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Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts: Building Support For Oer From Existing Services On Campus, Matt Ruen Dec 2015

Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts: Building Support For Oer From Existing Services On Campus, Matt Ruen

Matt Ruen

At Grand Valley State University, the Libraries and several campus partners--including campus IT and offices that support faculty research and effective teaching--have come together to provide support for the creation and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) on our campus.  But rather than developing brand new programs or asking for additional resources right at the start, we realized that each of our units already offers services that could support faculty creating and using OER.  Through our OER Initiative, we’ve begun coordinating our efforts to promote these services and build relationships with each other and with faculty allies interested in doing …

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What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger Mar 2015

What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Panel title Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives from a Range of Academic Libraries Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.

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A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger Mar 2015

A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Panel title: Staffing a Library Publishing Program: The Whos, Hows, and Whens Panel abstract: This session aims to address one of the most frequently raised concerns about library-led publishing: how to plan for staffing this new endeavor? The panel will discuss two inflection points in staff planning for library publishing: what it takes to get started (for a library that is just beginning to think about publishing), and what it takes to grow (for a library that has a few years of experience and wants to do more). It will also shed light on one of the least understood, and …

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