Abstract: Openness, a key principle and practice of digital and critical pedagogy, continues to take hold in university classrooms and libraries across the United States. This presentation considers ways in which the values of the open might inform the futures of another area of the American university: career services. The career center and library may have similar functions — providing access to resources, fostering skill development, offering guidance for future paths — yet ongoing conversations about information, media, data, and digital literacies have largely overlooked the career center. To bring this new site of knowledge (and those who work in it) into conversations about open education, this presentation begins with notions of the glitch or the breakdown in the spirit of Alex Saum-Pascual and Sharon Mattern. In the context of career development, the glitch refers to the moment in which students encounter the limits of their individual resources, frequently in the discovery that career interest assessments and personality inventories lie beyond paywalls. The career center is in a unique position to eliminate that particular barrier for students, a position that deserves closer examination. This presentation then explores the potential for the career center to take a role in teaching information literacy, with the Association of College and Research Libraries’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education providing a valuable starting point for this conversation. This presentation concludes with an overview of Lisa Spiro’s proposed values for digital humanities as a community of practice and a call for these values to enter the space of the career center. This work is particularly important for institutions that may not have access to the funding or personnel to invest in large-scale open education initiatives at this point but still wish to convey the values of open education to their community.