| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 69.22 |
| Liaison | Leslie Raucher |
| Submission Date | Dec. 11, 2023 |
Barnard College
IN-41: Textbook Affordability
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 0.50 |
Does the institution host a peer-to-peer textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project?:
A brief description of the textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project:
The Barnard FLI Partnership Library is a part of the Barnard Library dedicated to lending textbooks to and in collaboration with first-generation and/or low-income undergraduate students. We update the collection based on use data and curriculum assessment. We add language learning textbooks as well as expensive textbooks and anthologies required for core courses for Barnard majors. The goals of the collection are to support and decrease stress for Barnard FLI students by improving access to the Barnard curriculum and streamlining services. With streamlined Library services for ease of use, FLI students can locate, request for FLI Pick-Up, and renew materials through CLIO (the Library catalog); pick up materials off the shelves on the 4th floor and self-checkout with the app or 2nd floor kiosk; ask us questions at the 2nd Floor or Virtual Circulation & Help Desks; return materials to the Barnard Library book drop; and ensure limitless renewals (for all circulating Columbia University Libraries materials) and fine-free borrowing (of all Barnard Library materials).
The foundation and sustenance of the Barnard FLI Partnership Library are grounded in four values:
Equity: This collection is created by and for first-generation and/or low-income students to partially address an equity gap and work toward low-cost or no-cost access to courses. We reserve semester-long borrowing privileges to low-income and/or first-generation students.
Partnership: The Barnard FLI Partnership Library was founded as and continues to be a collaboration between the Barnard Library, Columbia FLI Network student organization, and Barnard SGA. The collection is also a sibling collection to the Columbia FLI Partnership Library, located on the fourth floor of Butler Library. The creation of both collections was made possible by the work of student organizers and their initiation of a collaboration between Barnard Library and the Columbia University Library IT department team.
Privacy: It is crucial to us that students can check out materials from the collections without being required to publicly identify themselves as low-income and/or first-generation students.
Accessibility: We want to ensure that the process of checking out a book from the Barnard FLI Partnership Library is as efficient and simple as possible.
Does the institution provide incentives for academic staff that explicitly encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks?:
A brief description of the incentives to encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks:
Website URL where information about the textbook affordability incentives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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