Library: Professional Development Toolkit

Free online courses with certificates for basic and essential workplace skills, as well as thousands of academic offerings

Collection of easy to access, free online courses in many subjects, including health sciences and more

his collection of online resources covers information about cataloging and classification, including RDA (Resource Description & Access), the new, unified cataloging standard.

Free online courses from Princeton, Stanford, and others

Learn new skills, pursue your interests, advance your career.

Over 750 online classes offer the opportunity to learn on your own time and at your own pace. All classes are free and provide a Certificate of Completion. Subjects range from computers to Internet to software to life skills.

Developed by the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina, this series of shorts videos provides an introduction to digital preservation.

You can learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever.

Library Journal and School Library Journal in partnership with some of the industry’s leading organizations, produce numerous webcasts throughout the year. Designed to unlock new and developing issues facing libraries, these insightful webcasts cover a variety of content for many different facets of the library profession. Attend live for networking and interactive Q&A or access webcasts on demand.

This free online program provides additional resources in library knowledge and skills for staff members who have no formal education in library science. This program is a supplement to the ABLE courses; however, they are not tied to the completion of the ABLE courses and concentrate on serving youth.

Get 1,300 free online courses from the world's leading universities -- Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over 45,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now.

The Open Education Consortium in collaboration with MERLOT offers a search engine on OER (Open Educational Resources). OER are openly licensed online educational materials that allow teachers and students to freely use, share, and modify.

Free online courses in the sciences and computing

Welcome to the WebJunction Course Catalog, hrough the generous support of OCLC and many state library agencies across the US, WebJunction provides timely and relevant learning content for you to access anytime, from anywhere.
Certificates of completion will be available to you after you have completed any course or webinar.