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Common ground for academic librarians and knowledge workers to share, adapt and cultivate our craft together, and a space to question, test and teach new tools, because none of us can keep up alone.

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Hand-colored botanical illustration of a pink hollyhock, red dahlia, and French marigolds.
From The Instructive Picture Book (1858)  |  Public Domain
Biodiversity Heritage Library

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How BLOOM works

A curated, openly licensed home for the teaching academic librarians already do — find it, adapt it, and share yours back.

Find & browse

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.

Share yours back

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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Openly licensed resources

Five categories of openly licensed resources, free to use and adapt.

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Badges

Credentialed course packages you can import into any LMS.

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Lessons

Teaching plans and activities for librarians and instructors.

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Objects

Interactive, embeddable digital pieces.

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Outreach

Programming toolkits, displays, and email templates.

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Media

Images, infographics, video, audio, and templates.

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Community space

Communities

Where the people are: communities working the same problems, and groups gathering around events.

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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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Groups

Conferences, committees, and project teams. Organizers gather their people and the resources presented in one place.

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Free utilities

The Tool Shed

Small, free, openly licensed tools. More on the way.

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Icon finder

Search 1,800+ openly licensed icons and copy or download them. Free, no attribution required.

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Accessibility checker

Check any web page against WCAG with axe-core, right in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.

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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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