Connect and Communicate Presents I Want It That Way: Student and Faculty Attitudes Toward Ebook Piracy

June 5, 2023

by Alex K.

Presented by

Haley Dittbrenner & Rob Sieczkiewicz

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Do you know how common digital piracy is on your campus? Are you curious about why students use pirate sites to download eBooks, and what their instructors think about this? In this interactive conversation, we will discuss the findings of our survey of Susquehanna University students and faculty, and explore attendees’ attitudes toward and experience with shadow libraries. Finally, we will conclude with a conversation about how these findings about the use of pirate sites might be used to inform library Open Educational Resources (OER) programs.

Haley Dittbrenner is a junior student at Susquehanna University. She studies creative and professional writing as well as publishing and editing. She currently works as a student manager at the Blough-Weis Library. She wants to make a career out of open access and publishing librarianship. Rob Sieczkiewicz is Associate Professor and Director of the Blough-Weis Library at Susquehanna University. Previously he was a digital scholarship and instruction librarian, and before that a university archivist. His research interests include digital humanities, information literacy, and open access.

We will mute participants on entry into the Zoom room. We will mute participants on entry into the Zoom room. We will enable Zoom’s Live Transcription feature during the session, and it will be recorded and available on the C&CS YouTube page afterwards.

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This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, Governor.

Support is also provided by the College and Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association. —