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Free Courses

Open.Michigan
Over 30 free courses from Michigan's School of Information on a variety of library-related courses.
Coursera
Free, live-time courses from various universities worldwide. Some (particularly under the category "Information, Tech, and Design") apply to library and information science.

Merlot Free eTextbooks
About eighteen textbooks available for Library and Information Science.
Python for Informatics
Open-access textbook, Python for Informatics, accompanied by course materials. Teaches Python programming for non-computer scientists.
Noba
Noba is an online platform that provides open, ready-made psychology textbooks and the opportunity to build a textbook from freely available chapters. Users must create an account to use Noba.

ePrints in Library and Information Science
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on librarianship, information science and technology, and related areas. More than 14,500 documents are currently available.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
An extensive dictionary of library-related terms.
DLIST: Digital Library of Information Science & Technology
Maintained by the University of Arizona, "DLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures."
Library and Information Science: A Guide to Online Resources
Compiled by the Library of Congress, this list provides links to free online repositories and other full-text resources.
Libraries and Librarianship : A Collection in Illinois Harvest
Maintained by the University of Illinois, Illinois Harvest is an open-access digital library of books. Mainly historic, it includes "numerous annual reports from libraries in Illinois, including the Chicago Public Library and the Newberry Library; early bulletins and conference proceedings of the American Library Association; numerous publications from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."