Will Library E-Books Help Solve the Textbook Affordability Issue? Using Textbook Adoption Lists to Target Collection Development

Rokusek, Steve; Cooke, Rachel

doi:10.1080/02763877.2019.1584597

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“…Librarians are playing key roles in OER transformation grants. For example, to counter rising textbook prices, Rokusek and Cooke (2019) suggest that library e-books would provide a free, convenient option for students. Moreover, despite the limited availability of suitable e-books, the potential for increased adoption could be attained if librarians would target their advocacy of library e-books to professors who teach lowerlevel courses.…”

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confidence: 99%

No-Cost Learning Material: Perspectives From Industrial and Systems Engineering Students

2021

JHETP

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Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) is an initiative that began in 2014, which supported faculty when transforming their previously required textbooks to low-cost, no-cost textbooks. The goal was to help reduce the financial burden on students in their pursuit of a college education. In this study, the researchers developed no-cost textbooks for two undergraduate industrial and systems engineering courses. Both quantitative and qualitative measures are used to assess the effectiveness of the textbook transformation and students' experience of no-cost learning material in the Industrial and Systems Engineering program. The responses were overwhelmingly positive with respect to the no-cost textbooks in both courses.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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No-Cost Learning Material: Perspectives From Industrial and Systems Engineering Students

2021

JHETP

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“…The eBook initiative reduces the number of texts that students need to purchase and allows for more equitable access for distance learners to library materials by integrating the eBooks directly into the LMS. Although Library-driven eBook programs like this require bringing strategic teams together, they complement traditional OERs and have a direct impact on cost-savings for students and provide a simple process by which students can access their course materials (Raish et al , 2018; Rokusek and Cooke, 2019; Celik and Peck, 2015).…”

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Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation

Riehman-Murphy

Raish

Mross

et al. 2020

RSR

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Purpose This paper aims to describe a case study of the open and affordable educational resources (OAER) initiatives led by Penn State University Libraries (UL) and implemented at its many campuses which are designed to address the challenges students experience accessing and funding their course materials. Design/methodology/approach This case study will show how a broad administrative mandate for high-level OAER initiatives created the environment for Penn State (PSU) to evolve from individual pioneering units into coordinated university-wide initiatives. This shift, spearheaded by administration with strong UL involvement, allowed for customized and targeted initiatives at its many campuses. By using UL’s centralized, but geographically dispersed, structure, library faculty and staff have been supported in their efforts to expand OAER from the ground up to meet individual contexts and campus needs. Findings As a result of its many open and affordable initiatives, PSUL has been able to demonstrate both savings and increased access for students across PSU’s many campuses and World Campus. Broad administrative support has created an environment which enabled UL faculty and staff to lead various initiatives. Originality/value UL has long been a leader and partner in open and affordability initiatives at PSU because of its core mission of providing access. By sharing the processes and logistics of how a large research institution with many campuses of various sizes implemented a wide variety of library-driven open and affordability initiatives through a centralized but geographically dispersed structure, academic libraries will be able to replicate similar initiatives in their unique contexts.

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“…19 Steve Rokusek and Rachel Cooke similarly purchased multiuser e-books in their institution's list of required social science texts. 20 Some librarians look to interlibrary loan requests to identify titles at the point of need; Emily Riha and Danika LeMay looked to interlibrary loan requests and found evidence that academic libraries best serve students by purchasing required materials as e-books with multiple user licenses. 21 The library acquisition of digital textbooks for CMS integration is not a topic that has been extensively covered in the literature, though some libraries have begun to license digital textbooks.…”

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Integrating Library Resources in a Learning Management System: Exploring Instructor Obstacles and Motivations

Haggerty

Harrington

Scott

2022

CRL

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This usability study investigates how instructors in a university setting integrate resources into their Learning Management System (LMS) course shells and explores barriers and incentives for doing so. Findings suggest that obstacles encountered while appropriately incorporating licensed library resources in a D2L LMS are substantial. Although many instructors articulate a desire to adhere to copyright guidelines and support the work of librarian colleagues, their methods for providing students access to assigned and recommended readings are influenced by convenience. These findings highlight the need for clear and easily implemented guidelines for providing access to licensed resources, as well as online platforms that are easily navigated for both students and instructors.

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Will Library E-Books Help Solve the Textbook Affordability Issue? Using Textbook Adoption Lists to Target Collection Development

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

No-Cost Learning Material: Perspectives From Industrial and Systems Engineering Students

No-Cost Learning Material: Perspectives From Industrial and Systems Engineering Students

Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation

Integrating Library Resources in a Learning Management System: Exploring Instructor Obstacles and Motivations

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