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- 1. Library Usage as a Map for Targeting OER Advocacy November 2, 2016 Greg Raschke, Will Cross, Sydney Thompson, John Vickery, Lillian Rigling
- 2. Local Context ● Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center. ● Student activism. ● Textbooks on Reserve. ● Physics textbook. ● Alt-Textbooks.
- 6. Do Something Textbooks Can’t! “Students in Immersion Theater” © North Carolina State University
- 7. Local Context to Local Study
- 8. The Project Find a starting point for outreach - top 25%. Price Enrollment Use
- 9. About the Data Data sources: ● Lists of official textbooks from NCSU bookstores ○ Price and enrollment ● Data warehouse of ILS transactions ○ Link usage to the semester that the textbook was in use ● Point in time ILS data ○ Crosswalk the data between bookstore and ILS transactions ● Course and enrollment data Timeframe: ● Fall 2014 to Spring 2016 (summers excluded)
- 10. Total number of textbooks, courses and sections All four semesters Textbooks Courses Sections 4,494 2,158 13,163
- 11. Total number of textbooks, courses and sections By Semester Semester Textbooks Courses Sections Fall 2014 2,039 1,250 3,767 Spring 2015 1,735 1,083 3,085 Fall 2015 1,894 1,121 3,355 Spring 2016 1,764 1,069 2,956
- 12. Key Findings ● Clear set of “low hanging fruit” textbooks ● Approx. 100 textbooks identified for each semester ● 49 different departments represented in the top 25% list ○ Math ○ Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering ○ Computer Science ○ Statistics ○ Electrical & Computer Engineering ● 230 = average enrollment ● $162 = average price
- 13. Distribution of textbook prices
- 14. What We Did with the Findings Alt-Textbook Prep: - Information sessions located within convenient proximity to targeted departments - Required registration for information sessions - Cross referencing lists of attendees with top departments
- 15. What We Did with the Findings Data + Relationships = Outreach - Work closely with subject specialists - Identify pre-existing relationships between librarians & faculty in top 25% - Engaging at the College/Departmental leadership level - Data provides certain credibility - particularly in relation to demand
- 16. Next Steps Student Outreach: - Establish the libraries as a powerful ally for open education - Partner with student leadership - Create framework for open education advocacy “on student time”
- 17. Next Steps More Questions: - What about 26%, 30%, 35%? - What about high-use, high-enrollment, but not “high-cost”? - Unique users and cost: saving money or just backaches? - Study relationship between use and affordability from user perspective