ROI – Investing In Our People Through The Affordable Learning

LOUISiana Initiative

LCTCS Libraries and LOUIS

National Library Week

April 10 – 16, 2016

How do libraries transform?

• Build COMMUNITY - libraries engage with the community of learners to create best practices

• Provide ACCESS – libraries provide collections with thousands of accurate, authoritative resources along with the expertise of knowledgeable, professional librarians

• Promote LITERACY – libraries assist students in developing literacy skills necessary in college and as members of the larger global community

• Protect RIGHTS- respect students’ privacy and right to seek information

• INNOVATE – libraries adapt to new technologies and pedagogies

• GATOR Library - established fall 2013• Created from the ground up - first academic library in

Louisiana to have all resources online• Membership in the LOUIS consortium initiative gives

students access to hundreds of thousands of online resources - 24/7

• Cost savings – over $800,000 each year • Time and staff savings – LOUIS Support – priceless: I.T.

expertise, communication, professional development opportunities

How the library transforms …

• “The library has been an area of resources available to me at my fingertips and provides me with the space I need to study to achieve my goals.” Olga

• “Nice place to come to study and get work caught up.” Ciera M.

• “…The library offers sources that help students with research projects, a group study room, and a librarian that guides the students…quiet area… helps students excel academically.” Aleice W.

LOUIS?

• What LOUIS means to Louisiana's Academic Librari

es

• Introduction to LOUIS eResources

LOUIS Libraries are Leaders…..

Collaborated in 1992 to established LOUIS• Not by Mandate• Leading the strategic direction • Leading collaboration on shared needs– Technology, Expertise, Resources

• Leading collaboration on affordable learning solutions

• Leading solutions that have tremendous ROI

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16$0

$5,000,000

$10,000,000

$15,000,000

$20,000,000

$25,000,000

$30,000,000

$35,000,000

$40,000,000

$45,000,000

$3,910,859 $3,167,292 $3,174,384 $3,949,184 $4,089,271 $4,091,422 $4,260,859

$14,324,364$16,021,872

$20,686,692 $20,907,420 $21,534,642

$38,302,575$40,217,704

LOUIS Costs vs Cost outside LOUIS 2009 - 2016All Services

LOUIS Budget Cost Savings

Return on Investment (ROI): 8:1

Savings in FY16: $35,966,845

Savings since 1992: $328,735,232

LCTCS College Total Cost Outside LOUIS Total Cost Via LOUIS BRCC $951,989.71 $104,154.30BPCC $899,053.93 $92,398.89CLTCC $192,514.33 $22,951.74Delgado $1,175,974.40 $180,221.14Fletcher $858,051.32 $41,534.77LDCC $855,452.85 $52,023.46NTCC $858,029.69 $40,613.10Nunez $864,071.95 $38,972.14RPCC $846,865.97 $40,166.48SLCC $881,124.80 $78,076.26Sowela $877,559.99 $47,560.54

Total Cost to LCTCS Outside LOUIS vs Via LOUIS $9,260,688.95 $738,672.82

“Despite its high value, excellent savings for institutions and students, and high member satisfaction – and despite its strong competitive position - LOUIS could disappear if state higher education officials decided funding library information systems was not important, or at least not as important as other claims on scarce higher education public funding. As we’ve discussed, this wouldn’t be entirely rational as it might make the overall set of library information system assets in the state MUCH more expensive (as each buys their own solutions with some mixture of public and private dollars) and, as a result, make schools much LESS likely to meet accreditation standards.”

~LUMA Consulting LOUIS Business Review

Affordable Learning Louisiana

• Why do we care?• National Climate• National/State/University Initiatives• Louisiana Strategies• Program Outcomes to Date• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,

Threats

Serving Students in Need

National Data

State Initiatives

Community College Example

Strategy 1: Open Educational Resources

Survey Says

Are you familiar with open access (OA) publishing or open educational resources (OER)? Some examples are OpenStax Textbooks, Merlot, Knowledge Unlatched, OER Commons, DOAJ, DOAB.

Strategy 2: Curriculum Driven Acquisitions

Program Outcomes: Round 1Site Amount Reimbursed Date implemented Maximum ROI Students

impactedEstimated student

cost savings Proposal type

LE Fletcher $788.79 Fall 2015 $16,451.61 60 $17,240.40 a

LE Fletcher $250.00 Fall 2015 $38,750.00 310 $39,000.00 c

LSU $1,003.56 Fall 2015 $14,445.94 337 $15,449.50 a

LSUHSCNO $975.25 Fall 2015 $15,825.93 123 $16,801.18 a

LSUHSCS $964.69 Summer 2015 $12,914.21 142 $13,878.90 a

Nicholls $835.60 Fall 2015 $(544.90) 6 $290.70 d

SJS $1,487.50 Fall 2015 $2,212.50 33 $3,700.00 d

Tulane Law $1,000.00 Fall 2015 $400.00 20 $1,400.00 d

UNO $739.15 Fall 2015 $7,833.83 281 $8,572.98 a

UNO $500.00 Fall 2015 $13,126.55 68 $13,626.55 c

Xavier $1,000.00 Fall 2015 $6,680.00 30 $7,680.00 d

Totals $ 9,544.54 $128,095.67 1,410 $137,640.21

SWOT

• OER Community Contacts • Evaluate survey results• Round 2 Funding• Learning with LOUIS, library engagement• Program sustainability, assessment metrics• CDA Pilot• Build Capacity, Long-Term Sustainability• Bookstore relationships

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Estimated Cost Savings Fall 2015

SiteSite Amount

Reimbursed

Date implemente

d

Maximum ROI

Students

impacted

Estimatedstudent cost

savings

Proposal Type

Fletcher

$788.79 Fall 2015 $16,451.61

60 $17,240.40

eBooks

Fletcher

$250.00 Fall 2015 $38,750.00

310 $39,000.00

OERs

Totals $1038.79

$55,201.61

370 $56,240.40 *Data from Affordable Learning LOUISiana, January 2016

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Benefitting Courses Freshmen Studies

Music Appreciation

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EBSCOhost Ebooks

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• College Success (from Saylor Academy open Textbooks

(http://www.saylor.org/books/)

Available asHTML | PDF | DOCx

Open Educational Resource (OER)

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Students Impacted

Spring 2016Course Date utilized

Studentsimpacted

Proposal Type

Music Appreciation

Spring 2016 153 eBooks

Freshman Studies

Spring 2016 100 OERs

Total 253

*Data from Fletcher IR Department, March 2016

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• No out-of pocket $$$$$• Resources accessed anywhere,

24/7

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• Future students benefit from initial investment of $1038.79 with subsequent utilization of materials

Maximizing Impact!!

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ROI and Estimated Student Cost Savings

Face to Face/Online Classes• English • Literature• Work Force• Language• Nursing

• Allied Health • History

• Social Sciences

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Buy in and Collaboration

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Number of Books found

in e-book collections

Number of Classes

utilizing books

Number of Students impacted

Approximate Cost per book

SAVINGS to students

15 61 1830 $17.67 $32,336

Magnolia Library BRCC Faculty Library Committee:Worked with the library faculty to create a list of resources that are used in our English and Literature classes, totally owned by BRCC in our e-book collections. Faculty will choose these books as resources in their classes instead of requiring students to use and purchase those that are not owned

*Next StepsNCCER-Welding

Breakdown By DivisionCertified eLearning Courses

By Division

Business, Social Science, and HistoryLiberal ArtsNursing and Allied HealthSTEMOther

Certified eLearning Faculty by Division

Business, Social Science, and HistoryLiberal ArtsNursing and Allied HealthSTEMOther

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Just the Facts

Spr 13 Fall 13 Spr 14 Fall 14 Spr 15 Fall 150

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

How Many eLearning Courses

Are Students Taking?

1 2 3 4

Growth in eLearning14/15 15/16

Unduplicated Students 3106 3389Number of Courses 178 206

Academic YearFall/Spring

Data from BRCC IR

Data from LCTCS

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The BRCC e-learning committee has formed an OER subcommittee.

The subcommittee is chaired by a Reference Librarian Other members include Faculty from:

BiologyChemistry

MathSpeech Communication

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The committee has met once and reviewed possible OER resources including:• Merlot• Rice University Open Stax• Kahn Academy• University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library• Lumen learning• Knowledge Unlatched

The Plan: The committee will work with LOUIS to secure stipend funds in order to develop a core of instructors interested in adopting OER resources for their courses.

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Q & A

Presenters• Cynthia Ann Blaschke, MS, MLIS, Librarian and Systems

Administrator, L.E. Fletcher Technical Community College

• Joanie Chavis, MLIS, Dean for Learning Resource Center, Baton Rouge Community College

• Teri Oaks Gallaway, MM, MSI, LOUIS Library Consortium Analyst

• Margaret Keller, MSIS, Director of Library Services, Northshore Technical Community College

• Sara Zimmerman, MLIS, Executive Director – LOUIS