The Care and Feeding of the Carpentries: Cultivating Inclusive Software Development Communities in Libraries

The Care and Feeding of the Carpentries Cultivating Inclusive Software Development Communities in Libraries Justin Wadland Jennifer Stubbs Jonathan Wheeler Scott Martin DLF Forum 2025 November 18, 2025 Jon Wheeler Intros Head of Digital Scholarship Services Michigan State University Libraries Affiliate Instructor, Assistant Professor, Instruction and Outreach Librarian. Bradley University Cullom-Davis Library Data Curation Librarian, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico Biological Sciences Librarian, Interim Statistics Librarian University of Michigan Libraries Justin Wadland (he/him) Jennifer Stubbs Scott Martin Outline 01. 03. 02. Experiences with Carpentries ●Involvement ●Major Impact Discussion/Q&A ●Initial questions ●Your questions Closing comments Getting to know you and gathering questions Join at menti.com | use code 4192 1457 What are the Carpentries? ●An organization ●A global community ●Curricula and workshops on software development for: ○Researchers ○Data analysis ○Library workers ●A pedagogical approach to teaching coding https://carpentries.org/ Jennifer Stubbs Jennifer Stubbs’ involvement ●Community Discussion Host ●Mostly virtual/remote/hybrid workshops ●After 3 years, moving into mentor role of newer instructors ○on their first virtual workshop, ○working remotely as a team, ○meetings for coordinating the workshop Major impact to highlight From game design: ●say obvious things, ●surface assumptions, ●make the implicit preferences explicit to avoid pet peeves. OR Screen real estate in webinar ●1 screen, use phone for workshop–font size ●Toggling between software windows (webinar, client, etherpad) ●Administrator privileges or personal laptop with new Windows safety re installing apps outside the Microsoft store Jon Wheeler Question 2 How do the Carpentries support inclusive pedagogy for teaching foundational coding skills? Continuing the Q&A in Shared Notes https://tinyurl.com/dlf2025-carpentries Closing Comments Recommended Resources Carpentries website: carpentries.org Barton, C., Double, J., Ganeshwaran, N., James, A., Reed, P., & Stubbs, J. (2025). Spicy Data Skills Open Science Program With Library Carpentry. In The Open Science Cookbook (pp. 41–47). Association of College and Research Libraries. https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/9798892553667.pdf Benedict, K., & Wheeler, J. (2022). "Complementary Scales for Learning: The Feedback Loop between Short-Form Technical Workshops and Long-Form Carpentries Workshops." In Teaching Research Data Management (pp. 133-151.), ALA Editions. Atwood, T. P., Creamer, A. T., Dull, J., Goldman, J., Lee, K., Leligdon, L. C., & Oelker, S. K. (2019). Joining Together to Build More: The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2019.1161 Pugachev, S. (2019). What Are “The Carpentries” and What Are They Doing in the Library? Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 19(2), 209–214. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/721420 CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, and includes icons by Flaticon, and infographics & images by Freepik Thanks! Justin Wadland - [email protected] Jennifer Stubbs - [email protected] Jonathan Wheeler - [email protected] Scott Martin - [email protected] Image credits: Wood panels throughout presentation come from Hough’s American Woods. PDM 1.0. Outline 01. 03. 02. Experiences with Carpentries ●Involvement ●Major Impact Discussion/Q&A ●Initial questions ●Your questions Closing comments