2025 PASCAL Member Conference

The rising costs of textbooks and course materials are becoming more of a barrier to student success than ever before. More students than ever are having to find more creative was to obtain materials or go without them. This trend is affecting academic performance, which is resulting in higher withdrawals, failures and lower grade point averages. Higher Education Institutions are formulating new ways to use Open Educational Resources (OER), Affordable Education Resources (AER), and Open Access Resources (OAR), collectively referred to as affordable course materials. Knowing that using and gathering these resources puts added work on faculty, the Daniel Library has created a program in which most of the work falls on the library. It is a simple program that incorporates workflows that are already in place. Even with the loss of perpetual licenses in Proquest, Ebook central, the program is still firm on its foundation.

Moderator: Susan Myers, Spartanburg Methodist College