1. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO
SEE—ONE YEAR INTO OPEN ED
SARAH FAYE COHEN
CAL POLY, SAN LUIS OBISPO

2. ONE YEAR AGO….
Highlights from Open Ed 2012 in Vancouver
• Gardener Campbell—”That is not what we meant,
that is not it at all.”
• John Willinsky—”If we don’t change students’
expectations, we won’t see changes.”
• Nicole Allen—”Textbook affordability is a barrier to
student success.”
• Dave Ernst—”Understanding the barriers faculty
face and acting on them.”

3. WHERE ARE THE LIBRARIANS?
HOW CAN LIBRARIES SUPPORT
OPEN EDUCATION?

4. THIS
PRESENTATION:
• What one (my)
library is doing.
• What role do
libraries have to
play in Open?
• Why aren’t they
playing them?

5. GARDENER CAMPBELL,
“IT IS NOT ABOUT BEING OPEN BUT
OPENING”
WH A T O N E L I B R A R Y I S D O I N G A Y E A R T O T H E D A Y

6. OPEN ACCESS TO TEXTBOOKS FOR
STUDENTS

7. OATS: WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT
• It Is:
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Based on 50 most circulating textbooks in Course Reserves
Additional course support materials
Library Use Only; Findable from the library catalog
Unmediated (not “on reserve”); Honor-dependent
• It Is Not…
• …necessarily adopted textbooks
• …necessarily open textbooks (though they are there!)
• Where We’re Headed:
• “Finding” open textbooks for students via our website and
catalog
• Student driven growth of the collection (Textbook-drive)
• So What?
• A focus on course materials rather than research materials
• Student exposure to Open Textbooks

8. A NEW
POSITION:
OPEN
EDUCATION
LIBRARIAN
Core responsibilities:
• Spearhead our efforts around
affordable learning solutions,
open textbooks, open
educational resources, and
collaborate on open access
issues.
• Strategize and advocate for
OER dissemination &
adoption
• Liaison to School of Education
• Developing relationships
across the faculty, including
the library faculty, to promote
adoption
• Creating workshops and
trainings
• Merging OER and library
content

9. SIPX
• A web-based, copyright and digital document
delivery service
• Point faculty to library-subscribed content, open content,
and (then) copyrighted content including the cost of that
content
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Offering faculty new ways to identify content
Raising awareness of copyright costs among faculty
Providing access to course materials digitally
Bringing issues of affordability to faculty’s attention

10. CAMPUS AWARENESS AND ATTITUDES
TOWARDS OPEN
Student Survey
• Student Library Advisory
Council Annual Survey
• Emphasis on:
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OATS
Reserves
Course Packs
Textbooks
Identifying Barriers
Articulating habits
Faculty Survey
• ITHAKA survey
• Faculty attitudes,
perceptions, habits
around library use and
library collections,
research, scholarship,
publishing, teaching.
• Writing a module on
“open” -- open data,
open access, open
textbooks.

11. EXPLORING PARTNERSHIPS
• Local Partners:
• Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
• Cal Poly’s Bookstore
• Cal Poly’s Student Association
• Regional Partners:
• CSU Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$)
• MERLOT
• California Community Colleges, Univ. of California
• Open Textbook Catalog @ Univ. of Minnesota
• Other Libraries
• Temple, UMass Amherst
• Collaborations on incentivizing adoption with their CTLs
• University of Michigan’s Open.Michigan

12. IS THAT LIST BIG ENOUGH?
A G A I N , WH E R E A R E L I B R A R I E S ?

13. A LENS INTO LIBRARIES
• Underlying structural
and organizational
concerns
• Open
is a “disruptive”
innovation
• Libraries’ capacity
for change
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14. ORGANIZATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL
CONCERNS
• How does Open fit into what libraries already do?
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Scholarly Communication
Institutional Repositories
Information Literacy Curriculum
Instruction and Outreach
Access Services
Interlibrary Loan
Reserves
Collection Development and Collections Management
Electronic Resources Management
Cataloging, Indexing, Metadata

15. A CRITIQUE
• OER is not easy to find
• “What do you want to do—catalog the web?”
• Libraries make things “findable”
• A lack of understanding of this essential and core function
• Who does, and is going to do, the work associated with making
this new kind of content “findable”?
• Metadata schemes aligned with library systems
• How do publishers compare?
• Example: E-book cataloging is still a pain but at least records are
provided

16. OPEN IS “DISRUPTIVE” TO
LIBRARIES

17. LIBRARIES RISK THEIR
“STAMP OF APPROVAL”
• OER and authority, reliability,
sustainability.
• Flatworld Knowledge
• “Soft” funding
• Information Literacy &
Instruction
• Teaching critical thinking skills
in order to use publishers’
products.
• Relationships
• Publishers
• Licensing
• Libraries’ as a portal to paid
for products
• Metrics
• The fundamental metric of
libraries was based on what
they owned (licensed,
subscribed to, lent, borrowed).
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18. LIBRARIES AREN’T STRANGERS TO
CHANGE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vblibrary/4993073773/

19. HOW CAN WE MEANINGFULLY
COLLABORATE WITH LIBRARIES?
• Organizing information and making it accessible
• Indexing, cataloging, metadata—it’s not the open web, it’s
quality content that needs integration
• Leverage libraries’ work thus far
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David W. Lewis (Sept. 2012), “The Inevitability of Open Access”
Institutional repositories
Directory of Open Access Journals; Sherpa/RoMEO
Commons builders: Hathi Trust, Open Library, DPLA
• Demonstrating Value
• Megan Oakleaf (2010) “The Value of Academic Libraries”
• Communicating in a variety of languages
• A trusted resource and bridge to faculty
• Information habits of users, especially students

20. AN
OPPORTUNITY—
AN OPENING
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21. THANK YOU!
SFCOHEN@CALPOLY.EDU
@THESHECK