60 Library and Information Science
Collections
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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.
Monographs
3D Data Creation to Curation: Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation edited by Jennifer Moore, Adam Rountrey, and Hannah Scates Kettler (CC BY-NC).
This resource collects the efforts of the Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation (CS3DP) initiative—a large practicing community of librarians, researchers, engineers, and designers—to move toward establishment of shared guidelines, practices, and standards. Using a collaborative approach for standards development that promotes individual investment and broad adoption, this group has produced a work that captures the shared preservation needs of the whole community.
Fostering Change: A Team-Based Guide by Brianna Marshall, Dani Brecher Cook, and Cinthya Ippoliti (open access publication; no license declared)
Developed with leadership from ACRL’s New Roles and Changing Landscapes Committee, Fostering Change is intended to be a practical tool for teams immersed in the labor of leading change in the library and on campus. This guide takes you and your team step-by-step through understanding change, building engagement, and creating and instituting the change, allowing you to pick and choose different aspects of the process that resonate most. It’s intended to help place people at the center of every change process and give individuals across academic libraries the tools to spark, lead, and sustain change, no matter their organizational position. Fostering Change is packed with exercises, templates, and resources to use as you plan and execute change.
Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison (CC BY-NC).
Developed over the course of a year with leadership from the Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC) and with a high degree of community involvement, Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future is a powerful new action-oriented research agenda that encourages the community to make the scholarly communications system more open, inclusive, and equitable by outlining trends, encouraging practical actions, and clearly identifying the most strategic research questions to pursue. This report is an important contribution to ACRL’s core commitment to equi