# Tagged for OEG Connect: Library Futures | New Research Report: OER in Public Libraries **URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/tagged-for-oeg-connect-library-futures-new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries/7178 **Category:** Sharing Zone **Created:** [December 2, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/tagged-for-oeg-connect-library-futures-new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries/7178 "2024-12-02T20:12:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/cogdog/32/2_2.png) [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog) #### Post date: [December 2, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/tagged-for-oeg-connect-library-futures-new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries/7178/2 "2024-12-02T20:18:54Z")
We’ve had previous discussions here in OEG Connect about OER activity in public libraries, see > [@Request: Specific to Public libraries, but useful for everyone](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/request-specific-to-public-libraries-but-useful-for-everyone/6408): > > Hello! Hoping that this week might help to result in a list of resources that could be put together an easily printed “bookmark” infographic? I’m thinking of both super-user-friendly digital textbooks (such as those of openstax), or free children’s books. A list of ten or so resources that are simple enough for novice users just looking for additional information on a subject to be able to access and navigate comfortably. I was also considering perhaps dividing resources by age or type (science/… @chellreed is here in OEG Connect, might we start some discussions or focus on this interesting research. What do you know of or are interested in terms of open education in public libraries? I was rather pleased to see one of the earlier examples shared through this research was the virtual [Make-IT-Place from the Baltimore Public libraries](https://www.bcpl.info/youth/make-it-place) – this was the very branch I was a patron of as a middle school kid in Baltimore. --- _[View the full topic](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/tagged-for-oeg-connect-library-futures-new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries/7178)._