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Sometimes open educational resources (OERs) are online collections of texts about a particular subject selected from magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Other times they might be created from scratch by the instructor themselves, or adapted from another OER created elsewhere and remixed especially for the instructor’s class.

After 10 years, the Libraries’ Alt-Textbook program is about more than just massive savings

3/31/2025

The Libraries now offers faculty the future of textbooks through Pressbooks. Everything is more expensive now.The rising costs of groceries, health care, and housing have become a major driver…

NC State Esports Program Director Cody Elsen and Mr. Wuf play a game in the Gaming and Esports Lab at the Hunt Library.

The Libraries levels up with the new Gaming and Esports Lab

8/23/2024

The new space at the Hunt Library builds upon the Libraries’ longstanding commitment to gaming. When the NC State Gaming and Esports Lab opened on the fourth floor of the Hunt Library in January…

American Libraries magazine recognizes the renovation in its annual Library Design Showcase

Hill Library lauded for “open, light-filled” transformation

9/10/2021

The newly renovated D. H. Hill Jr. Library is one of eleven libraries recognized in American Libraries magazine’s 2021 Library Design Showcase. The Hill Library is one of only two university…

The Perfect Pivot

4/10/2021

From online learning to a quaranzine, Libraries expertise helped NC State get through the unprecedented year of the coronavirus pandemic   The spring 2020 semester instantly changed as NC…

Phil Freelon

Renowned architect Phil Freelon dies

7/11/2019

The NC State University Libraries is deeply saddened by the passing of renowned architect Phil Freelon this week. Our Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is honored to house Freelon’s…

Foal displayed in the Immersion Theater.

Veterinary Student Illustrations in Hunt Library Immersion Theater

11/28/2017

Visit the James B. Hunt Jr. Library to see veterinary student artwork from the Spring 2017 Veterinary Illustration Selective VMC 991-29 taught by Dr. Michael K. Stoskopf, Professor of Aquatics,…

Phil Freelon in his Durham office

The man who let the light in

2/10/2017

As architect Phil Freelon’s archives come to the Libraries, a brilliant legacy is preserved When you walk across the Brickyard toward the D. H. Hill Library, you instantly feel how special it is.…