As every college student knows, textbooks are expensive! The game is rigged: publishers are constantly releasing new editions of textbooks with only slight changes to the material, but if you don't buy the overpriced textbook, you're going to have a hard time passing the class.
Wouldn't it be great if textbooks were free and high-quality? That's the premise behind the open textbook movement. The Open Textbook Network, a large collection of colleges and universities including Ohio State and Penn State, is at the forefront in promoting the creation and use of open textbooks. You can browse available textbooks in their Open Textbook Library. Can't find a textbook that matches up with your class? If you're a student, ask your professor to consider writing an open textbook for the class. If you're a professor, consider writing an open textbook for your subject area. Lots of students will thank you.
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Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
5/02/2013
Free Coffee, Game Night, and a Publications Showcase at Langsdale
May is a busy month around campus as student are finishing up classes and preparing for final exam week.
At the end of the semester students are like:
So, Langsdale Library is giving the tired, stressed-out, "can't-wait-for-the-semester-to-end" students some extra energy. Stop by the first floor for free lemonade and coffee from 8:30am to 6pm, Monday, May 6 through Thursday, May 9.
One cup of coffee or lemonade, and you'll be alert like:
At the end of the semester students are like:
So, Langsdale Library is giving the tired, stressed-out, "can't-wait-for-the-semester-to-end" students some extra energy. Stop by the first floor for free lemonade and coffee from 8:30am to 6pm, Monday, May 6 through Thursday, May 9.
One cup of coffee or lemonade, and you'll be alert like:
11/15/2012
News in the World of Books and Libraries
- The National Book Awards for fiction, poetry and nonfiction were announced last night (despite the National Book Foundation's headquarters suffering significant structural damage due to Sandy) at an event aimed to give the publishing world a new pizazz and relevance.
The winners:
FICTION: Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
POETRY: David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press)
NONFICTION: Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
- Occupy Wall Street founds a library (read about it in this great article).
- Two giants of publishing are set to merge: Random House with Penguin.
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