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Subject: [Cdc] FW: [LibOER] FW: January 2016 ALCTS e-Forum: How Library Technical Services Can Support OER Initiatives
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Members of the LibOER list please check this out!  If you have any questions, let me know.

Eleanor Cook, cooke@ecu.edu

 

 

 

Greetings,

 

We are pleased to announce next week's e-Forum, entitled “How Library Technical Services Can Support OER Initiatives,” which is scheduled to start Tuesday, January 26, 2016 and run through Wednesday, January 27, 2016.  Details are provided for you below.

 

Description

Open educational resources (OER) are high-quality, openly licensed, online educational materials that offer an opportunity for people everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge. The OER movement continues to gather momentum, particularly in academic libraries.

How can library technical services departments contribute to the support of OER initiatives? This e-Forum will provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas, and those who have experience with supporting OER programs can share their successes and challenges.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

 

Moderators

Nicole Allen is Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role, Nicole leads SPARC's work on open educational resources, focusing on public policy and engaging and supporting the library community on this issue. Nicole joined SPARC in 2013 already established as a leading figure in the OER movement through her previous role at the Student Public Interest Research Groups. During her seven-year tenure, Nicole worked with college students to organize numerous large-scale grassroots campaigns on OER and related issue areas, including organizing 3,000 professors to sign a commitment to consider adopting open textbooks.

Eleanor I. Cook is Assistant Director for Discovery & Technology Services at East Carolina University. Eleanor is a member of the ALCTS Advocacy & Policy Committee and served as the chair of the originating task force during the inception of the committee. She has worked in academic library technical services positions for more than thirty years. East Carolina University’s Joyner Library is currently engaged in outreach to faculty with the hope of increasing the use of OERs.

What is an e-Forum?

The ALCTS e-Forum discussion takes place using email, and you can expect to see a number of emails on this topic during the two-day duration.  When the moderators kick off discussion, you will receive an email message.  To participate, you simply send messages to alcts-eforum@lists.ala.org or respond to an email sent to you.  The settings are designed so that responses go to the entire list.  There is no special software or interface that you have to use. If you wish to change topics or ask a new question, please update the email subject line to identify your topic. This makes it easier for others to follow the discussion. The moderators will be active during set times of the e-Forum, but you are welcome to add to the discussion outside of those times if that works better for your schedule.

 

For the sake of those who receive emails in digest, when responding to an email, please remove threads of previous emails that are not directly pertinent to your response. It makes the digest longer and difficult to read.

If you're busy and you don't want to actively participate, or if the number of emails gets to be too much, here are some options for managing your subscription.  If you can't figure things out, please email alcts-eforum-request@lists.ala.org.  Be kind to everyone else on the list and don't email "Take me off this list" requests to all participants.

 

1. How to unsubscribe: If you wish to unsubscribe to the e-Forum entirely, log intohttp://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/alcts-eforum and you should see the option "unsubscribe" on the left sidebar. Just click on that and enter your email address to unsubscribe from the list. The entire discussion will be available at the above URL as well, if you'd prefer to read it later.  You can always resubscribe to the list at a later date if a future topic is of interest to you.

2.  Get digest format: If you would like to receive fewer emails, you can set your list settings to digest format.  Go to:http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/alcts-eforum, log in using the email and password that you received when you signed up for the list.  Choose "subscriber options" on the left.  Then in Receiving mode, choose "digest MIME format."  The digest is set to provide one message per 25 messages sent to the list and are generated Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 3 PM Central Time.

3.  Use email filters and threads to keep your inbox organized: If you want to participate fully in the e-Forum, but want to keep the email messages separate from other email, you can probably set up a filter in your mail client, which will have e-forum messages directly delivered to a folder of your choice, as opposed to your in-box (just don't forget to check the folder!), or flag the messages to alert you that they are e-Forum messages.  You can also organize the folder by threads to keep track of conversations.

 

Below are directions for Thunderbird, Outlook, and Gmail on how to do this:

THUNDERBIRD

On the top dropdown menus, go to Tools--Message Filters Click New Name your filter whatever you want (e.g., e-forums). In the top box, set up the filter to match: subject contains [alcts-eforum] (this header is contained in all of the messages). In the bottom box, Perform these actions, Move message to [create a folder where you'd like to have the e-forum messages sent, e.g. e-forums]

To thread the conversation, on the top dropdown menus, go to View--Sort by--Threaded

OUTLOOK

Click the Rules button on the Home ribbon and choose “Create Rule”. Set up the rule to match: subject contains [alcts-eforum] (this header is contained in all of the messages). Check “move the item to folder” [select/create a folder where you'd like to have the e-forum messages sent, e.g. e-forums]

To thread the conversation, go to the View ribbon, and click “Show as conversation.”

GMAIL

Go to Settings (upper right) and choose the Filters tab and create a new filter. Set up the filter to match: subject contains [alcts-eforum] (this header is contained in all of the messages). Star it or label it with a special message to alert you that is an e-forum message.

Gmail automatically displays messages in threads.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

 

Happy New Year,
Rebecca Kemp Goldfinger, on behalf of myself and Nadine Ellero, ALCTS e-Forum Co-Coordinators
alcts-eforum-request@lists.ala.org

 

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