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New England Library Carpentry

Our Mission

We're a group of New England library workers helping build confidence in tech tools and literacy for public librarians using lessons from the Carpentries organization.

What is The Carpentries organization?

The Carpentries teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry workshops are based on publicly available Carpentries lessons. The Carpentries diverse global community includes Instructors, helpers, Trainers, Maintainers, Mentors, community champions, member organisations, supporters, workshop organisers, the Core Team, and a whole lot more.

Library Carpentry workshops teach people working in library and information-related roles how to:

  • Cut through the jargon terms and phrases of software development and data science and apply concepts from these fields in library tasks
  • Identify and use best practices in data structures
  • Learn how to programmatically transform and map data from one form to another
  • Work effectively with researchers, IT, and systems colleagues
  • Automate repetitive, error prone tasks

We are a New England group of Carpentries-certified instructors, using the Library Carpentries lessons for our workshops: https://librarycarpentry.org

We were formed by a grant from The Carpentries: https://carpentries.org

Upcoming Workshops

We do not currently have a workshop scheduled. Contact us to schedule one for your organization today!

Past Workshops

Date Link to Workshop
February 2022 View workshop page
October 2021 View workshop page
April 2021 View workshop page
February 2020 View workshop page

What do we teach?

  • Introduction to Working with Data (Regular Expressions)
  • The UNIX Shell
  • OpenRefine
  • Introduction to Git
  • SQL
  • Tidy Data

You can view all of the Library Carpentry lessons, as well as the lesson materials, here: https://librarycarpentry.org/lessons

Who are we?

  • Jaki Frisina, Lebanon Public Libraries
  • Ron Houk, Lebanon Public Libraries
  • Chelsea Page, Nesmith Library
  • Molly Driscoll, Folio Services, EBSCO
  • Kevin French, GMILCS, Inc
  • Sarah St. Martin, GMILCS, Inc

Contact Us

Email us at nelc.instructors@gmail.com.

We'd love to help you get involved with the Carpentries, or hold a workshop for your library organization!

Updates Planned

Updates planned for this website include:

  • What we're working on in the Carpentries community
  • Meme repository/album
  • Slack channels to stay in touch