Resilience and Open Education: Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime

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Join us for a personal and thought-provoking session featuring Dr. Tetiana Kolesnykova, Director of the Scientific Library with the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (Ukraine), with live translation by Mira Buist-Zhuk, Academic Information Specialist with the University of Groningen Library (Netherlands). Both are members of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). Discover how librarians in Ukraine are using open education as a tool to stay connected with the world and support their communities during the ongoing war. This session will focus on Tetiana’s experiences, the resilience of her colleagues, and how collaborative, practical solutions can make a difference.

Expect a conversation about the evolving challenges Ukrainian librarians face in their daily lives, with opportunities to share ideas and understand the cultural nuances of offering meaningful support.

Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 pm EET (Eastern European Time)
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Registration is required. This event will be recorded and shared with all registrants as well as posted on the CCCOER website at Resilience and Open Education: Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime – CCCOER

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Resilience and Open Education Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime

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*Please note that the dynamic realities of war may impact session logistics. Organizers will keep registrants informed of any changes to the date or time.

Questions? Email cccoer@oeglobal.org

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This webinar is a collaboration by the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), a node of Open Education Global and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), a part of SPARC Europe.

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I cannot recommend more attending this webinar. Tetiana and the ENOEL librarians were recognized in 2022 with an Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Resilience category.

We were fortunate during Open Education Week 2023 to record an OEG Voices podcast with @Tetiana and @Paola and translator extraordinaire @Mira

OEG Voices 051: Tetiana Kolesnykova on the Open Resilience of Librarians

We were introduced here in OEG Connect to Tetiana in June 2022 via a message from Paola plus a later shared translated letter “Open Education developments in Ukraine in times of crisis: A librarian’s perspective”

Without a doubt, this experience and learning what the open educators in and around Ukraine have done and continue to do is one of the most inspiring stories I have heard in my career.

Again, make plans to tune into this CCCOER webinar.

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Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime

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Here’s a small thing you can do. In this CCCOER webinar, @Tetiana shared the open textbooks that USUST has published at https://e-book.ust.edu.ua/.

As part of the activities during (well before and after too), Open Education Week we are asking everyone to share open assets by make additions to the OERs collected at OER Commons and open education related items placed on the OER World Map.

In a few minutes, I added one title from USUST to OER Commons, see how it displays the OE Week badge for an act done as part of this effort, which indicates it is part of the curated collection we are building this year.

If you are interested in adding more of these USUST open assets or others you think are worth sharing, here is how to get started with this year’s OE Week campaign to make a global contribution to OER Commons.