There are a number of other sites out there that encourage people to share their work and collaborate in developing new content that benefits everyone. Here are a few of our favorites.

1. PRIMO: Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

Put together by ACRL this site contains peer reviewed instructional material designed by librarians. Content can range from broader information literacy tutorials to a few database tutorials. (ANTS differs from it in that we began our project by focusing on creating current tutorials for e-resources - whose interfaces are constantly evolving - and hence do not incorporate peer-review as many products would have changed interfaces by the time they were peer reviewed.)

2. CLIP: Cooperative Library Instruction Program

CLIP has as one of its goals the creation of "standards and procedures that would provide for cooperative production of [library instruction] modules that could easily be borrowed and integrated into consistent and cohesive individual library instructional efforts". It states that "this project provides a model for shared creation and use of standardized, mix and match, library instruction modules. " Many tutorials have been created by NSUOK library staff using their standardized approach.

3. CORIL

"CORIL (Cooperative Online Repository for Information Literacy) is an initiative to support information literacy instruction among Canadian universities". Among the project's aims are to create a broad range of library related learning objects, to facilitate sharing, to create a learning community for Canadian instruction materials and to provide a "mechanism for peer reviewed publication of instruction materials".

4. ALPS Link

Link is a "repository of learning objects to support academic librarians in their instructional role." Is is part of an initiative put forward by librarians in the Province of British Columbia and presently contains word documents, pdfs and powerpoint slides pertaining to information literacy.


5. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

EOL is a "Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, ... ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. [It's] goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity."

Although this is not a sharing site for libraries, it is one that demonstrates the potential of technology to allow people across institutions to work together and achieve something great. We love it and cannot say enough good things about the project.

6. Architecture for Humanity
This organization started with $700.00 and a web site. It brings together people to design shelters, healthcare facilities, etc, throughout the world. It asks people to create designs to meet specific needs for specific events and to make these designs accessible to everyone via a Third World Creative Commons License (people retain ownership of ideas but allow others to view and use it for sustainable development purposes in the Third World.) It also emphasises the need for designs that enable people to create sustainable communities where the poor always can find shelter. There is a video of the presentation given at TED which is truly inspiring. It is an example of how great things can be accomplished through technology and a willingness to share.

7. Science of Collaboratories Project
This project "is devoted to understanding the technical and behavioral principles that can lead to better, more successul design of collaboratories in the future"...in other words - a site designed to examine collaboration. It is very useful as it includes a long listing of Collaborative Projects which they have identified and are investigating. It is a great resource for librarians and faculty seeking to understand the dynamics of collaboration and how it is impacting scholarship. The site is produced by the School of Information at the University of Michegan.