Civic Switchboard Guide
  • Introduction
  • About
  • Context and Concepts
    • An incredibly condensed look at the development of open civic data in the United States
    • Ways of thinking about data: Open data, civic data
    • Defining a data intermediary
    • Where do libraries fit in?
    • Selected Resources
  • Engaging Partners
    • Building libraries into civic data partnerships
    • Finding partners in your ecosystem
    • Common barriers to getting started
    • Selected Resources
  • Understanding Your Ecosystem
    • Mapping your Ecosystem
    • Measuring Health and Capacity
    • Understanding Community Data Needs
    • Selected Resources
  • Library Roles
    • Connecting data users
    • Connecting data producers
    • Showing the importance of civic data
    • Developing civic data literacy
    • Advocating for ethical, responsible, and accessible civic data
    • Making civic data more usable
    • Providing expertise on data management
    • Creating civic data
    • Using civic data
    • Publishing civic data
    • Archiving civic data
    • Increasing the library's capacity to do all of the above
    • Selected Resources
  • Maintaining Momentum
    • Finding resources to support civic data work
    • Support networks and communities of practice
    • Institutionalizing
    • Selected Resources
  • Case Studies 2019
    • Alaska State Library, Juneau, AK
    • Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library, Charlotte, NC
    • Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX
    • Pioneer Library System, Ontario County, NY
    • Providence Public Library, Providence, RI
    • Queens Public Library, Queens, NY
    • Robert L. Bogomolny Library at the University of Baltimore, MD
    • Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN
    • Western New York Library Resources Council, Western NY
  • Case Studies 2020
    • The School of Library and Information Sciences Library at NCCU, Durham, NC
    • The University of Chicago Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, Chicago, IL
    • Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, IN
    • Spokane Public Library, Spokane, WA
    • St. Joseph County Public Library, South Bend, IN
  • Additional Resources
    • Civic Switchboard Workshop Materials
    • Open Data
    • Data Literacies
    • Partnerships and Community-Building
    • Library Roles in Civic Data Ecosystems
    • Guidelines for Creating Open Educational Resources
    • Archiving and Preservation of Civic and Government Data
    • Glossary
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Guidelines for Creating Open Educational Resources

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Our team has experience creating open educational resources (or OER) that are designed to build civic data literacy. OER are educational materials that “reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adoption and redistribution by others” ().

We've learned a lot along the way about designing effective and adaptable learning materials. Here are some resources that can inform your instructional design work!

Prepared by Dr. Marcia Rapchak, April 2025

This guide provides recommendations and strategies for the creation of open educational resources (OER) for professional development and informal learning. The content of this guide is informed by work on two IMLS-funded projects: and the.

By Eleanor Mattern, Veena Vasudevan, Chelsea Gunn, Jessica Ghilani, and Liz Monk for 2024 ALISE Proceedings

This paper reports on an exploration of library workers’ perceptions of open educational resources (OER) and the characteristics that support adoption. We offer a checklist of design elements that can be used to guide the development of reusable OER content.

Trust in Materials: Library Workers’ Adoption and Adaptation of Open Educational Resources
UNESCO, “Open Educational Resources”
Guidelines for Creating Open Educational Resources for Professional Development
Civic Switchboard: Connecting Libraries and Community Information Networks
Civic Switchboard: Education Series