This wishlist is a work in-progress
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:23 am
Open Syllabus Project, which has collected syllabi from the Internet to compile the most assigned books in classrooms;
Data about book and scholarly article citations in Wikipedia, published by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is currently being refreshed and extended to more languages.
Download the wishlist here.
We are using these datasets to help define a collection of books that has wide appeal and impact for libraries across the US and the patrons they serve. and will evolve as we incorporate more datasets and review our approach with community input. We’ve made 3 versions our wishlist available to help facilitate use within the library and whatsapp lead publishing communities, featuring ISBN-13, ISBN-10, & OCLC identifiers.
Here’s how you can help! We are looking for libraries, authors, publishers, and individual book lovers to help us build this collection. You can help in the following ways:
Donate books
You can donate books on our wishlist to our physical archive. If you are a library, a publisher, or have a private collection with more than 1,000 books to donate, please contact Chris Freeland, Director of Open Libraries, at [email protected]. If you have a private collection or small number of volumes to donate, please use this form to begin the donation process. We will add these books to our digitization queue and they will become ebooks available through Open Libraries as funding becomes available.
If you already have digital versions of these books, we would love to add them to our print-disabled collectio.
Data about book and scholarly article citations in Wikipedia, published by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is currently being refreshed and extended to more languages.
Download the wishlist here.
We are using these datasets to help define a collection of books that has wide appeal and impact for libraries across the US and the patrons they serve. and will evolve as we incorporate more datasets and review our approach with community input. We’ve made 3 versions our wishlist available to help facilitate use within the library and whatsapp lead publishing communities, featuring ISBN-13, ISBN-10, & OCLC identifiers.
Here’s how you can help! We are looking for libraries, authors, publishers, and individual book lovers to help us build this collection. You can help in the following ways:
Donate books
You can donate books on our wishlist to our physical archive. If you are a library, a publisher, or have a private collection with more than 1,000 books to donate, please contact Chris Freeland, Director of Open Libraries, at [email protected]. If you have a private collection or small number of volumes to donate, please use this form to begin the donation process. We will add these books to our digitization queue and they will become ebooks available through Open Libraries as funding becomes available.
If you already have digital versions of these books, we would love to add them to our print-disabled collectio.