58 Library and Information Science
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Library and Information Science: A Guide to Online Resources (Library of Congress) provided by Library of Congress (licenses vary).
Free, full-text resources in the field of library and information science for use by librarians, library technicians, and students provided by the Library of Congress.
Courses
Mantra: Research Data Management Training by University of Edinburgh (CC BY).
MANTRA is a free, online non-assessed course with guidelines to help you understand and reflect on how to manage the digital data you collect throughout your research. It has been crafted for the use of post-graduate students, early career researchers, and also information professionals.
Textbooks
Academic Integrity by Ulrike Kestler (CC BY-NC-SA).
An interactive approach to conveying the values of academic integrity, clarifying the meaning of plagiarism, and introducing the basics of citations, quoting and paraphrasing.
Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship – 2nd Edition by Martin Frické (CC BY).
Courses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Librarianship in ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information (MLIS) degrees are rare. We have all been surprised by ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models. Generative AI is an important new area for librarianship. It is also developing so rapidly that no one can really keep up. Those trying to produce AI courses for the MLIS degree need all the help they can get. This book is a gesture of support. It consists of about 100,000 words on the topic, with a 4-500 item bibliography.
Cataloging with MARC, RDA, and Classification Systems by Reed Hepler and David Horalek (CC BY-NC).
This book goes over a wide range of cataloging schemata, tools, and norms. It presents a concise but thorough view of the basics of library cataloging practice.
Contemporary Issues in Collection Management by Kelsey Cameron, Chelsea Chiovelli, Danielle Deschamps, Marty Grande-Sherbert, Sadaf Hakimizadeh, Andrew Ip, Olesya Komarnytska, et al. (CC BY-NC).
This edited, openly licensed, textbook examines several different issues in collection management. Topics covered include physical vs. digital collections; the impact of BookTok on collections; challenges to 2SLGBTQ+ collections ; ebook licensing; ebook pricing; accessible collections for users with physical disabilities; accessible collections for users with invisible disabilities; “just in time”/demand-driven acquisitions; climate change and collections and research data collections.
The Discipline of Organizing – 4th Professional Edition by Robert J. Glushko (CC BY-NC).
Organizing is a fundamental issue in library and information science, computer science, systems analysis, informatics, law, economics, and business. This book analyzes these different contexts and disciplines to propose a discipline of organizing that applies to all of them; the 4th edition builds a bridge between organizing and data science. It reframes descriptive statistics as organizing techniques, expands the treatment of classification to include computational methods, and incorporates many new examples of data-driven resource selection, organization, maintenance, and personalization.
Dublin Core Quick Start by Caitlin Mathesis, Bailey VandeKamp, Micah Bateman (CC BY).
This book is designed as a quick introduction to authoring metadata using basic elements from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Finding Balance: Collaborative Workflows for Risk Management in Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online by Carrie Hintz, Melanie T. Kowalski, Sarah Quigley, and Jody Bailey (CC BY-NC).
Digitizing rare and unique historical documents so they can be shared online is mission-critical work for most cultural heritage institutions, but it can be difficult to complete this work, especially intellectual property rights management, at a scale that matches user demand. The authors of this open educational resource offer guidance for creating scalable, cross-functional workflows using a risk-management approach that increases efficiency and distributes responsibility for rights assessment work more equitably across stakeholders. It includes advice for navigating knowledge gaps, building an engaged team with the right skillsets, reimagining workflows, and rethinking traditional archival processing workflows to build capacity for rights analysis during arrangement and description. Each chapter includes a helpful exercise for implementing this guidance in your own institution.
Got a minute? Instruction tune-up for time pressed librarians by alisonhicks0 and LIS Students; edited by Alison Hicks (CC BY-NC-SA).
No time to catch up? Try these short and informative essays that have been written on a wide variety of library instruction topics and with the busy practitioner in mind.
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT) by Cardiff University Library Service (CC BY).
Health Sciences Collection Development: An Overview of Fundamental Knowledge and Practices – 2nd Edition by Karen H. Gau and Iris Kovar-Gough (CC BY-NC).
This work was created by members of the Medical Library Association’s Collection Development Caucus to provide librarians with key concepts about health sciences collection development. The chapters provide an overview of the responsibilities and tasks involved in the development and management of health sciences collections; it is recommended that readers refer to the references and further reading sections in each chapter for a more detailed look at each topic.
High Impact Instructional Librarianship by Mirah J. Dow, Amanda Hovious, and Corey Ptacek (CC BY)
The purpose of this new OER textbook titled High Impact Instructional Librarianship is to address what to teach and how to teach information literacy skills to library patrons of all ages and with many kinds of information needs. This OER is intended to facilitate and guide pre- and in-service librarians to know and use theory and models from many academic disciplines to inform practices, develop excellent instructional design skills, and express high confidence as instructional librarians no matter what position they hold in any library type.
International Libraries: An Open Textbook by Amanda B. Reed, Sarah M.H. Johnson, Heather Severson, Michael Green, Melissa L. Rubin, Anne Windholz, Celia J. Dehais et al. (CC-BY-NC-SA)
This resource is about the libraries and the field of librarianship in non-North American countries around the world. Each chapter in this volume includes a profile of a featured country’s variety of libraries, its library histories, its systems of library education, and its library practices, laws, and professional associations. Graduate students in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science authored these chapters for the LIS 503: International Librarianship course during the summer term of 2019. The text was developed under the a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) as an open educational resource that can be adapted for future sections of the International Librarianship course or for similar courses offered in library and information programs at other institutions.
Introduction to Library and Information Science by Reed Hepler and David Horalek (CC BY-NC).
This book explores the history, present, and future of library science, both in theory and in practice. It examines the place of the librarian as arbiter of information access in a constantly-changing and modernizing global community.
International Libraries: An Open Textbook is a reference sourcebook about the libraries and the field of librarianship in non-North American countries around the world. Each chapter in this volume includes a profile of a featured country’s variety of libraries, its library histories, its systems of library education, and its library practices, laws, and professional associations. Graduate students in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science authored these chapters for the LIS 503: International Librarianship course during the summer term of 2019. The text was developed under the a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) as an open educational resource that can be adapted for future sections of the International Librarianship course or for similar courses offered in library and information programs at other institutions.
Peer Review: A Critical Primer and Practical Course by Emily Ford (CC-BY-SA).
This book is a self-paced, open access training in peer review. In eight modules it asks readers to engage in a variety of activities to learn the who, what, why, and how of peer review. It is geared to library professionals, library school students, or other academic professionals who must understand and/or engage with the peer-review process.
Power, Profit, and Privilege: Problematizing Scholarly Publishing by Amanda Makula (CC BY-NC).
This open course introduces students to the scholarly communications system — with particular emphasis on the scholarly journal publishing mechanism — wherein new information is created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved.
Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick and Will Cross (CC BY-NC).
The intersection of scholarly communication librarianship and open education offers a unique opportunity to expand knowledge of scholarly communication topics in both education and practice. Open resources can address the gap in teaching timely and critical scholarly communication topics—copyright in teaching and research environments, academic publishing, emerging modes of scholarship, impact measurement—while increasing access to resources and equitable participation in education and scholarly communication.
Videos
The British Library YouTube Channel by The British Library (CC BY).
Videos from the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.
