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As higher education costs rise, libraries have been making strategic investments in open educational resources to help eliminate textbook costs for students and promote student success. Traditional course reserves can be an important supplement to these efforts and help libraries support affordable course materials at scale while magnifying the impact of our collections. At the same time, textbook publishing models are evolving in ways that make providing library access more challenging.

Join the CARLI Resource Sharing Committee and your colleagues from across Illinois for an open discussion about course reserves. How are academic reserves services evolving to meet emerging needs and strategic priorities? What tools are we using to facilitate access? What opportunities exist to expand the footprint of reserves on our campuses? What new challenges are we encountering?

To facilitate open conversation, this discussion event will not be recorded. 

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Please send any questions to support@carli.illinois.edu

Are you working on open educational resources (OER) or curious about what others are doing in your field? Join us for a lively virtual meet-up designed to spark ideas, share experiences and tips, and explore opportunities for cross-institutional OER partnerships.

This session is all about connection and inspiration. We’ll:

• Hear about current OER projects in development or use;
• Discuss concerns / problems you have encountered;
• Share tips on possible solutions;
• Discuss areas of interest for future collaboration;
• Create space for teaming up on shared goals and initiatives.

Whether you’re just getting started or already deep into OER work, this meet-up is a chance to learn from peers, build new relationships, and imagine what’s possible together.

Facilitators: Zach Claybaugh, Dominican University; Shelly McDavid, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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Sponsored by the CARLI OER Committee

How can libraries demonstrate their value to stakeholders? This session will explore strategies for aligning library services with institutional and community goals, conducting needs assessments, gathering meaningful data, and communicating impact. Drawing on experience in both academic and public libraries, the presentation offers practical approaches that libraries of any type can use to assess needs, measure outcomes, and build a compelling case for support. 

Presenter:

Katy Webb (she/her) has served as the Betty Drees Johnson Dean of the Library and Learning Technologies at Stetson University’s duPont-Ball Library since July of 2024. She received her MLIS degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. After serving as the Head of Research and Instructional Services at East Carolina University, she was the Director of Yale Access Services and Bass Library at Yale University. Katy was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant that took her to Leiden, the Netherlands to assist them in envisioning a digital scholar’s lab. Her writing focuses on library space usage, library labs, student employee engagement, how libraries can contribute to the High Impact Practices for Student Success (HIPs), and mindfulness, yoga, and burnout in libraries. She is the author of the book, Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decisionmaker’s Guide, which initially appeared in 2018. A second edition is in the works and will appear in 2027. She is the incoming president of the Florida chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (FACRL).

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Hosted by FLVC 
 

The Technical Services Committee Meeting meets monthly via Zoom. Contact the committee chair or CARLI staff with any questions.