SCELC Webinar w/ Steven Bell: Navigating the Textbook Affordability Landscape

Thanks to everyone who RSVPed and attended today's webinar!

A video recording of the whole session is available to stream via Vimeo:

Or as a direct download (.MP4 file; ~66MB)

Steven Bell's slides are also available here (.PPTX file; ~3MB)

Webinar for SCELC Libraries:

Navigating the Textbook Affordability Landscape: Publishers, Platforms, and Partners

More academic institutions and publisher platforms seek to leverage Open Educational Resources (OER) as a measure to reduce the cost of higher education. While that's encouraging, it contributes to a muddying of academic perceptions of OER.

In this webinar, Seven Bell will discuss the current state of library and non-library textbook affordability efforts, and what librarians need know to educate faculty about an expanding spectrum of options. He will offer strategies library consortia could adopt to help their members go farther, together, to achieve broader textbook affordability goals. Steven will also share his research on the relationship between academic libraries and college stores, which is often thought to be adversarial but may actually serve to facilitate collaborative textbook affordability efforts. He will share suggestions for developing a better relationship with the campus store.

About the Presenter:

Steven Bell

Steven J. Bell is the Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Temple University. He writes and speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library leadership, higher education, open learning content, design thinking and user experience. Steven is a past-president of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

He currently writes at Designing Better Libraries, a blog about design thinking and library user experiences. He authors weekly columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, From the Bell Tower and Leading from the Library. He is co-author of the book Crucible Moments: Inspiring Library Leadership. 

For additional information about Steven J. Bell or links to his projects, point your browser to http://stevenbell.info 

Webinar Registration:

The event is a free webinar, but we are limited in the number of attendees able to simultaneously join the livestream. A recording will be made available shortly after the webinar ends. Please RSVP below using Eventbrite. SCELC Staff will send attendance links through Eventbrite messaging. If you do not receive your attendance information by Monday, 10/23/17, please send a message through our Contact Form.