Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library. Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library. Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
Initiative Title
Open Textbook Network workshop
Initiative Details
The MSU Libraries hosted an Open Textbook Network (OTN) workshop for faculty and other university partners in October. The workshop helped launch our participation in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Program, which aims to reduce educational costs for students by providing free, low-cost, and openly-licensed learning materials. Open textbooks are a type of OER and are openly licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. Nearly 75 faculty members attended the workshop. The MSU Libraries have 668 titles from the Open Textbook Library available in our Library catalog.
Initiative Lead(s)
Regina
Gong
OER Librarian
Timeline
Completed
10/19/2019