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A curated, openly licensed home for the teaching academic librarians already do — find it, adapt it, and share yours back.
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Search openly licensed lessons, objects, and tools. No account needed to read or borrow anything here.
Use & adapt
It’s openly licensed (mostly CC BY), so you can teach with it, remix it, and make it yours — with credit carried along.
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Contribute your own work and get the credit. Editors curate every record, and optional peer review earns a badge and a letter for your dossier.
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Five categories of openly licensed resources, free to use and adapt.
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Where the people are: communities working the same problems, and groups gathering around events.
Communities of Practice
Ongoing groups working the same problem, like AI literacy or teaching the one-shot. Join in and share what you are trying.
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Conferences, committees, and project teams. Organizers gather their people and the resources presented in one place.
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Small, free, openly licensed tools. More on the way.
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Search 1,800+ openly licensed icons and copy or download them. Free, no attribution required.
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Open the checker →Hi from the Creator
Hi! I’m Christina. For a long time I’d wanted a clean, well-tended place where librarians and knowledge workers who teach could share their work openly, adapt each other’s, and actually get credit for it, with the community and tools most repositories leave out. I only started building it after SUNYLA 2026, where folks responded so warmly to the badges and interactive activities I shared that I figured I’d make a little repository for them. That was June 16–18 at SUNY Brockport, so you can see how fast this came together once I decided it was the right time to build. And, like most projects I start, it took on a life of its own. So, welcome! Feel free to share and send me feedback. I’m excited to see where this goes. 🙂 And yes, I’ll keep the cheesy plant puns coming. Happy blooming! 🌻
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