Open Educational Resources (OER) enable possibilities for new, more collaborative instructional practices and for more personalized learning experiences—because through open licensing, materials can be used, adapted, localized, and shared across learning communities.

Realizing the potential of OER, school librarians have begun to play an ever-increasing role in enabling its use by curating OER to meet specific teaching and learning needs in their schools and districts. But what do these curation practices look like, and how might they be further enabled within and across schools?

To answer these questions, ISKME, in partnership with Florida State University's School of Information, conducted a national study to explore what OER curation looks like for school librarians who are leading the way in OER curation practice. Based on the findings from this research, and ISKME’s wider OER curriculum work conducted in collaboration with educators since 2013, the LibGuide at hand presents a framework to guide future school librarians in their OER curation practice.

Using This LibGuide

The primary audience for this LibGuide is school librarians who seek to:

• Expand their knowledge bout OER and OER curation
• Advocate for OER and for their roles as instructional leaders
• Train classroom teachers or other school stakeholders on the what, why, and how of OER
• Create more collaborative curriculum development processes with educators and learners
• Initiate conversations with district and school leaders around OER

We encourage school librarians and other users to remix, adapt, and select portions or the entirety of this LibGuide to meet their individual needs.

Accessing this Guide in Other Formats

• A downloadable Google Doc version of this Guide can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/SL-OER-Curation
• A research report on the findings that informed the creation of this Guide will be published in late 2019. Check back here for details.