In this session for ASERL, Jeff Gallant describes how the Georgia legislature funded a new initiative within the University System of Georgia (USG) to reduce the cost of textbooks to USG students. The USG reached out to Georgia’s Virtual Library, GALILEO, to take on the new initiative, titled Affordable Learning Georgia. This library-driven initiative has saved students an estimated $16.5 million in textbook costs in Academic Years 2015-2016 through promoting the use of open educational resources (OER), no-cost materials, and library-subscribed materials through its Textbook Transformation Grants program and a partnership with eCore, Georgia’s Core Curriculum Online.
