Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

2025 Open and Affordable Community Forum

Cultivating Resilience in Education

November 14, 2025

Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus

KEYNOTE

For the Longest Time: Managing Urgency and Wrangling Calendar Culture in Open Education Labor

Sarah Clinton-McCausland

Sarah Clinton-McCausland, MLIS is a librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park. She supports instructors across the University with using and creating affordable and open educational resources (OERs), and she also serves as the liaison for Journalism, Communication, and Psychology. Beyond UMD, Sarah is a member of the editorial board of Weave: Journal of Library User Experience and the open education advisor for The Pedagogy Lab at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Feminist Futures. Her research interests center on critical approaches to librarianship, information literacy, and scholarly communications, including labor and time management in open education. She and her wife are raising two high-maintenance rescue dogs in the Maryland suburbs.

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