Ben Jahre
Ben is a member of the Libraries’ Research & Instruction team, teaching Information Literacy classes across the curriculum and providing research help to students, faculty, and staff. Ben oversees the Libraries’ collection strategies, which includes book, e-book, and streaming video acquisition as well as the management of electronic resources such as databases, journal subscriptions, and digital archive collections. Ben also leads the Libraries’ Course Affordability Initiative, including the student Open Education Fellowship and a grant program encouraging faculty to consider affordable textbooks and other materials for their courses.
Selected presentations and professional development
- ER&L 2024: “Go/No-Go: Performing an Accessibility Audit and Coding Results in FOLIO”
- Awarded $22,000 Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts (PCLA) Grant, 2022: “Lafayette College Libraries Open Education Fellowship”
- ER&L 2020: “Anticipated Impact of Open Educational Resources on Library Collecting Practices”
- ER&L 2019: “‘I Have the Same Combination on My Luggage’: Managing Library Passwords with LastPass”
- “Landing your first academic job: a cohort study of recent graduates from the UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science,” ALA 2014 with Jason Reed and Alexander Carroll
Selected publications
Selected professional engagements
- Lafayette Student Affairs Committee
- FOLIO ERM SIG (Electronic Resource Management Special Interest Group)
- Campus Partner for ALPa (Affordable Learning Pennsylvania)
- Voting Member of EAST (Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust)