#Textbookbroke: from Student Cost Surprises to Student Success

• Continue gathering, analyzing, and sharing data through the College Library’s Syllabus Review Project
   
• Identify affordability champions among our faculty and partner with them to encourage their colleagues to adopt similar cost-conscious practices
   
• Continue actively encouraging and supporting faculty in adopting Open Education Resources
   
• Identify courses that may disproportionately raise materials costs for first-year students as a focus for affordability advocacy and partnership
   
• Revise library collection development practices to more readily support the integration of library materials into courses
   
• F&M faculty and College Library employees are united by a shared concern for materials affordability: an opportunity to expand the College Library’s role as an affordability partner!

Ryan Nadeau
Research and Student Success Librarian
rnadeau@fandm.edu
717-358-3896

For a complete review of our affordability studies of both F&M students and faculty, please see:

Barnes, C.A., Vine, S., & Nadeau, R. (2024) Assessing textbook affordability before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of student and faculty surveys. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 50(2).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102864