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ORCID IDs
Catherine Fraser Riehle https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9927-2238
Melissa Gomis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-8560
Document Type
Presentation
Date of this Version
4-2025
Citation
Democratizing Knowledge + Access + Opportunities: The Proceedings of the ACRL [Association of College and Research Libraries] 2025 Conference, April 2–5, 2025, Minneapolis, MN. Dawn M. Mueller (ed.). Pp. 450–457.
Abstract
Librarians at a large public university describe ongoing efforts to develop a strategic, multi-pronged Libraries Course Materials Program to reduce course material costs for students. These efforts include the integration of course materials in the university’s learning management system in addition to offering course materials reviews, consultations, and grant opportunities for instructors. A pilot program in the College of Business provided a path for direct outreach to instructors as well as significant potential student cost savings and revealed challenges related to communication and recruitment. Authors share their approach to program evaluation for understanding and communicating impact and for estimating the program’s return-on investment as well as their plans to test the feasibility of determining and providing the lowest-cost version available of selected course materials at scale, campus-wide.
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Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Instructional Media Design Commons, Library and Information Science Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
Copyright © 2025 Catherine Fraser Riehle and Melissa Gomis.
CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Presentation slides are available in Additional Files.