UMN Libraries Publishing's new, free textbook is helping students and teachers alike - UMN Libraries News & Events

"The Libraries has routinely published openly-licensed materials to supplement or replace commercial textbooks under the Libraries’ Partnership for Affordable Learning Materials (PALM) program.

“Communications in Practice,” however, was made possible thanks to Give to the Max fundraising efforts in 2023, which raised around $10,000 to replace outdated textbooks that were previously published under an open-license.

“I’m not sure we would’ve been able to create this textbook, if not for that Give to the Max effort. It was extremely important,” said Shane Nackerud, the Libraries’ director of Affordable Learning and Open Education...."