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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Colleen Sanders is a Part-Time Reference Librarian at
Clackamas Community College. Please download and read her latest article, “Let
Us Get You Into College: Community College Librarians, Barnes & Noble, and
OER,” here: <a href="https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss3/7/">https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss3/7/</a><span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">From Colleen’s article, “Clackamas Community College (CCC)
became the first Oregon community college to contract with Barnes & Noble
Education (BNED) for bookstore services in July 2018. The college-run
bookstore’s contribution to the general fund was shrinking with each budget
cycle, whereas BNED guaranteed a minimum annual commission of $200,000. This
article describes the steps CCC librarians took to influence the contract after
discovering objectionable language including, but not limited to, faculty use
of Open Educational Resources (OER) and linking to OER in the learning
management system (LMS). The librarians' advocacy has shed light on the need to
ask fundamental questions about the purpose of a college bookstore, especially
at a community college with an equity- and access-driven mission. Is a
bookstore a core student service or a profit-generating enterprise? … This
article intends to support colleagues who find themselves in a similar
situation; a likely scenario, given that the contract includes language
indicating other Oregon colleges may re-use it without a request for proposals.”<span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Please use some of the energy you received from the
conference to learn what Colleen and CCC librarians did by showing up and
asking questions of their administration. Major changes are afoot in the world
of information, and Oregon colleges and libraries now will have more say about their
place in that world because of the work described in this article. <span> </span>Thank you, Colleen!<span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Thank you,</font></div><div><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></div><div><font size="2">OLA Communications</font><br></div></div>