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Library Usage as a Map for Targeting OER Advocacy November 2, 2016 Greg Raschke, Will Cross, Sydney Thompson, John Vickery, Lillian Rigling
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Library Usage as a Map for Targeting OER Advocacy
November 2, 2016Greg Raschke, Will Cross, Sydney Thompson,
John Vickery, Lillian Rigling
Local Context● Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center.
● Student activism.
● Textbooks on Reserve.
● Physics textbook.
● Alt-Textbooks.
Do Something
Textbooks Can’t!“Students in Immersion Theater” © North Carolina State University
Local Context to Local Study
The ProjectFind a starting point for outreach - top 25%.
Price
Enrollment Use
About the DataData 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)
Total number of textbooks, courses and sections
All four semesters
Textbooks Courses Sections
4,494 2,158 13,163
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
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
Distribution of textbook prices
What We Did with the FindingsAlt-Textbook Prep:
- Information sessions located within convenient proximity to targeted departments
- Required registration for information sessions- Cross referencing lists of attendees with top departments
What We Did with the FindingsData + 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
Next StepsStudent Outreach:
- Establish the libraries as a powerful ally for open education- Partner with student leadership- Create framework for open education advocacy “on student time”
Next StepsMore 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
