The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of eScience Librarianship.
Title
Joining Together to Build More: The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium
Authors
Thea P. Atwood
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew T. Creamer
Brown University
Joshua Dull
Yale University
Julie Goldman
Harvard University
Kristin Lee
Tufts University
Lora C. Leligdon
Dartmouth College
Sarah K. Oelker
Mount Holyoke College
Source
Journal of eScience Librarianship
Vol 8 No 1
DOI: 10.7191/jeslib.2019.1161
Abstract
In 2017 a group of academic library and information technology staff from institutions across New England piloted a process of joining The Carpentries, an organization developed to train researchers in essential computing skills and practices for automating and improving their handling of data, as a consortium. The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium (NESCLiC) shared a gold-level tier membership to become a Carpentries member organization. NESCLiC members attended a Software Carpentry workshop together and then participated in instructor training as a cohort, collaborating on learning the material, practicing, and beginning to host and teach workshops as a group.
This article describes both the successes and challenges of forming this new consortium, suggests good practices for those who might wish to form similar collaborations, and discusses the future of this program and other efforts to help researchers improve their computing and data handling skills.
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10 pages; PDF.
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