Ali Versluis
Research & Scholarship Librarian
University of Guelph
Ali is a Research and Scholarship Librarian at the University of Guelph, which resides on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the current treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. In this role, Ali educates and liaises with the university community on open content, licensing, and student-centred pedagogy. Her research interests include academic labour, precarity, and the library leadership industrial complex. A strong believer in the power of collective action, Ali strives to incorporate worker-focused principles into all aspects of her work. She tweets half-baked thoughts and pictures of plants @aliversluis.
Presenting at the following sessions
October 07, 2020
1:45pm
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This session will describe how the closure of our library and resulting lack of access to print course reserves became a catalyst for advocacy and outreach to persuade faculty to replace commercial textbooks with open educational resources (OER) and library-licensed content. Through our efforts to mobilize OER in the past and drawing on research from our 2016 Textbook Broke survey, we’ll discuss how we facilitated cross-team collaboration to mobilize “access as a value,” ultimately developing an approach to faculty outreach, services, and workflows that allowed us to put our values into action.
