Making Academic Resources Accessible

About This Grant

College libraries are essential in providing access to course materials through reserves collections. These collections ensure equitable access to required materials that are extremely cost prohibitive for students. Current ILSs do not accommodate the fluid structure of a reserves collection or the changing formats of course materials. This grant will fund the development of an innovative module for the Evergreen ILS, an open source ILS used by five Oregon community colleges and over 70 non-academic libraries in the Sage Library System, while refreshing the reserves collections at TVCC and Linn Benton Community College.