Making OER Sustainable in the Library: Building Community through Professional Development for Librarians

Authors

Joanna Thompson, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Joshua Peach, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-16-2023

Abstract

While open educational resources (OER) programs are often situated in university and college libraries, librarians come to the practice with different levels of exposure and knowledge. At the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) library, we attempted to bridge this gap by offering a paid training for all full-time librarians at the college. Our goal for the training was to integrate the philosophy of open educational resources and its approaches into librarians’ everyday work. This article outlines the rationale for our approach to professional development, the program design, participant feedback, and future directions.

Comments

This article was originally published in Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education, available at https://doi.org/10.13001/joerhe.v2i1.7203

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).