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Sandbox
(old wiki-editing playground)
Welcome to the central hub for Librarian Resources!
This page is for:
1. Community members to learn more about contributing edits to pages on Open Library.
2. Learning how to
apply to join the Open Librarians-In-Training community
and ways to help out.
3. Educating Open Librarians (after training) how to use Librarian tools and permissions.
If you are not yet an Open Librarian-In-Training, you probably want to start here:
https://openlibrary.org/librarians-in-training
Getting Started
Welcome librarians! There are at least 4 ways librarians can help:
Editing
& fixing catalog entries (or enhancing them by adding info like "series" or "reading level")
Merging
or fixing conflated
works
& authors
Creating
a
special collection
of
book carousels
or themed
lists
Writing & improving our documentation (
like this current page
)
Check here for lots of
opportunities
to fix metadata!
Guides
Creating Special Collections
- How you can create your own special collections which show up on openlibrary.org/collections.
Basic Editing of Authors, Works, & Editions
- addresses the most common questions about editing metadata on Open Library. This guide applies to all contributors and is not specific to those with special librarian permissions.
Merging
Authors
,
Works
, &
Editions
- how to combine duplicate records on Open Library.
Internationalization
- Everything you need to translate the Open Library website into other languages.
Librarian Resources
FAQ
(partial duplicate). This page resolves the most common questions about Open Library asked by an Open Library contributor. It should not contain specific information for librarians.
Works and Edition Metadata
. A list (with examples) of field assignments for Works and Editions in Open Library database.
Metadata Standards & Formats
on GitHub
FRBRization
by Karen Coyle
Book Identifiers Guide
on GitHub
Metadata Schema (2019)
Library of Congress
Infogami / Dublin Core Metadata Mapping
Librarian Jargon Definitions
Catalog Implementation (2010)
Historical
Librarian Guidelines
.
Out of date
Adding books to open library (manually)
.
Out of date
. Information already included in
Editing
and
FAQ
. There are several pages with some interesting pages/information to keep/merge:
Using subjects
and
Open Library search cheats
.
Open Library's Data Schema Table
.
Out of date
Third-Party Resources
"
Open Library and Librarianship
" by Zomuana Joute. A paper concerned about defining an open library, its technology, components, what it will have and provide with respect to the case study of www.openlibrary.
Adding Librarians
Promoting
librarians
can only be done by a staff administrator or the Lead Community Librarian.
More
Creating Community Lists
Orphaned Editions
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