Thanks Belinda.
Am I wrong to assume that Library Carpentry workshops are mostly self-organized at this stage? Nathan ________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Belinda Weaver <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:25:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Discuss] Library Carpentry question Hi all I saw this from Nathan: Hi All, What’s the status of Library Carpentry workshops? I might have an audience for one later this spring in MN. Is there a regular pool of instructors? Are the online lessons sufficiently mature for use? Audience is English, History, Librarians – mostly undergrad faculty and grad students. Nathan and am replying. Nathan, there are *some* Library Carpentry instructors but not many who specifically certified as that - and it is not yet a requirement that someone who teaches LC need be certified. It would be good but we are not at the point where we have enough people. Software/Data Carpentry certified people are most welcome to teach the workshops if they feel confident with the material. The most mature lessons are shell, Open Refine, and the Intro to Data one which covers regular expressions - the rest are in a state of development. I have taught LC in a day - starting out with jargon busting and data structures, then doing shell, then doing regex and finishing with OpenRefine. It is a lot for a day but those things hang together very well. If you think it is too much, you can do it in two days. or a day and a half, or stick to the one day and drop regex. There is a lot of fear and even some resistance to these skills out there - having taught several of these workshops - 10+ by now - but generally people get on board if they see WHY they should get these skills. I generally say that researchers don't need librarians now to find information forthem - they can find journals and conferences and patents etc on their own with online tools. What researchers often need - the information they actually want - is in data theyalready have or can get - what they lack is the ability to analyse, visualise, clean it up, manage it and so on, which is where Library Carpentry can help. It is a great on-ramp to other Carpentries and people go away loving OpenRefine even if they never go back to shell or regex. Website is here and you can find the lessons there http://librarycarpentry.github.io/ Happy to discuss further. regards Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus
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