open Educational Resources, where we will explore the roles libraries of all types play in supporting open educational resources. Regina Gong, the Open Educational Resources (OER) & Student Success Librarian at Michigan State University, will kick off the conference at 10 am Central with her opening keynote, Paving the Way Towards Students Success: Librarians as Leaders and Partners in OER Initiatives. This keynote presentation will highlight the work done by librarians in advancing awareness of and advocacy for open education. How can librarians provide meaningful support and be an integral partner to the different stakeholders on campus to encourage and sustain OER adoptions? More importantly, she will share how we as a community can ensure that our work is supported, valued, and celebrated. Throughout the rest of the day learn about how libraries are supporting OER in specific subject areas, developing partnerships with faculty and students, using OER in the classroom, cataloging OER materials, and much more.

To view the schedule and to register, please visit: https://www.amigos.org/OER.

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Slides From 2019 HSLI Conference Keynote Address Available

by Eric Edwards Posted: Monday, 10/21/2019

The slides from Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe’s keynote address, “From One Big Deal to Another? Libraries in an Open Access Age”, are available here. The talk covered what one can consider an open access age, whether or not libraries benefit from “Big Deal” agreements with publishers, and what alternatives libraries might have in the future.

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Call for Proposals: International Journal of Open Educational Resources Special Issue on OER and Libraries (Deadline July 3)

by Eric Edwards Posted: Sunday, 6/30/2019

(via Kristina Clement, University of Wyoming)

The International Journal of Open Educational Resources (IJOER) will be hosting a fall/winter special issue on Open Education Resources & Libraries. This issue will be hosted by featured guest editors Samantha Cook and Kristina Clement of the University of Wyoming Libraries. This special issue of the International Journal of Open Educational Resources (IJOER) will focus on librarians, libraries, and Open Educational Resources. Papers may draw from any of the following topics, though authors are encouraged to elaborate on these ideas. This list is meant to be broad, general, and to get your creative juices flowing! If you have another topic of interest that you would like to write about that is not listed here, please send the editors a brief message with your thoughts and ideas. 

Topics of Interest

OER Collaborations between Librarians and Faculty

Incorporating Open practices and Open Educational Resources in library instruction

OER grant programs and/or partnerships

Open Educational Processes

OER Platforms

Copyright and OER

Assessment of OER and/or OER Grant programs

OER and accessibility

Library support for OER

OER and open pedagogy

OER and institutional repositories

OER and digital scholarship/digital humanities

OER best practices

OER and collection development

Demonstrating the value of OER

Submitting a Paper Proposal

Paper proposals should be submitted via google form

 with all author information, an abstract of no more than 500 words describing your proposed article, and up to five keywords.

Paper proposals are accepted on a rolling basis until July 3, 2019. Accepted paper proposals will be invited to submit full articles for peer review.

 

Full link to the paper proposal submission form: https://forms.gle/SioYfKMzU8USUoPe7

 

Publication Schedule

Paper Proposal due by July 3rd

Full Papers due by August 7th

Peer Review comments returned by September 16th

Final revised papers due October 25th

 

Journal Information

The aim of The International Journal of Open Educational Resources (IJOER) is to provide a venue for the publication of quality academic research with an emphasis on representing Open Educational Resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and policy. The International Journal of Open Educational Resources is a bi-annual, open access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic publication sponsored by theAmerican Public University System (APUS) and the Policy Studies Organization.

 

Featured Guest Editors

Samantha Cook, Instructional Design Librarian, scook13@uwyo.edu

Kristina Clement, Student Success Librarian, kclemen8@uwyo.edu

University of Wyoming Libraries

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Registration Open for Library Juice Academy Online Course “Introduction to Scholarly Communications” Lasting June 3-28

by Eric Edwards Posted: Sunday, 6/2/2019

(via Rory Litwin, Library Juice Academy)

Introduction to Scholarly Communications

Instructor: Carli Spina
Dates: June 3rd through 28th, 2019
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/152-scholarly-communications.php

The scholarly publishing environment continues to evolve, but one aspect that has not changed is the central role that librarians play in this arena. Faculty are looking to the library for advice on how to navigate the increasingly complicated process of publications and for guidance on the impact copyright has on both their own publications and the materials that they use in their classes. Once librarians have established their expertise in these areas, they not only have an opportunity to offer much needed services to their patrons but also to serve as true advocates on campus in conversations about Open Access, tenure procedures, and course design.

In this course, participants will gain an understanding of the scholarly communications landscape and will learn the basics on academic publishing issues, copyright, Open Access, and institutional repositories. By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to:
– advise colleagues and patrons on scholarly communications issues,
– determine whether their institution should have an institutional repository and, if so, how it should be administered
– navigate common copyright issues that occur in libraries and academic institutions
– advocate for change at their institutions
– keep up-to-date in this fast changing area of librarianship

Carli Spina is an academic librarian. Previously, she was the Head Librarian, Assessment and Outreach at the Boston College Libraries. Carli holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, an MLIS from Simmons GSLIS, and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has extensive experience working on user experience, web design, and technology projects as well as serving as a coordinator for services to patrons with disabilities. She is a member of LITA’s Bylaws and Organization Committee. She was also the inaugural chair of LITA’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the leader of the ASCLA Library Services to People with Visual or Physical Disabilities that Prevent Them from Reading Standard Print Interest Group. She teaches classes and workshops for librarians, academic staff, and students on a range of topics, including accessibility, user experience, and web design.

Twitter: @carlispina
Website: http://carlispina.com/

You can register for any of our courses through the first week of instruction (as long as the course is not full). The “Register” button on the website goes to our credit card payment gateway, which may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. (Be sure to use the appropriate billing address). If your institution wants us to send a billing statement or wants to pay using a purchase order, please contact us by email to make arrangements:inquiries@libraryjuiceacademy.com

For a list of all of the courses being offered next month, please go to:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/courses.php

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UIUC iSchool’s Dr. Emily Knox and ILA’s Cyndi Robinson Among Newly-Elected Freedom to Read Foundation Board Members

by Eric Edwards Posted: Monday, 5/27/2019

(via the American Library Association)

Six people were elected to two-year terms on the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Board of Trustees in the annual FTRF election held this past April. Current FTRF Vice President Emily Knox and Executive Committee member Robert Holley were both re-elected to the board. Peter Coyl, Sara Dallas, Eldon Ray James and Cyndi Robinson were newly elected. The candidates will join the FTRF Board of Trustees following the June Freedom to Read Foundation meeting in Washington, DC. Learn more about the candidates:

http://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/content/Knox%20White%20Background.jpgEmily Knox is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her book, “Book Banning in 21st Century America” (Rowman & Littlefield) is the first monograph in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars’ Series. She also recently edited Trigger Warnings: History, Theory Context (Rowman & Littlefield) and co-edited Foundations of Information Ethics (ALA). Her articles have been published in the Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research and the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy.

Knox serves on the boards of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Beta Phi Mu, the Freedom to Read Foundation and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Her research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy and the intersection of print culture and reading practices.She is also a member of the Mapping Information Access research team. Knox received her Ph.D. from the doctoral program at the Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. Her master’s in library and information science is from the iSchool at Illinois. She also holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Smith College and an A.M. in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School.

http://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/content/Robinson%20White%20Background.jpgCyndi Robinson is the deputy director of the Illinois Library Association (ILA), where she works with members throughout the state to support the values of intellectual freedom. She has served as chair and treasurer of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table and currently serves on the ALA Committee on Advocacy.

Prior to joining the ILA staff, she served as the assistant director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom.

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Reminder: CARLI Webinar “Building an OER Workshop For Your Campus” at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, May 22

by Eric Edwards Posted: Wednesday, 5/22/2019

(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago, on behalf of CARLI)

Reminder:

Webinar: Building an OER Workshop For Your Campus

Day/Time: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 – 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Covering:

  • Why should we care about the cost of textbooks?
  • Finding an audience on your campus.
  • What OER is and what it isn’t including copyright & creative commons.
  • OER Resources:
    • Open Textbook Library
    • Other
  • The ask.
  • CARLI support for librarians:
    • Website
    • OTN resources including slide deck
    • How faculty review OTL textbooks
  • Q & A

How to Connect:

The webinar starts promptly at 10:00am.  Please connect: http://webjunctionillinois.adobeconnect.com/oer-tf/ at least five minutes prior to the webinar start.

This webinar will be recorded and posted to the CARLI website.

  • Audio for the webinar will be via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) only.
  • All attendees will be able to ask questions of the presenters via a chat function within the software.
  • The most important part of the audio set up wizard is to ensure you can hear the audio.
  • Attendee microphones will not be used for this webinar.
  • The CARLI Office has created a webpage containing information on how to connect to CARLI webinars: Participating in a CARLI Webinar with Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro
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