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Affordability Of Course Materials In Higher Education: Exploring An Equity Issue, Grace Allbaugh, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The ever-increasing cost of textbooks is making it more challenging for college students to afford necessary class resources. While all students pursuing a college degree are affected by textbook costs, the impact is greatest on students from low-income families. Milner Library staff, who work to provide affordable academic resources and support learning on campus through many collaborations, are in a unique position to assist in addressing this problem.

Representatives from Milner Library will discuss the ways in which textbook affordability became a problem and how it impacts different groups on ISU’s campus; steps the library is taking to increase access …

Speak Up Through Video: Campus Collaboration For Effective Flipped Learning, Susan Franzen, Julie Derden

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Let’s face it, sometimes librarians repeat the same content over and over. Or we have to present information that students find uninteresting and difficult to understand. To make repetitive, challenging library information engaging and entertaining, two librarians collaborated with their campus television production team to create videos to flip library instruction for education and nursing majors. After sharing basic information with a team of creative production interns and their faculty advisor, both librarians were thrilled with the inventive, instructive videos produced. One video featured a game show of data and statistics for a public health nursing course. The second used …

Stepping Into The Library For The First Time, Chris Worland

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Library tours helps students learn about the library as a place in order to feel more comfortable utilizing library services and the building. A self-guided video tour of the library helps to accomplish that goal while also allowing instructors to assign it outside of the classroom. The poster introduces the technology and process involved in creating the iTour, the connection to and inclusion of the tour with first-year courses, as well as overall engagement with the tour according to broad level statistics.