Even prior to the COVID-19 shutdowns of 2020, streaming video usage on college and university campuses was rapidly increasing. Kanopy's early patron-driven acquisition (PDA) model offered clear benefits for end users but posed significant budgetary challenges for collection librarians. Coastal Carolina University Libraries adopted Kanopy's Smart PDA program, which established sustainable budget guardrails while continuing to provide robust access to streaming video content for patrons.
With the EBSCO Faculty Portal being retired, libraries need a sustainable way to connect users with Open Education Resources (OER). This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of how to use Discovery Collections to curate specific resources into dedicated, browsable sets. We’ll show examples of how this looks in practice and share resources to help you prepare for this transition. This session is a preview of PASCAL’s full-length webinar on June 24, “Open Arms, Open Access: Your Journey to Discoverable Open Resources”.
This talk will cover partnership and collaboration between myself as an instruction librarian and a division of my college that I liaison with. I worked with an instructor to develop curriculum for, and teach a course dedicated to developing students' information literacy skills through research, constructing citations, and formatting. This talk will address three points: collaboration across two divisions of the college, impact of the course on students, and impact for the college overall. Anecdotes from the development and active teaching of the course will serve as examples of the collaboration required to create it, and its impact on students and the college.
