The Advanced Certificate and the Advanced Diploma in Applications of ICT in Libraries permit library staff to obtain accreditation for their skills in the use of ICT. Anyone can make use of the materials and assessment is available in variety of modes, including distance learning.

Spreadsheets across the Curriculum Module. Students use spreadsheets to analyze data on software piracy rates in various regions throughout the world

This 2-credit course provides an introduction to research by learning to identify, find, evaluate, incorporate, and cite appropriate sources using a range of research tools. This course is designed for an online class environment and was taught as such in Spring 2020. The course materials have been collaboratively developed by Tacoma Community College librarians, and uses a combination of openly licensed, open access, and library resources.

This book is intended to give the non-expert an overview of standards and best practises related to publishing metadata about works. Its primary focus is metadata from cultural heritage institutions - i.e. GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives and museums).

The book was started to help us get to grips with diverse collections of metadata which we were interested in using to figure out which works have entered the public domain in which different countries. At the OKF, we have been working on the developement of automated calculation to determine the public domain status of a work (see http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators), and we soon realized that we often do not have the necessary metadata to accurately determine whether or not a work is in the public domain. We have obtained data from different sources, e.g. BBC, British National Library, but we need to combine this data in meaningful ways in order to achieve a more comprehensive set of metadata. This required us to engage in the process of vocabulary alignment, removing duplicate entries, understanding whether similar fields actually mean the same thing, and figuring out whether different data models are compatible with each others.

The Washington State Department of Licensing contracted with the University of Washington to create an educational resource to provide an introduction to data stewardship principles. The course breaks down key concepts to familiarize individuals that are new to data stewardship and for those that wish to learn to think of data as an asset.

A brief history and introduction of Library and Information Science.

Reading List:
Bates, M. "The Invisible Substrate of Information Science." https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/substrate.html

Malik, H. "Relationship of Library Science with Information Science. Similarities and Differences." https://www.slideshare.net/Libcorpio/01-ls-vs-is

"Toronto's amazing science fiction library, the Merril Collection, has a new head librarian." http://boingboing.net/2017/08/07/only-a-mother.html

Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen, Jan A.G.M. van Dijk; Using the Internet: Skill related problems in users’ online behavior, Interacting with Computers, Volume 21, Issue 5-6, 1 December 2009, Pages 393–402, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2009.06.005

"Why Page 2 of Google Search Results is the Best Place to Hide a Dead Body." https://digitalsynopsis.com/tools/google-serp-design/

Graham, R. "Long Overdue: Why public libraries are finally eliminating the late-return fine." http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/02/librarians_are_realizing_that_overdue_fines_undercut_libraries_missions.html