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Item Advancing Textbook Affordability: Considerations for Open and Affordable Course Materials(Against the Grain, 2019-11) Santiago, ArianaThis article provides an overview of the Alternative Textbook Incentive Program at the University of Houston, compares the use of open educational resources (OER) and library-funded resources, outlines pros and cons, and provides practical advice for other libraries considering similar programs.Item American Library Association GLBT Roundtable 50th Anniversary Archival Digitization Project(2017-06-23) Santiago, Ariana; Ettarh, Fobazi; Grissom, Andrew; McKeever, Lucas; Van Cleve, StewartThe Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020. Founded in 1970 as the Task Force on Gay Liberation, it was the first gay and lesbian professional organization in the United States. As part of the celebration for the upcoming anniversary, the GLBTRT has embarked on a three-year project to collect, digitize, and make accessible documents and materials pertaining to the history of the Round Table as a digital archive. The 2017 cohort of Emerging Leaders chosen for this project gathered information, created and bolstered community connections, and laid the foundation for a robust archive that this groundbreaking organization deserves.Item Behind the Scenes of OER Librarianship: Facilitation, Collaboration, and Process(2020-05-14) Santiago, ArianaSave students money. Improve student learning. Innovate pedagogical practice. These are common desired outcomes of open education initiatives in higher education. We know these are worthwhile outcomes and that OER hold great potential to impact student success. But how do we get there? What is the process of achieving these outcomes, and importantly, how do we create inclusive processes for advancing OER and affordability? To address these questions, Ariana Santiago will “pull back the curtain” on OER librarianship and share her approach to this work. This presentation will include examples from the field and focus on the roles of facilitation and collaboration in advancing open education initiatives. Keynote presentation for the Springer Nature Summit entitled "Affordable Course Materials: A Closer Look at Librarians and OER/AER" on May 14, 2020.Item CHIN/WCL 3342: Tales of East Asian Cities(University of Houston Libraries, 2022-12-20) Li, Melody; Carter, Katherine; Santiago, ArianaThis book features essays about six major East Asian cities contributed by students of the Fall 2022 CHIN/WCL 3342: Tales of East Asian Cities course. Essays describe background information about each of the cities, followed by critical analyses of relevant cultural subjects.Item Developing OER Publishing Support: A Case Study(2020-05-06) Santiago, ArianaThe University of Houston Libraries (UHL) launched its open educational resources (OER) program in 2018, including an incentive program for the adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER in place of traditional textbooks. Interest in creating OER was higher than expected, prompting the need to increase support for OER publishing. This case study shares activities and lessons learned from an institution that is new to OER support and does not have established library publishing services. The main strategies to support OER publishing at UHL are providing funding through the OER incentive program, copyright and Creative Commons licensing guidance, and offering Pressbooks as an authoring tool. A lesson learned is the need to determine available capacity to support OER publishing by evaluating the time and resources needed alongside institutional and program goals. Additionally, it is important to communicate the services UHL does not provide, such as peer-review, editing, and proofreading. This presentation shares an intentionally scaled-down model for supporting OER publishing and a perspective from an institution that is exploring and developing in this area.Item Developing online instruction according to best practices(Journal of Information Literacy, 2019-12-03) Lierman, Ashley; Santiago, ArianaTo meet the growing online and face-to-face library instruction needs of a large research university, a team of librarians set out to develop asynchronous online instruction of sufficient quality to supplement and replace classroom teaching. This report describes the best practices that were identified from a review of the literature, the instructional design process that was used to implement these practices in a pedagogically effective way, the results of pilot testing of the instruction, and implications for future practice. The result is a template for development that can be used by other librarians seeking to develop robust, effective, and accessible online learning objects, whether to reach out to online learners or improve the scalability of information literacy instruction.Item Enhancing OER Support by Developing a Workflow and Service Model(2019-05-14) Santiago, ArianaThis is a Capstone Project Report resulting from participation in the 2018-19 SPARC Open Education Leadership Program. The capstone project focused on developing internal infrastructure in order to support a new and quickly growing OER program at the University of Houston (UH). The primary goals of the project were to develop an OER adoption workflow to support instructors in replacing commercial textbooks, and to develop a service model for an effective and sustainable level of OER support. This report details the process of completing the capstone project, which included conducting an environmental scan of OER needs at UH, reviewing existing OER workflows and similar resources, developing an OER adoption workflow specific to the UH context, and beginning to develop a service model for OER support. Successful completion of the capstone project is evaluated by comparing project outcomes to the desired goals. “SPARC Capstone Final Report: Enhancing OER Support by Developing a Workflow and Service Model” by Ariana Santiago is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Item Grow Your Community: An Exploration of Peer Mentoring for People of Color(2016-08-12) Santiago, Ariana; Anantachai, Tarida; Cunningham, Sojourna; Pho, Annie; Cabrera, Mara; Davis, Rebecca; Olmos, Nancy; Rios-Alvarado, EvaWe will showcase examples of grassroots approaches to creating formal and informal peer mentoring groups. Peer mentoring led by people of color is an approach to mentorship that creates safe spaces and the ability to define a professional and personal identity. We will also address the challenges and opportunities presented by such models, including their effects on early career development. Join us as we discuss perspectives in creating diversity networks for collaborative growth.Item Library Residents on the Bleeding Edge: Delivering Value through Innovation, Leadership, and Inclusion(2015-03-26) Santiago, Ariana; Arnold-Garza, Sara; Linares, RosalindaThis poster highlights cutting-edge projects produced by current and former residency librarians. Projects will illustrate the pillars of a residency experience: the role of the residency librarian as a catalyst for innovation, the importance of leadership skills for imagining and executing work in new areas of academic librarianship, and the value of a diversity perspective to sustaining programs and services that support the variety of campus communities.Item Navigating Support Models for OER Publishing: Case Studies from the University of Houston and the University of Washington(Reference Services Review, 2020-07-23) Santiago, Ariana; Ray, Lauren"Navigating Support Models for OER Publishing: Case Studies from the University of Houston and the University of Washington” was published in Reference Services Review, Volume 48, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1108/RSR-03-2020-0019. This Author Accepted Manuscript is deposited under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Any reuse is allowed in accordance with the terms outlined by the license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to describe programs that support Open Educational Resources (OER) publishing in academic libraries. Insights, opportunities, and challenges are shared in relation to the broader Open Education movement. This paper provides two case studies describing the development of OER publishing programs at large, public research universities - the University of Houston and the University of Washington. Each program takes an Author DIY approach to publishing support and is in the early years of supporting OER adoption and creation. These case studies demonstrate the need for a greater focus on decision making and workflows. They illuminate challenges and opportunities for librarians supporting OER initiatives, including adapting existing models of OER publishing, navigating institutional culture, moving OER programs beyond affordability, and how to sustain and scale OER programs with shifting institutional support. OER is an emerging program area within academic libraries, and much of the focus has been on outreach and advocacy around affordable alternatives to commercial textbooks. Little has been written about programmatic initiatives to support OER publishing. This paper adds unique examples to the OER literature and raises new questions around support for OER publishing.Item A New Approach to Outreach Assessment: Evaluation of ROI for Out-of-Class Student Programs(2018-12-05) Santiago, Ariana; Vinson, Emily; Warren, MeaThe University of Houston Libraries’ 2017-2021 Strategic Plan includes a focus on positioning UH Libraries as a campus leader in student success initiatives. To ensure the success of this goal, a team was assembled and tasked with assessing the return on investment for the Libraries’ involvement in out-of-class programs that enrich the student experience. This poster will describe the project goals, methodology, findings, and recommendations. The goals of this project were to identify out-of-class programs that the library sponsors or has significant participation in, assess their purpose and impact, and make recommendations for how to prioritize and allocate resources moving forward. Team members defined the scope of the project, collected and categorized data on student-focused programs across branches and departments, and holistically assessed their purpose and impact to determine the return on investment and make recommendations. The presenters will share practical strategies for facilitating a cross-departmental team of librarians and staff on an assessment project with a short timeline. The completion of this project led to the creation of new workflows and communication strategies in order to enact the project recommendations, enabling this assessment project to be sustainable and affect future practices. This poster will present a unique project within the broader landscape of academic library outreach assessment. Much of the literature focuses on assessing outreach efforts at the individual program level - for example, how to gather data to assess the impact of a specific event. This project focused instead on assessing the Libraries’ outreach programming from a holistic perspective. This is a significant endeavor as this type of assessment had not previously been undertaken at UH Libraries and is not often represented in the broader literature. The return on investment project was completed in 2017 and the recommendations are now being operationalized. The results of this project have implications for outreach assessment and libraries’ impact on student success through engagement with their out-of-class experience.Item OER in the Health Sciences: Increasing Customization & Affordability(2021-05-11) Santiago, ArianaOpen educational resources (OER) present unique benefits for teaching and learning. These free and adaptable resources help make higher education more affordable for students and allow greater flexibility with course materials and pedagogy. The Health Sciences Library invites you to a session on open educational resources. Ariana Santiago, OER Coordinator at UH Libraries, will discuss OER and affordable resources, with a focus on OER available in the health sciences and practical examples of what it can mean to engage with OER.Item Reading About Diversity: Developing and Reflecting on Inclusive Instructional Resources(2016-08-11) Santiago, Ariana; Hernandez, Ernesto; Godbey, Samantha; Garcia, Kenny; Davis, LindsayMembers of the ACRL Instruction Section Instruction for Diverse Populations Committee describe their process in collaboratively revising and developing resources to support instruction librarians working with diverse populations. The presenters will share highlights from the newly updated Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography, identify gaps in the literature on instruction for diverse populations, and reflect on how these resources relate to their own institutional contexts and initiatives.Item A Tale of Two Classes: Transforming Core Curriculum Pedagogy(2017-09-22) Santiago, Ariana; Lierman, Ashley; Warren, MeaPresented at the Texas Library Association's Library Instruction Roundtable Summit, this presentation describes how the University of Houston Libraries instruction program utilizes a team-based approach to revising pedagogy for core information literacy curricula. Presenters discussed our recurring evaluation process and revisions made for two classes: Freshman Writing 1 and Engineering Technical Writing. Attendees gained ideas for active learning activities and how to make continual improvements to pedagogy and assessment.Item Teacher Efficacy and its Implications for Instructional Librarians(2017-03-23) Santiago, ArianaHow confident are you in teaching particular concepts, using certain pedagogical strategies, or engaging students in the classroom? Teacher efficacy – or a teacher’s beliefs in their capability to achieve desired outcomes in student learning – influences student achievement and motivation, teacher motivation, burnout, and more. Visit this poster to learn more about teacher efficacy, its importance in the context of library instruction, and strategies for fostering teacher efficacy beliefs.Item Teacher Training: Preparing New Librarians for Library Instruction(2016-10-01) Santiago, Ariana; Warren, Mea; Creelman, KerryMany new librarians face the challenge of having to teach information literacy without prior teaching experience. This presentation will share how the library instruction program at the University of Houston supports librarians through these challenges by describing a customized training plan for a new librarian. Attendees will gain strategies for supporting new and experienced instruction librarians through collaboration and reflection.