Undergraduate outcomes often vary across departments for structural reasons, not just instructional ones. Some students arrive with prior lab exposure, strong conceptual grounding, or familiarity with academic systems. Others do not.
Libraries cannot control every variable, but they can reduce avoidable gaps by building shared infrastructure that supports every course and every student.
These ideas were discussed in the JoVE webinar How Librarians Level the Playing Field in Undergraduate Education Using JoVE, featuring regional sessions with librarians Patrick McManus (University of New South Wales), Sinan Eker (Üsküdar Üniversitesi), and Rachel Sherman (LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport).