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Hands Across The University: Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The University of Massachusetts – Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, has long been a leader in exploring new models of scholarly communication with a particular emphasis on partnering with faculty. The library has been key in the Open Education Initiative at the university, working closely with the Office of the Provost. This presentation will describe the services developed by the library, particularly through its institutional repository – ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst – and how these services have facilitated new partnerships and relationships with faculty and other stakeholders across the university. It will provide practical advice on the …

Libraries Leading The Way On The Textbook Problem, Marilyn S. Billings, Charlotte Roh, William M. Cross, Brendon O'Connell

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.

Spreading The Word, Building A Community: Vision For A National Oer Movement, Nicole Allen, Steven J. Bell, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Three experts in the use of open education resources as alternatives to high-cost textbooks describe their work and argue for the development of a national OER movement in higher education.

Open Education Resources At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Charlotte Roh

Open Access Week

No abstract provided.

Preparing Climate Leaders: One Syllabus At A Time, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Poster presentation at the 2014 Presidential Summit on Climate Leadership which highlighted the Sustainability Curriculum Initiative, a library-funded faculty mini-grant program that provides support for teaching sustainability courses across a wide range of disciplines. The poster illustrated the partnership between faculty members and subject specialist librarians. Also available was the Library’s Sustainability Research Guide, curriculum-building material which integrate library resources, photographs, and a White Paper outlining the history of the program. The Summit, held in Boston October 1-2, 2014 and hosted by Second Nature, was designed by Presidents for Presidents and Sustainability Staff in higher education. The focus of the …

Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Spring/Summer 2014 (No. 47), Jay Schafer

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

In this edition of the News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries, you will notice an unusually large number of new staff and staff promotions. Over the past year, the Libraries have had an accelerated rate of retirements. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for the organization. It is always challenging to lose staff that have been with us for many years. Their institutional memory and connection to the campus community is priceless and something that cannot easily be replaced.

UMass Amherst Libraries and all research libraries (as I have mentioned so many times before) are …

Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: A Case Study Of The Umass Amherst Open Education Initiative, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The high cost and lack of availability of commercial print textbooks is a major concern to both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost's Office and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst launched the Open Education Initiative in the Spring of 2011, having saved over $1 million to date. This model has an implementation strategy that is easy for others to adopt.

Librarian Engagement In Oer Adoption Leadership And Roles, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation provides an overview of the potential for library leadership of open education resources initiatives.

Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: A Case Study Of The Umass Amherst Open Education Initiative, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The high cost and lack of availability of commercial print textbooks is a major concern for both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost’s Office and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst launched the Open Education Initiative (OEI) in the Spring of 2011, having saved over $1 million to date. This presentation provides a case study of the UMA experience. This model has an implementation strategy that is easy for others to adopt.

Participatory Design Ethnography In The Learning Commons: Initial Research Findings, Krista Harper

Krista M. Harper

Presentation on initial findings from research at the UMass Amherst Learning Commons using participatory design ethnography and Photovoice. In this Spring 2014 project, I guided students through a semester-length research study of students' perspectives on and practices in the library.

Are Medical Students Comfortable Managing Research Data?, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen

Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen

Objectives: The Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School seeks to evaluate medical students’ awareness of and comfort with data handling and data management concepts. This study will help to triangulate populations and topics for integration of data management curriculum modules.Background: A medical student’s work life is unique due to the demands of their curriculum. In addition, expectations for the stewardship of research data require that students manage their data appropriately. However, data literacy is not a formal component in most undergraduate and graduate student curricula. Libraries have filled this gap by creating educational resources and training …

Libraries And Faculty Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Since the 1990s serials crisis brought a struggle for university libraries to keep up with the escalating cost increases to maintain collections of scholarly materials, libraries have been exploring new models of scholarly communication. This presentation will discuss open access journals as one of these new models and examine trends in open access mandates, data management plans for scholarly research and new alternative metrics.

Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: A Case Study Of The Umass Amherst Open Education Initiative, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that either reside in the public domain or carry a license that permits their free use, sharing and adaptation by all users. From textbooks to course materials, videos to software, journals to digital collections, the creation and sharing of open materials can reduce the cost of textbooks, expand access to knowledge, and support student success. This webcast features Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, who provides an overview of the Open Education Initiative project, discusses the impact achieved for students, and provides practical …

Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: A Case Study Of The Umass Amherst Open Education Initiative, Jay Schafer, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The high cost and lack of availability of commercial print textbooks is a major concern to both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost's Office and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst launched the Open Education Initiative in the Spring of 2011, having saved over $750,000 to date. This model has an implementation strategy that is easy for others to adopt.

Nelig Meeting - February 7, 2014, New England Library Instruction Group

New England Library Instruction Group

NELIG quarterly meeting.

University Libraries Annual Report 2014, Jay Schafer

University Libraries Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Fall/Winter 2014 (No. 48), Jay Schafer

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

The Libraries recently celebrated the seventh annual Open Access Week. This global event is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of open access – the free, immediate, online access to the peer-reviewed results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results.

This year Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was the Library’s keynote speaker. Author of the book, Open Access, published by MIT Press in 2012 and now available openly online, Dr. Suber …

E-Resource Acquisitions In Academic Library Consortia, Christine N. Turner

Christine Turner

Scholarly publishing is the information marketplace in which academic libraries function, and major shifts in traditional publishing and pricing models are in process. Library consortia have long been viewed as a means of increasing purchasing power and reducing costs. In late 2010, the Five College Libraries (FCL) hired R2 Consulting, LLC to investigate and make recommendations regarding how the Libraries cooperate more closely on the acquisition, management, and delivery of electronic resources. This study examines and evaluates how other academic library consortia are licensing and acquiring electronic books, databases, journals and streaming media. The organizations, activities, processes, history and trends …

Academic Librarians And The Sustainability Curriculum: Building Alliances To Support A Paradigm Shift, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Sustainability is a fast evolving movement in higher education demonstrated by a proliferation of academic programs and co-curricular initiative and projects. After a review of sustainability-related LibGuides (online resource guides) created by academic librarians, a survey was administered to their developers during the spring of 2011 and posted on library listservs. Librarians returned 112 survey responses which reflected active roles in the paradigm shift toward sustainability through the forging of partnerships across campus and development of teaching resources and events. Telephone interviews conducted with 24 of the respondents showed librarians’ wide-ranging personal and professional interest in sustainability, and their initiatives …

Academic Librarians And The Sustainability Curriculum: Building Alliances To Support A Paradigm Shift, Madeleine Charney

University Libraries Publication Series

Sustainability is a fast evolving movement in higher education demonstrated by a proliferation of academic programs and co-curricular initiative and projects. After a review of sustainability-related LibGuides (online resource guides) created by academic librarians, a survey was administered to their developers during the spring of 2011 and posted on library listservs. Librarians returned 112 survey responses which reflected active roles in the paradigm shift toward sustainability through the forging of partnerships across campus and development of teaching resources and events. Telephone interviews conducted with 24 of the respondents showed librarians’ wide-ranging personal and professional interest in sustainability, and their initiatives …

E-Resource Acquisitions In Academic Library Consortia, Christine Turner

University Libraries Publication Series

Scholarly publishing is the information marketplace in which academic libraries function, and major shifts in traditional publishing and pricing models are in process. Library consortia have long been viewed as a means of increasing purchasing power and reducing costs. In late 2010, the Five College Libraries (FCL) hired R2 Consulting, LLC to investigate and make recommendations regarding how the Libraries cooperate more closely on the acquisition, management, and delivery of electronic resources. This study examines and evaluates how other academic library consortia are licensing and acquiring electronic books, databases, journals and streaming media. The organizations, activities, processes, history and trends …