Library Carpentry

The course outline for Library Carpentry training.

Course overview

Library Carpentry workshops teach introductory software and data skills with a focus on the needs and requirements of library and information professionals. 

During the workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of:

• working with data and regular expressions
• data cleaning and preparation for further analysis
• finding and working with data files from the command line shell
• managing files using version control

The workshop will be delivered online (via Zoom) over 2 days in an interactive and informal setting where you will code along live with instructors and have the opportunity to have many of their questions answered.

You should refer to the workshop website for:

• detailed schedule and training materials
• installations instructions and prerequisites for attending the workshop
• pre-workshop survey that should you should complete

Intended audience

This course is aimed at any healthcare knowledge and library services staff who have an interest in developing and using software and data skills. 

Prerequisites

You must commit to both days of the course and have the correct technology to participate.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the session you will learn how to: 

• cut through the jargon terms and phrases of software development and data science
• apply concepts from these fields in library tasks
• identify and use best practices in data structures
• programmatically transform and map data from one form to another
• work effectively with researchers, information technology (IT), and systems colleagues
• automate repetitive, error prone tasks

Professional and Knowledge Skills Base (PKSB)

The areas of the PKSB covered, include:

• 2.1 Data management
• 2.4 Data engineering
• 2.5 Data architecture
• 2.8 Data literacy
• 13.2 Exploiting technology
• 13.4 System design and development of systems
• the wider library, information and knowledge sector context

Course facilitators

Various facilitators participate in delivering this workshop including Jez Cope.

Find out more about Jez Cope on LinkedIn.