1. The Open Library at AU: Supporting Open
Access and Open Educational Resources
Colin Elliott & Elaine Fabbro

2. Introduction
• Libraries and Open Resources
• Open Library Conceptually
• Information Literacy and Open Resources
• Site Development
• Site Content
• Questions

3. Framing the Problem

4. The Open Library Conceptually
• Principles of access and the
democratization of knowledge
• Benefits across the academy

5. Information Literacy Skills
Development

6. Site Development
• Started alongside re-design of Library site
• Flexible structure
• Extensive tagging
• Low maintenance

7. Current database

8. Website-database

9. Adding Content

10. Open Library-database

11. Site Content
• Open Access not new for AU
• Types of content
– Open Access
– Free
– Hybrid
• Feeds back to Library site as well

18. Colin Elliott, Manager, Web Projects & Services
(coline@athabascau.ca)
Elaine Fabbro, Acting Director
(elainef@athabascau.ca)