Affordable Course Materials: Electronic Textbooks and Open Educational Resources

Diaz, Chris (ed.) Affordable Course Materials: Electronic Textbooks and Open Educational Resources. An ALCTS Monograph. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1580-6 

Description

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has gathered its members’ expertise to describe affordable text initiatives that promise to improve student learning and student retention. This  book demonstrates how librarians can use their collection, licensing, and faculty outreach know-how to help students and their instructors address skyrocketing textbook prices.

Table of Contents

Introduction    Collecting the Curriculum

Chapter One    One Size Fits None: The UCLA Library’s Customized Approach to Course Materials
by Sharon E. Farb and Dawn Setzler

Chapter Two    Curriculum-Driven Acquisitions: The University of Arizona Libraries’ Evolving Role in Campus Materials Support
by Jim Martin and Niamh Wallace

Chapter Three    Thinking Outside the Pages: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Atkins Library E-Textbook Program
by Elizabeth Siler

Chapter Four    The Bottom Line: DDA, E-Textbooks, and Student Savings at Louisiana State University Libraries
by Alice Daugherty and Emily Frank

Chapter Five    Textbooks and Course Adoption Materials at New York University Shanghai
by Michael Hughes

Chapter Six    The North Carolina State University Libraries’ Alt-Textbook Project: Open Education That Opens a Door to the Library
by Kristine Alpi, William Cross, Greg Raschke, and Madison Sullivan

Chapter Seven    Connecting Library Textbook Programs to Campus Initiatives
by Josh Cromwell

Chapter Eight    Disrupting the Model: Fostering Cultural Change through Academic Partnerships
by Aimee deNoyelles, John Raible, Penny Beile, and Sarah Norris

Chapter Nine    Textbook and OER Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Case Study at the University of Florida
by April Hines, Stacey Ewing, Colleen Seale, and Melissa Clapp

The Collection's at the Core

Mardis, M. A. (2014). The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 978-1-61069-504-6

Publisher's Description
Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections.

The book comprises three sections: an overview of policy initiatives; a thorough exploration of STEM education policy, digital materials, and collection considerations; and detailed explanations of strategies for collection development and promotion. You'll learn how to perform a collection analysis to determine the age and extent of your STEM collections and make priorities for enriching them with appropriate digital multimedia resources as well as how to classify resources using Dewey and Sears and with regard to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Features

• Authored by a former school administrator and school librarian with 15 years' experience working on K–12 STEM initiatives

• Enables school librarians to understand the nature and importance of STEM as well as the value of including high-quality, free STEM digital multimedia in library collections

• Presents effective strategies for promoting collections to ultimate beneficiaries including learners, educators, parents, community members, and, importantly, other school librarians

• Gives school librarians specific criteria and sources with which to build STEM collections that meet national standards for science, health, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to select resources that cross curriculum areas

Table of Contents 
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: STEM Is Important to Librarians
Chapter 3: The Common Standards Movement Is Important for School Librarians
Chapter 4: Curation Part 1: Selecting and Describing STEM Digital Resources
Chapter 5: Curation Part 2: Managing and Promoting Your STEM OER Collection
Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusions: An Open Letter to School Librarians and Science Educators
Appendix A: Starting Points for Locating Vetted K-12 STEM OER
Appendix B: K-12 STEM OER Collections with Downloadable Records Available through NSDL
Appendix C: K-12 STEM OER Video Collections
Index