Getting E-Books into Courses: How Libraries Can Partner with Faculty to Ease the Textbook Affordability Crisis

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Shifting Priorities: A Look at a Course Adopted Text (CATs) e-Book Program and How Its Success Realigned One Library’s e-Book Collection Priorities

“…Examples of "upstream" programs, like Ohio State's, fill the literature, and they too take on various shapes and sizes. Louisiana State University's program has been called "curriculum driven e-book acquisitions'' (Levine-Clark 2019) and it provides a custom-built web page and database to make Shifting priorities 6 the discovery of library supplied CATs easier for students and curriculum selection easier for faculty (Comeaux, Kroes, and Pavy 2019). The University of South Florida offers a similar program that solicits faculty and students requests to drive CATs e-book acquisitions and provides a custom built web portal for easy discovery of already licensed e-books and records for those that could be purchased (Bozcar and Pascual 2017).…”

Desperately seeking funding: library guides to student funding

“…They are frequently key drivers of campus initiatives to reduce or mitigate the impact of increasing course material costs (Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019). These efforts include course reserve systems and electronic textbook purchasing programs that allow students to access learning materials without buying or renting them (Comeaux et al , 2019; Salem, 2017; Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019). Academic libraries also produce resources that encourage and support faculty in discovering and adopting library-owned or openly licensed materials as course texts (Comeaux et al , 2019; Okamoto, 2013; Salem, 2017; Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019).…”

“…These efforts include course reserve systems and electronic textbook purchasing programs that allow students to access learning materials without buying or renting them (Comeaux et al , 2019; Salem, 2017; Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019). Academic libraries also produce resources that encourage and support faculty in discovering and adopting library-owned or openly licensed materials as course texts (Comeaux et al , 2019; Okamoto, 2013; Salem, 2017; Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019). Finally, libraries provide guidance to faculty authoring open education resources and even create their own open materials (Okamoto, 2013; Todorinova and Wilkinson, 2019).…”

Disponibilidad de los libros electrónicos de la bibliografía recomendada en bibliotecas universitarias. El Grado en Información y Documentación online de la Universidad de León

“…Muchos estudios coinciden en el desconocimiento por parte de los alumnos de las colecciones de libros electrónicos y en la necesidad de promocionarlas y formar a los usuarios en la lectura digital para que aumente su uso (Comeaux;Li;Pavy, 2018;Blummer;Kenton, 2020;Mastrobattista;Merchán-Sánchez-Jara, 2022). Como forma de promoción, las recomendaciones han insistido en incluir los registros en el OPAC o herramienta de descubrimiento para incrementar su utilización (Croft;Davis, 2010), así como en añadir enlaces en la bibliografía recomendada de las guías docentes, siempre que estén disponibles.…”