Comments on: What kind of instruction does your library do for DH students?

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Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:52:34 +0000

[…] for discussion sessions—I’m looking forward to Re-Skilling for Research and one on doing DH instruction—so I thought, in the interest of balance, I would try to come up with a session based around […]

By: Michelle Dalmau

Michelle Dalmau — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:46:07 +0000

I am interested in this topic not just for student training but also staff training (someone else proposed this topic), but I think the staff and student model (following something like UVa’s Praxis Program) are more related than not. We are struggling with the value of providing one-off workshops v. a longer term project in which groups are actively working on a real project and are able then to immediately apply what they are learning, week to week, month to month to said project over say 1-2 years. UCLA has far more interesting training sessions than ones we’ve devised thus far. Would like to hear more for sure. Maybe this could be a demo session too? I’d like to see some of the teaching materials for the topics you offer or perhaps a list of the specific tools and methods you use or cite.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:04:21 +0000

I would like to talk about promotion for these types of classes as well. How do we make sure that those doing DH know that library is offering these types of classes? What types of outreach do we need to do to get that word out?