Library Carpentry
UC3 New Year Series: Data Publishing at CDL in 2025
Structured, well-documented, and FAIR-aligned data is the foundation of effective research dissemination. However, data publishing activities have often focused on the last step in the research process. This puts energy on helping researchers clean up disorganized data sets and placing them in repositories. While this is essential to ensuring accessibility and preservation of important data […]
Library Carpentry Advisory Group Welcomes New Members
Following on from January’s Call for Applications, The Library Carpentry Advisory Group is pleased to welcome seven new members to our team. Selected from a pool of excellent applicants, they will begin their 3-year terms this month. Please join us in welcoming: Sara King – Australia Dr Sara King is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused […]
Expanding Data and Software Skills Training
The UC3 team consults with the broad UC library community regarding research data management and data publishing in various capacities. Over the past several years, we have seen a keen interest in expanding skills training opportunities for librarians in the areas of data skills and software skills. In an effort to amplify existing training programs […]
Expanding the Carpentries Community in California Academic Libraries
Today we are announcing a new project to help build regional training partnerships in California. As the Data Services Librarian at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-chair of the Library Carpentry Advisory Committee, I have been privileged to witness the transformative impact of data and software training for librarians. Whether it is a cataloging […]
Farewell and Thank You to Chris Erdmann
UC3 will bid farewell to Chris Erdmann on September 30th. Chris joined UC3 in May 2018 as Library Carpentry Community & Development Director and has spent the past year and a half expanding the Library Carpentry community in many ways. Chris is moving on to a new role at UNC Chapel Hill, but he will continue […]
Library Carpentry Receives Supplemental IMLS Grant
In November 2017, the California Digital Library (CDL) announced a two-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant funded project to further advance the scope, adoption, and impact of Library Carpentry across the US. The grant enables CDL and the University of California Curation Center (UC3) to host Chris Erdmann, the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director, […]
The Strategic Value of Library Carpentry and The Carpentries to Research Libraries
Originally posted by Elaine L. Westbrooks The Strategic Value of Library Carpentry and The Carpentries to Research Libraries The Data Science Community Newsletter, a helpful resource by Laura Noren and Brad Stanger, helps us track all the data science initiatives sweeping through higher ed. Brown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UC Irvine, UIUC, University of Michigan, and others have […]
A Carpentries-Based Approach to Teaching FAIR Data and Software Principles
originally posted by Chris Erdmann Recently, I was lucky to participate in an innovative workshop held at Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover from 9 – 13 July, 2018, which paired The Carpentries’ pedagogical style of teaching and lesson material with in-depth background on the FAIR Data Principles. FAIR comprises a set of guiding principles to make […]
New hire: Library Carpentry Community & Development Director
We’re excited to announce that Chris Erdmann has been hired as the Library Carpentry Community and Development Director starting May 4, 2018. Chris has been working in the libraries for more than 21 years to integrate data management and workflows in database and library systems and has been working with research and library communities through […]
Skills Training for Librarians: Expanding Library Carpentry
In today’s data-driven, online and highly interconnected world, librarians are key to supporting diverse information needs and leading best practices to work with and manage data. For librarians to be effective in a rapidly evolving information landscape, training and professional development opportunities in both computational and data skills must be available and accessible. Over the […]