Hi Nathan Just some experience from my side…
I attended, as well as taught at several self-organised and self-funded Library Carpentry workshops last year across South Africa and I wasn’t a qualified instructor. Juan and Anelda organised for Tim Dennis to travel from UCLA and teach at one of these workshops, which was great for us as we learned so much from his experience. I recently became qualified through the Software/Data Carpentry instructor training and am teaching at a Library Carpentry workshop in Ethiopia<https://educationstrategycenter.github.io/2018-01-29-Ethiopia/> next week (linked to website so you can see the syllabus). At UCT, we started out with teaching just the Intro to Data lesson (without the regex module) to librarians at our institution. This helped them to understand what Library Carpentry is and how it could assist them in their work, and it also helped us learn more about their needs (through the jargon busting session). This could easily be done in a half-day session. Then we started formalising and expanding the workshops, based on what our local librarian needs were. As Belinda mentioned, OpenRefine is always popular amongst librarians and many take it away and begin to use it in their work. Best, [id:[email protected]] Kayleigh Lino Digital Curation Officer UCT Libraries: Digital Library Services Level 7, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, Library road, Upper Campus University of Cape Town Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch, 7701 www.digitalservices.lib.uct.ac.za<http://www.digitalservices.lib.uct.ac.za/> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Tel.: +27 21 650 2074 From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Belinda Weaver <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 3:24 AM To: "Moore, Nathan T" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Library Carpentry question Hi Nathan Yes, they are mostly self-organized. People can request a workshop through the website http://librarycarpentry.github.io/about/<https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/Y1HZCnZmpOt6oR3PHmkn4q> (form is at the bottom) or through the workshops part of our chat room https://gitter.im/LibraryCarpentry/workshops<https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/FVfRCoYnqytKzyPguoeh8j> 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: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | p: +61 408 841 882 | t: @cloudaus On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Moore, Nathan T <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks Belinda. Am I wrong to assume that Library Carpentry workshops are mostly self-organized at this stage? Nathan ________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Belinda Weaver <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:25:56 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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/<https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/_cbbCpgo02fx8ROVI7dFS8> 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<tel:+61%20408%20841%20882> | t: @cloudaus Disclaimer - University of Cape Town This email is subject to UCT policies and email disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/main/email-disclaimer or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. 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