Over the past couple years, an international Library Carpentry (LC) movement has emulated the success of the Carpentries — both the Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry initiatives — in providing librarians with the critical computational and data skills they need to serve their stakeholders and user communities, as well as streamline repetitive workflows and use best data practices within the library. This Library Carpentry community has already developed initial curriculum and taught more than 40 workshops around the world
We are excited to announce that California Digital Library (CDL) has been awarded project grant funds from IMLS to further advance the scope, adoption, and impact of Library Carpentry across the US. This 2-year project will be conducted by CDL's digital curation team, University of California Curation Center (UC3), and will focus on these main activities: • development and updates of core training modules optimized for the librarian community and based on Carpentries pedagogy • regionally-organized training opportunities for librarians, leading to an expanding cohort of certified instructors available to train fellow librarians in critical skills and tools, such as the command line, OpenRefine, Python, R, SQL, and research data management • community outreach to raise awareness of Library Carpentry and promote the development of a broad, engaged community of support to sustain the movement and to advance LC integration within the newly forming Carpentries organization More information on our project available here: http://uc3.cdlib.org/2017/11/06/skills-training-for-librarians-expanding-library-carpentry/ Please help spread the word. Forward this email or RT https://twitter.com/UC3CDL/status/927579394217873408 California Digital Library John Chodacki | Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3) UC Office of the President | 415 20th Street 4th Floor | Oakland, CA 94612 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Main +1-510-987-0555 | Mobile +1-415-235-0378 CDL: website<http://www.cdlib.org/> I Twitter<https://twitter.com/caldiglib> | UC3: website <http://www.cdlib.org/uc3> I Twitter <https://twitter.com/UC3CDL> I Blog<http://datapub.cdlib.org/>
