Hi Deborah,

Thanks for bringing this forward. I’ve been trying to do this at UVic and didn’t have much luck. We use Banner which is what KPU uses. I talked to Rajiv about how this can be done and it is not very difficult, but we would need to get buy in Registrar’s and definitely the Learning and Teaching Centre. In my initial query, I had buy in from Registrars and not the LTC. And later the Registrars removed that acceptance for the project on advice from the LTC.

Recently, I heard that the university is interested to know about how much students spend on textbooks across campus. The project was tasked to two Senate committees. Unfortunately, I’ve not heard back from either on starting this project yet.

A year ago, I started a project documenting the number of textbook titles listed in the Bookstore catalogue and looked to see if we had the titles in the Library. We’ve renewed the project this year. Here’s a summary of the year 1 of the project.

“In conducting the project we identified 327 total titles used in 270 courses during the fall and spring terms. We searched the University Bookstore’s textbook catalog and titles adopted through the Libraries Course Reserves service to identify titles adopted by instructors. In adopting the Libraries licensed resources for their courses, we believe instructors saved UVic students a total of $625,521.91 and in doing so created high impact for students’ access and affordability to a quality education.”

More than you asked for, but thought you might be interested.

Regards

Inba

From: Bcoel <bcoel-bounces@lists.bccampus.ca> On Behalf Of Flewelling, Debra
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2022 3:14 PM
To: bcoel@mail.bccampus.ca
Subject: [Bcoel] Question about identifying no textbook cost at the point of registration

Hello,

Please excuse the cross posting but I want to reach out to those who are not on the canadaoer listserv.

The BC Open Education Librarians group is planning an event for Open Education Week March 6 – 10, 2023  We are planning a session on how courses can be marked as having no textbook cost in their registration system. We know from Marking Open and Affordable Courses that KPU does but we would like to know from others in B.C. if they are doing the same or even in the planning process. It would also be useful to know what registration system you use.

Thank you - your input and time is much appreciated.

Best,

Debra.

Debra Flewelling (she/hers)

Open Education Librarian

604.527.5190

debra.Flewelling@douglascollege.ca

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