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First Aid For Student Cost: Helping Nursing Faculty Move Away From Textbook Purchase Requirements, Lea A. Leininger
First Aid For Student Cost: Helping Nursing Faculty Move Away From Textbook Purchase Requirements, Lea A. Leininger
Charleston Library Conference
There is growing interest in the use of open educational resources to reduce student cost. Many repositories provide e-resources that can be modified and adopted by instructors, yet there are a number of barriers to adoption. In 2017 several nursing instructors at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received mini-grants to redesign a course to reduce textbook purchase requirements. This paper describes liaison librarian support for the course redesigns.
How Difficult Can It Be? Creating An Integrated Network Among Library Stakeholders To Promote Electronic Access, Denise M. Branch, Anne-Marie H. Viola, Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth, Benjamin C. Johnson
How Difficult Can It Be? Creating An Integrated Network Among Library Stakeholders To Promote Electronic Access, Denise M. Branch, Anne-Marie H. Viola, Jamie Gieseck-Ashworth, Benjamin C. Johnson
Charleston Library Conference
Tracking electronic access is a major challenge for libraries that cannot be ignored. Vast quantities of electronic resources continue to be acquired, and libraries continue to seek a way to keep up with the evolving electronic resource ecosystem.
Libraries are immersed in monitoring electronic resources for access performance, features, functionality, completeness of content, and usage. Publishers, providers, and vendors are immersed in their innovative business models. Users are immersed in their research needs. With these immersion silos, there is a lack of communication between stakeholders that creates an unsustainable ecosystem.
Currently, stakeholders are creating piecemeal patches that partially address access …
Technology Lending: Just Like Any Other Collection, Sort Of, Bobby L. Hollandsworth
Technology Lending: Just Like Any Other Collection, Sort Of, Bobby L. Hollandsworth
Charleston Library Conference
Technology lending or equipment lending has long been a staple of academic libraries. Think back a few years ago and you’ll probably remember calculators, tape recorders, point and shoot cameras, and projectors being loaned out at your library. Past was certainly prologue in this collection as Clemson University Libraries made a deliberate decision to upgrade the technology being loaned out in the spring of 2012 to keep up with the changing needs of students, faculty, and staff. Some of the initial upgraded items included DSLR cameras, camera lenses, iPads, tripods, microphones, and digital voice recorders. Over the past five and …