<p dir="ltr">This is not the kind of thing I usually post but it sure looks interesting and I thought maybe some of you in academic libraries would want to know about it, if you don't already. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "JOHN SHANK" <<a href="mailto:jds30@psu.edu">jds30@psu.edu</a>><br>Date: May 19, 2015 12:22 PM<br>Subject: [libadmin] Join us for the 5/28 Blended Librarians Webinar "On Becoming Open Education Leaders"<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:libadmin@lists.ala.org">libadmin@lists.ala.org</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div><div style="font-family:Garamond;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><br><div><span style="font-size:16pt"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Century Gothic',sans-serif">On Becoming Open Education Leaders</span></strong></span><div style="color:#212121;font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:18pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Date:</strong></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="color:#336699"><span>Thursday, May 28</span></span> </span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Time</strong></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt">: 3:00 pm EST</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Duration:</strong></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt"> 60 min</span></span></div><div style="color:#212121;font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#1f497d">Join the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community on </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><strong><span style="color:#336699"><span>Thursday, May 28</span></span> at 3:00 pm EST</strong></span><span style="color:#1f497d"> for a webcast presentation and discussion with Quill West, an open education advocate, librarian, and educator from Washington State. Currently Quill is the Open Education Project Manager at Pierce College. In her webcast, West will speak to the importance of academic librarians fostering an institutional culture that embraces open education as their institutions recognize that textbook costs create a significant barrier to students’ access to education. Librarians in Washington State are taking a leadership role in college-wide efforts to adopt alternatives to textbooks by engaging in a Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) Grant administered by the Washington State Library/Office of the Secretary of State. In the effort to achieve open education leadership, West and colleagues have created a course for librarians on how to serve open education needs. The webcast will address the open education skills that librarians are developing in order to better serve the open education needs of our institutions.</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#212121;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:#1f497d;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt">Quill West is an open education advocate, librarian, and educator from Washington state. Currently Quill is the Open Education Project Manager at Pierce College, where she works with students, faculty, and administrators to lower student costs for textbooks by adopting open resources. Quill has worked in open education for five years, and has worked on a project at Tacoma Community College that successfully saved students over one million dollars in traditional textbook costs.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#212121;font-size:15px;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;background-color:#ffffff"><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:#373737;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">This is a free webcast but space is limited so please take a moment to register on this page:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:#373737;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:#373737;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="color:#336699"><span><a href="http://bit.ly/1FeyLY9" style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1FeyLY9</a></span></span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 24pt"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:#373737;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">E</span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">x</span></span><span style="color:#373737;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">plore & learn more about blended librarianship @ <span style="color:#336699"><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/blended-librarianship" style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/blended-librarianship</a></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">John D. Shank</span></div><div><div style="background-color:#fdfdfd">Head of the Boscov-Lakin Information Commons & Thun Library <br>PENN STATE Berks<br>P.O. Box 7009, Tulpehocken Road<br>Reading, PA 19610<br><span style="color:#336699"><a href="callto:(610)-396-6341" style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">(610)-396-6341</a></span></div><div style="background-color:#fdfdfd"><span style="color:#336699"><a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118277457.html" style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><br><img src="https://ucs.psu.edu/service/home/~/?auth=co&id=384435&part=2.2"></a></span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>