Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
Academic libraries are increasingly providing education and support for faculty interested in open educational resources (OER). Some academic libraries offer comprehensive training programs and dedicated staff to support the creation and adoption of OER. Other libraries focus on smaller initiatives seeking to explore the interests of OER stakeholders on their campuses. However, there are still a significant number of academic libraries with little or no experience supporting faculty OER needs. This was the situation at Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, and Johnson C. Smith University in early 2016.
Most of the librarians at these institutions had minimal to no experience working with OER, and had no clear concept of which of their faculty had adopted or contributed to OER. Fortunately, these institutions have access to a shared endowment that facilitates collaborative programming across their institutions. Beginning in the summer of 2016, librarians from these four schools joined together to develop a unique OER pilot program that pooled resources and created a support structure across institutions with notably different student populations, faculty interests, and library structures.
Scholarship Type
Faculty Scholarship
Additional Affiliated Department, Center or Institute
Libraries
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Crissinger, Sarah, Andrea Wright, Christy Allen, Julie Reed, and Geneen Clinkscales. “Interinstitutional Collaborations to Forge Intracampus Connections: A Case Study from the Duke Endowment Libraries.” In OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians edited by Andrew Wesolek, Jonathan Lashley, and Anne Langley. Pacific University Press, 2018.
Comments
This publication was published as Chapter 15 in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians, edited by Andrew Wesolek, Jonathan Lashley, and Anne Langley.