Librarians Portal

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Welcome to the central hub for Librarian Resources

Guides

• Editing Open Library. This page resolves the most common questions about editing asked by an Open Library contributor. It should not contain specific information for librarians.
  
• Contributing Towards Internationalization on GitHub. 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
  
• Overview of Identifiers on GitHub
  
• Metadata Schema (2019)
  
• Library of Congress
  
• Infogami
  
• Librarian Jargon Definitions
  
• Catalog Implementation (2010)
  information already included in Editing and FAQ. There are several pages. Interesting pages/information to keep/merge: Using subjects and Open Library search cheats.
  
• Some Library Jargon Explained (Hopefully)

Historical

• Librarian Guidelines. Out of date
  
• Adding books to open library (manually). Out of date
  
• Open Library's Data Schema Table. Out of date

Third-Party Resources

• "Open Library and Librarianship" (PDF) 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.