Hi Nathan Yes, they are mostly self-organized. People can request a workshop through the website http://librarycarpentry.github.io/about/ (form is at the bottom) or through the workshops part of our chat room https://gitter.im/LibraryCarpentry/workshops
There are quite a few instructors in the US - Tim Dennis from UCLA and I trained a librarian cohort in Portland OR last year, so there may be people not too far away who can help out. I am happy to talk to anyone who is thinking about it. cheers Belinda Belinda Weaver Community Development Lead Software and Data Carpentry e: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Moore, Nathan T <nmo...@winona.edu> wrote: > Thanks Belinda. > > > Am I wrong to assume that Library Carpentry workshops are mostly > self-organized at this stage? > > > Nathan > ------------------------------ > *From:* Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.software-carpentry.org> on behalf > of Belinda Weaver <bwea...@carpentries.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:25:56 PM > *To:* discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > *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: bwea...@carpentries.org | p: +61 408 841 882 <+61%20408%20841%20882> | > t: @cloudaus >
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