Great Courses
This collection highlights standout university courses, authoritative MOOCs, and specialized professional training series in Library and Information Studies (LIS). These audiovisual deep-dives and self-paced programs build practical skills and conceptual models across metadata systems, data curation, information policy, and community engagement.
Knowledge Organization, Metadata, and Information Architecture
- Catalogers Learning Workshop: LCSH, LCC, and RDA Training Modules (Library of Congress / Program for Cooperative Cataloging)
- Text Retrieval and Search Engines (Coursera / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Prof. ChengXiang Zhai)
- Information Retrieval Lecture Series (University of Freiburg / Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast)
- Designing Information Architecture Specialization (Coursera / Pabini Gabriel-Petit)
- Knowledge Graphs - Foundations and Applications (openHPI / Hasso Plattner Institute / Prof. Dr. Harald Sack)
Digital Stewardship, Data Management, and Preservation
- Novice to Know-How: Online Digital Preservation Training (Digital Preservation Coalition / The National Archives UK)
- Research Data Management and Sharing (Coursera / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of Edinburgh / Dr. Helen Tibbo & Sarah Jones)
- Digital Collections Stewardship (WebJunction / Washington State University Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation)
- Records Management Training Online Lessons (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - NARA)
Information Law, Open Science, and Scholarly Communication
- Copyright for Educators & Librarians (Coursera / Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill & Emory University / Kevin Smith, Lisa Macklin & Anne Gilliland)
- CopyrightX: Online Lecture Series on Copyright and the Public Domain (Harvard Law School & Berkman Klein Center / Prof. William Fisher)
- A Starter's Guide to Open Science (Coursera / Erasmus University Rotterdam / Dr. Lizette Guzman Ramirez & Dr. Antonio Schettino)
- Library Advocacy Unshushed (edX / University of Toronto / Wendy Newman)
Public Services, Cultural Heritage, and Community Engagement
- LiFT: The Reference Interview (WebJunction / Idaho Commission for Libraries)
- Supercharged Storytimes (WebJunction / OCLC / Saroj Ghoting)
- Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community (edX / KU Leuven / Prof. Fred Truyen)
- Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice Training Course (National Library of Medicine)