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Developing Data Skills In Malaysian And Singapore Librarians Via Online Library Carpentry, Namita Santra, Belinda Sta Maria, Danping Dong Oct 2021

Developing Data Skills In Malaysian And Singapore Librarians Via Online Library Carpentry, Namita Santra, Belinda Sta Maria, Danping Dong

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The Carpentries is a global community teaching data science and computational skills to librarians, researchers in academia, industry and government. The various initiatives include Library Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry. Organisations interested in upskilling their staff may conduct Carpentries workshops based on openly available lesson materials and customise the content according to their needs and audiences.

The first Library Carpentry workshop was jointly organised by LAS and Nanyang Technological University Libraries in June 2019 in Singapore. Inspired by the success of the workshop in cultivating data skills in librarians, Monash Malaysia Library planned to organise a similar …