• Understanding Creative Commons Licenses

    Blacksburg, United States Blacksburg, VA, United States

    Are you curious about Creative Commons licenses? We will discuss what they signify, why they are valuable, what you can do with them -- and how. This session from the Virginia Tech Library is relevant to anyone who works with information (that's you!) and wants to know more about digital citizenship and sharing for the […]

  • OER in Tenure and Promotion at Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States Blacksburg, VA, United States

    In June 2026, Virginia Tech added open educational resources (OER) and open source software (OSS) to university-level Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. This session will review this clarification, present ways that Virginia Tech faculty have leveraged OER creation or adaptation in promotion dossiers, and provide a guide to sources of available usage data. This usage data […]

  • Virginia Tech Author Stories from the Field: Managing Creation of a Student-Authored Open Textbook

    Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, United States

    Are you looking for ways to collaborate with students to create something useful that can be publicly shared? Join Donna Westfall-Rudd, Program Coordinator of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Graduate Teaching Scholars program and Anita Walz, Assistant Director of the University Libraries' Open Education Initiative as they discuss the process of envisioning, developing, creating, […]

  • Connecting the Opens

    Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, United States

    Join the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty, Corinne Guimont, Anita Walz, and Brandi Pullen will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the […]