New videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting are now available:
–Building a Deeper Bench: Training Students to Provide Digital Scholarship Support, Joe M. Williams (UNC Chapel Hill)
This video highlights one new way that University of North Carolina Libraries services are enabling pedagogical and curricular change: by training Library student employees to provide substantial digital scholarship support. This initiative provides students with a hands-on work experience, engages them in new types of research, and develops their skills with emerging tools and practices. It also allows the Library’s many digital scholarship services to scale more readily, providing librarians with more time to engage with researchers on larger, complex projects and questions.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-2jOGeZSTUU
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/220321311
–Software Carpentry in the Library: Partnering to Give Researchers Needed Technical Skills, Sarah Clayton & Carl Grant (University of Oklahoma)
Major grant-funded projects may be able to hire someone to provide basic programming and data management skills, services that have become invaluable for creating reproducible research services, but the majority cannot. Recognizing this need, the University of Oklahoma Libraries has partnered with Software Carpentry, a non-profit foundation that offers two-day, hands-on workshops on basic programming skills designed to help researchers automate and track their research processes. Each workshop is taught by library staff including experts in data management, informatics, and digital scholarship, which has provided them with a better understanding of local researchers’ needs.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/mCjlgzOm6k8
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/220344798
More information about CNI’s spring meeting is at https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2017. To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).
