Category: Contributions to the Field (presentations and research)

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Presentation: Textbook Lending Library at OSU

Abstract of the presentation: Lori Hilterbrand, Kelly McElroy, Nicole Hindes and Dan Moore talked about the Textbook Lending Library at OSU. Despite the clear negative impact of high textbook costs on students, limits—including space, funding, and policies—prevent many academic libraries from fully supporting textbook collections. Partnering with other campus units on textbook lending requires creative thinking but can provide students access to other services in addition to the books they need for class. This talk describes a partnership between an academic library and a student services unit to provide support for a noncustodial textbook lending program. The talk is about 18 minutes long with about 10 minutes in questions from the audience captured as well.

If you’d like to learn more about this project, the collaborating partners also published the article “Access Services are Human Services.“

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Collaborative Social Justice Service-Learning

Transitioning to Inclusive Sustainability in an Insecure and Divided World

Brittney Chesher, graduate student, presents to a crowded room of professionals about the HSRC

Brittney Chesher, graduate intern with the HSRC, recently had the opportunity to be a presenter at the Washington Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference held at Portland State University on February 7th. During the panel session, Brittney was able to share resources with attendees interested in learning how to better support college students experiencing food, housing, and financial insecurity. “The HSRC and UHDS are doing some great things and it was so rewarding to share tangible resources and potential next steps with other institutions in the region who are becoming aware of how important it is to meet student’s basic needs”. Brittney was able to share about resources that have developed at OSU in the past few years including: @eatfreeOSU twitter campaign, the HSRC Food Pantry, and the work that went into the an on-campus c-store, Cascadia Market, accepting SNAP funds.

Brittney’s presentation slides are available online.

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Collaborating to keep costs low for students

The HSRC’s Textbook Lending Program, a collaboration with some amazing partners  OSU Valley Library has been an important success. We wrote about our work for the Journal of Access Services.

Access services are human services: Collaborating to provide textbook access to students

Written by Kelly McElroy, Dan Moore, Lori Hilterbrand and Nicole Hindes

ABSTRACT

Despite the clear negative impact of high textbook costs on students, limits—including space, funding, and policies—prevent many academic libraries from fully supporting textbook collections. Partnering with other campus units on textbook lending requires creative thinking but can provide students access to other services in addition to the books they need for class. This article describes a partnership between an academic library and a student services unit to provide support for a noncustodial textbook lending program.

The full text of the article can be found at this link.