The Tisch Library OER Steering Committee was formed in 2020 to strategically identify how to grow support for OER at Tufts University. During the Fall 2021 semester, the committee conducted a faculty listening tour (on the model of Temple University https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.80.6.317). Our goal was to learn more about how our faculty choose course materials and their use & perceptions of OER so that we could better understand needs around course materials and plan future outreach & services. This presentation will discuss our process of planning and carrying out the listening tour, including IRB submission, recruitment, and other logistics; our findings from the interviews; and short and long-term next steps we’ve identified to advance our support of OER at Tufts. In addition to questions & discussion at the end of the session, we will incorporate audience participation through real time polls so that audience members can contribute their experience to further the conversation and so we can see similarities and differences across institutions. This session will be primarily of interest to librarians, though administrators & faculty may be interested in hearing about how peers at other institutions select course materials and use OER. It is geared towards attendees or institutions at the beginner to intermediate level of working with OER. After the presentation, attendees will be able to plan a listening tour at their own institution using our presented workflow and be able to incorporate & adapt improvements made to supporting OER at Tufts to their own institutional context.