Library Carpentry develops lessons and teaches workshops for and with people working in library and information related roles. It is part of The Carpentries, a project that is also home to the Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry lesson projects.

The goal of Library Carpentry is to empower people working in library and information related roles to work more efficiently and potentially teach the skills they have learned to colleagues, students, and researchers. This is where training for trainers comes in. Regular Library Carpentry training is done face-to-face, using the lesson materials which are all available online, under a CC-BY license.

This course will take place on 24-25 June 2019 in the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin – making it easily combinable with the main LIBER Annual Conference.

Pricing

• General: €200
• Staff from LIBER institutions: €130
• LIR Member Institutions: €30

Please note, this is a separate event to the LIBER pre-conference workshops. Registration and payment is handled at a different site, not as part of your LIBER conference registration. Register here.

Training for Trainers

The purpose of this training is to make you a certified instructor. As a certified instructor, you become part of an international network of individuals, who are dedicated to bridging the digital skills gap in academic librarianship and in research. Certification helps to maintain high-quality in the lessons and consistency in delivery standards. Carpentries instructors are better equipped to refine lessons, workshops, and to enhance the movement. You can start hosting Carpentries events on your own campus or within your own organisation. Library directors; having qualified Carpentries instructors on your staff is a great way to enhance the value proposition and effectiveness of your library.

This instructor training teaches applicants how to teach. The focus will be on evidence-based education techniques and hands-on practice; as a condition of taking part, applicants must agree to:

• Abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct
• Agree to teach at a Library Carpentry workshop within 12 months of completing the course, and
• Complete three short tasks after the course in order to complete the certification.  The tasks take a total of approximately 8-10 hours.

Meet Your Instructors

Juliane Schneider

In a 20-year career specializing in metadata, ontologies and discovery, Juliane Schneider has worked in start-ups, on Wall Street in an insurance library, at NYU medical center, for EBSCO publishing, and at UC San Diego in the Research Data Curation Program. Her longest stint at any job was the six years she spent at Countway Library as the Metadata Librarian, and now she has returned to Harvard as the Team Lead/Lead Data Curator for Harvard Catalyst.

Her latest passion is for the instruction of librarians in data best practices and the tools used in data management. She is a certified instructor and trainer for The Carpentries, believing that well structured, reproducible data begins with understanding the tools and processes used to produce it (Bash, command line, regex, OpenRefine, Python, R). She has also been involved in Library Carpentry lesson development, especially for OpenRefine.

Tim Dennis

Tim is Director of the Data Science Center at UCLA Library where he provides data services, including help finding data, instruction, one-on-one consulting, and community building. He is a regular user of R, Python, SQL and command-line tools and have extensive experience helping researchers and students with these tools.

Part of his role at UCLA involves contributing to the Carpentries community, a global volunteer-run educational enterprise that teaches foundational coding, and data science skills to researchers. As part of this, Tim co-teaches two-day training sessions, both online and in person, which cover evidence-based practices from educational psychology on how people learn and how to better teach software and data skills.

The Venue

The event will take place in the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin.  UCD Library is at the heart of Ireland’s largest campus and UCD is Ireland’s Global University.  The library comprises of five physical locations, but also comprises our Special Collections, UCD Archives, National Folklore Collection (inscribed in 2017 to the UNESCO Memory of the World register), UCD Digital Library and Research Repository UCD.  Please see the UCD Interactive Map for directions.