The Price is Right- promoting and giving away free textbooks

LITA Forum 2018

Come on down! Learn how promote and give away free textbooks. Our library needed a simple and functional way to distribute OER textbooks created as part of the Wise Open Textbook Initiative, which offered faculty a stipend to develop or adopt OER textbooks. This presentation introduces OERx, a textbook delivery system, built using Modx and Adopt an OER Textbook suggestion site to aid faculty with selecting OER textbooks. The OERx software is free to all and you’ll learn how to get it for your library.

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2. The Price is Right Promoting and giving away free textbooks All images from unsplash.com or self taken screen captures.
3. Come on down! Learn how promote and give away free textbooks. This presentation provides an introduction to: • OERx: built using MODX. • Adopt-an-OER Textbook: offer faculty OER options. The OERx software is free to all and you’ll learn how to get it for your library.
4. Roy Degler Digital Services Librarian Oklahoma State University I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
5. https://atyourlibrary.com
6. Background
7. Why?
8. Why? Money We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess
9. Why? Money Money Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. Frank A. Clark
10. Challenges
11. Challenges The Product
 
 I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. Joshua Lederberg
12. Challenges The Product
 Production
 
 Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. Gordon B. Hinckley
13. Challenges The Product
 Production
 Distribution
 To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label. Drake
14. Attempts
15. Attempts Product/Production • Completion Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson
16. Attempts Product/Production • Completion • Quality I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap. R. Lee Ermey
17. Attempts Product/Production • Completion • Quality • Format Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules . . . Billie Joe Armstrong
18. Attempts Product/Production • Completion • Quality • Format Distribution • OMP • PressBooks In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Alan Perlis
19. Lessons Learned
20. Lessons Learned Quality Control
21. Quality Control Standard Template Lessons Learned Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
22. Quality Control Standard Template Produce Books
 
 Lessons Learned To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me. Fumio Sasaki
23. Quality Control Standard Template
 Produce Books
 Custom Platform
 Lessons Learned If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle
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25. Solutions
26. Standardization Solution #1
27. Template & Production The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. Bjarne Stroustrup
28. OERx Solution #2
29. Why MODX? Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. Mark Twain
30. Why OERx? It's simple and it's cheap. Shawn Amos
31. OERx Solution #2 Demonstration Site Customization Content Distribution
32. OERx (Demo Site) If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. Nate Silver
33. ePress Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal. George Ayittey
34. OERx Solution #2 Demonstration Site Customization Content Distribution
35. Bootstrap You don't have to be a genius … to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. Michael Dell
36. Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Wells Site-wide Customization
37. Site-wide Customization Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead
38. Site-wide Customization Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead
39. Site-wide Customization Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Wells Splash Header Splash Image Site Search Box Splash Content Splash Tagline
40. DIY Customization 'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines. Neil deGrasse Tyson
41. DIY Customization To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me. Fumio Sasaki
42. DIY Customization No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. Ken Thompson
43. Reusable Chunks My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans. Matt Bomer
44. Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing! P. T. Barnum Reusable Chunks
45. I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part. Patti LuPone Featured Book Featured Author Site Search Box Reusable Chunks
46. OERx Solution #2 Demonstration Site Customization Content
47. Authors Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors …or anything else. Nigel Barker
48. Authors Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors …or anything else. Nigel Barker
49. Authors We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. Tim O'Reilly
50. Authors Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. Peter Jurasik
51. Books Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
52. Books I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright
53. Books There's so much more to a book than just the reading. Maurice Sendak
54. Books No one person is the author of a Bourne film. The truth is it's a coalition of people. Paul Greengrass
55. OERx Solution #2 Demonstration Site Customization Content Distribution
56. MODXCloud Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department. David Packard
57. Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso OERx Public Snapshot Snapshots
58. Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso OERx Public Snapshot 
 Create a cloud with OERx installed
59. OERx Download https://oerx.atyourlibrary.com/documentation/ getting-started/installation/
60. Adopt a Text Solution #3
61. Affordable Louisiana If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. Wilson Mizner
62. OERx (Demo Site) Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. George A. Moore
63. OERx (Demo Site) Originality is undetected plagiarism. William Ralph Inge
64. Standard Template OERx Customizable Content Free Adopt a Text Review Things are not always #000000 and #FFFFFF.
65. Questions A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee