Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
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Now available: Duke University Press Ebooks
21 July 2021 1:38 PM | 1 Comment -
An Art Historian’s Expedition: Visual Archives and Open Access
24 June 2021 12:03 PM | No Comments -
Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2020-21
03 June 2021 7:00 AM | 5 Comments -
Unveiling of the CLAGSNews Collection
01 June 2021 9:48 AM | No Comments -
Anti-Racism and #BlackLivesMatter Resources
04 June 2020 1:46 PM | 2 Comments
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OER Archive
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Science Writing and OER
Posted on July 30, 2021 | No CommentsAs a disabled scholar and professor, I frequently use scrappy and subversive tactics to survive within the educational industrial complex. I incorporate these tactics into my classes as a way to support my students. One method of academic survival has been to find ways to freely access resources and share that information with my working class students. -
The Complete Cost of OER Labor
Posted on July 22, 2021 | No CommentsAt what point do I, or my fellow contingent faculty, set up the possibility of being replaced in assembling an OER course? And, as underpaid university labor, where do you draw the line between increasing your workload and the needs of your students? -
Aligning Ideals with Practice Through Open Pedagogy
Posted on July 15, 2021 | No CommentsI am motivated by the desire to work through questions about what kinds of knowledge are most valued, who can create that knowledge, and for whom and for what purpose that knowledge is created. -
First Steps Toward Opening the University
Posted on July 8, 2021 | No CommentsThe kind of knowledge production and circulation that I have been trying to articulate is one based on values such as hacking, collegiality, experimentation, and, of course, openness. -
More Than Skills
Posted on July 1, 2021 | No CommentsThe experience I had in the workshop was far beyond my expectations. I thought I would learn some skills, mostly techniques and skills in how to find and prepare Open Education Resources. In fact, I learned a lot about the philosophy of education. -
An Art Historian’s Expedition: Visual Archives and Open Access
Posted on June 24, 2021 | No CommentsAs an art historian and instructor of art history, I look at hundreds of artworks on a weekly basis, but in a contemporary world increasingly mediated by images, nearly all of us come across pictures of some kind everyday. Yet, rarely do we understand where these images come from, who owns them, who has access to them, and if they can be used and shared freely. -
Open Access Takes to the Streets
Posted on June 17, 2021 | No CommentsBelow is the fourteenth and final post in a series by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their […] -
We Can Decide What OER Are For
Posted on June 10, 2021 | No CommentsThis is the first of a series of posts by participants in the Spring 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […] -
Open Educational Resources as the Soul of CUNY
Posted on May 28, 2021 | No CommentsBelow is the thirteenth in a series of posts by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […] -
Access, Resources, and Hip-Hop: A Story of Education
Posted on May 20, 2021 | 1 CommentBelow is the twelfth in a series of posts by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […]
