The Iron Triangle: The Library and Affordable Education Initiatives

Presented by:

Will Cross, Director of Copyright & Digital Scholarship, North Carolina State University Libraries
Karen McKeown, Director Discovery and Analytics, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Mike Matousek, Director Library Relations, Cengage Learning, Cengage Learning

Session Description:
Access, Quality, and Cost are the “Iron Triangle” representing the trade offs of affordable education resources. You can’t address one side of this “triangle” without impacting the other two. Drawing upon a proprietary survey of over 500 faculty related to OER and other research and survey data from librarians, we explore the library’s role in helping break the triangle – from three different perspectives: the library content provider, an education technology/publisher and a research library director.