James Baker on The Carpentries

Library Carpentry at the University of Sussex

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

Last Wednesday 14 Librarians from 8 libraries in the Brighton area convened at the Sussex Humanities Lab for a Library Carpentry workshop. The session was organised by the University of Sussex Library and colleagues from there were out in force both to instruct and as helpers. The workshop covered Regular Expressions, Shell, Git (in a short introductory session organised by local company Serano), and OpenRefine.

Library Carpentry workshop call

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

Library Carpentry is software skills training aimed at the needs and requirements of library professionals (that is, coding and data manipulation that goes beyond the use of familiar office suites). It is made by librarians, for librarians to help you:

automate repetitive, boring, error-prone tasks
create, maintain and analyse sustainable and reusable data
work effectively with IT and systems colleagues
better understand the use of software in research
and much more..

Training takes places in face-to-face workshops where one or more of the developed modules are taught. Modules are also made available online (CC BY, published via GitHub Pages) for self-directed study or for adaption and reuse by library professionals.

Library Carpentry - update

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

Last week a global team of volunteers spent two days improving and enriching the original Library Carpentry materials. Belinda Weaver describes this AMAZING effort in a blog post.

The upshot of this is that the original materials have been superseded. To find the latest Library Carpentry lessons, please now head to https://github.com/data-lessons where the community will continue to update, maintain, and improve the lesson materials as they as used and reused across the globe!

Library Carpentry - Fin, for now

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

Library Carpentry was an exploratory programme of four three-hour software skills sessions focused on the needs and requirements of the library professionals. For further details, see the outline post. Sessions were held on Monday the 9th, 16th, 23th, and 30th of November 2015 at City University London. We thank the Centre for Information Science for generously agreeing to host Library Carpentry.

Library Carpentry is far from over, but we now into a phase of reflection and planning. If you are interested in what happened during this exploratory run, I direct your attention to two blog posts:

Programming Historian Live

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Originally posted at http://cradledincaricature.com/2015/10/21/programming-historian-live/.

On 19 October curious historians descended on the British Library for Programming Historian Live. The Programming Historian is a suite of open access, peer reviewed lessons that provide practical instruction to historians thinking about using data, code, and software in their research. It is co-edited by 2013 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Adam Crymble and it does an amazing job at bringing the methods and motivations of the (small but growing) Digital History community to the wider historical profession. This "Live" spin-off, funded by my 2015 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship, was designed to take into account the fact that whilst some of us learn just fine through self-directed tutorials, others need the mental space, in person support, and peer pressure of seminar style learning.

Library Carpentry - Where and When

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

Library Carpentry is an exploratory programme of four three-hour software skills sessions focused on the needs and requirements of the library professionals. For further details, see the outline post.

Library Carpentry sessions will be held on Monday the 9th, 16th, 23th, and 30th of November 2015. Sessions will start at 1730 and conclude by 2030. They will be held at City University London in room C304 (Tait Building, third floor, room 4). Directions are available on the City website. We thank the Centre for Information Science for generously agreeing to host Library Carpentry.

Software Skills Training for Librarians - Programme outline and FAQ

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Library Carpentry website

In one way or another librarians play a crucial role in cultivating world-class research. And in most disciplinary areas today world-class research relies on the use of software. Software Carpentry offers introductory software skills training with a focus on the needs and requirements of research scientists. Library Carpentry offers comparable introductory software training with a focus on the needs and requirements of the library professionals.