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The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú is always looking for ways to ensure students have access to the best course material. With textbook prices on the rise, some students have decided to forgo buying textbooks. As an active contributor to student success, the  started the  in 2016 to help faculty offer free or affordable course material. For the upcoming year, 10 grants are being awarded.

The  provides UK instructors with assistance in finding or creating educational material that best suits their pedagogical needs and effectively reduces their students’ financial burdens. In past years, the program has saved over 5,500 enrolled students around $790,935 or about $143 per student.

The 2019 round of the Alternative Textbook Grant Program offers two types of grants. The $1,500 category is for faculty who want to replace traditional commercial textbooks with open educational resources (OER), free online content and/or UK Libraries’ licensed information resources for their courses. The other category, a $2,500 grant, enables instructors to create openly licensed educational material that can be reused by other instructors anywhere.

The recipients of this year’s 10 grants are:

• , Department of Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering;
•  and , Department of Linguistics and Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Arthur Cammers, Susan Odom and Ashley Steelman, Department of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù·½Èë¿Ú in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• , Department of Retailing and Tourism Management in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment;
• , Department of Communication, in the College of Communication and Information;
• , Department of Integrated Strategic Communication in the College of Communication and Information;
• , Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• , Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences in the College of Medicine;
• , Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Science; and
• , in the College of Nursing.

UK Libraries maintains a  that discusses the reasons for and benefits of using alternative textbooks. Faculty interested in adopting or creating alternative textbooks are welcome to contact their  or Adrian Ho for consultation.

The major research library in the Commonwealth and a member of the , UK Libraries comprises eight major facilities spanning campus: , , , , , ,  and the . UK Libraries also manages the .