OER 101: Beginning and Building Support at Your Institution

Connie Strittmatter is the Strategic Projects Librarian at Fitchburg State University. In her current position, she leads the library’s assessment initiatives, provides training and educational resources regarding copyright, and serves as the liaison to the Business and Engineering Technology departments. She supports Fitchburg State’s open and affordable education initiative by delivering workshops on OER topics and working individually with faculty to incorporate OER into their courses. She is a graduate of the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program and the co-author of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education OER Assessment KPIs Implementation Guide which provides guidance to the 28 public higher education institutions when submitting OER data to the DHE. 

Lauren Slingluff (she/her) is the University Librarian at University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut. Slingluff teaches professional development courses on academic library budgeting practices as well as being sought for workshops and consultation on strategic planning processes. A third generation librarian, she is passionate about access and service and has presented and published on topics of social justice, open education resources, assessment, and leadership practices within academic librarianship. Outside of work, she owns and operates a fiber farm and enjoys a highly caffeinated life.

Emma Wood is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at UMass Dartmouth in Dartmouth, MA. She has worked at UMD in a few different roles including at the law school since 2009. Prior to that, she worked in public libraries while completing her Master's in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston, MA. Emma has an OER Librarianship Certificate from the Open Education Network and co-authored a law review article called "Open Your Casebooks Please: Identifying Alternatives to Langdell's Legacy" in 2022, which discusses alternatives to the traditional casebook.