Project Team
The core team behind the curriculum development and workshops.
Todd Grappone
University Librarian, UC Santa Barbara
Tim Dennis
Program Director
Zhiyuan Yao
Program Coordinator
Eric Huang
Lesson Infrastructure Developer
Lawrence Lee
Lesson Infrastructure Developer
Madeline Kim
Lesson Infrastructure Developer
Review Committee
Reviewers and experts guiding the project.
Chris Erdmann
Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab Data Centre
Cody Hennesy
Computational Research Librarian
Elaine Westbrooks
Carl A. Kroch University Librarian @ Cornell University Library
Caroline Coward
Information Science Manager and Library Group Supervisor @ Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA
Yvonne Ivey
Program Manager @ NASA TOPS
Juliane Schneider
Research Librarian - Metadata @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jenny Muilenburg
Research Data Services Librarian @ Association of Research Libraries
Clifford Kravit
IT Program Manager of Research Computing @ UCLA
Joy Guey
Emerging Technologies Advocate @ UCLA
Florio Arguillas
Research Associate, Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Elizabeth Bedford
Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian at University of Washington Libraries
Thu-Mai Lewis
Assistant Director for Research Data Stewardship @ UNC-Chapel Hill
Melanie Gainey
Open Science Program Director/Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University
Karen Ciccone
Lead Librarian for Public Science @ North Carolina State University Libraries
Jane Greenberg
Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director, Metadata Research Center & Drexel University
Cite this Curriculum
If you use these materials in your own teaching or research, please cite the project using the formats below. The metadata is derived from our CITATION.cff file.
Dennis, T., McAulay, E., Yao, Z., Erdmann, C., Grappone, T., Huang, Z., Lee, L., Kim, M. (2025). Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods (Version 1.0.6). [Curriculum]. https://ucla-imls-open-sci.info
@misc{ucla_imls_open_sci_2025,
author = {Dennis, Tim and McAulay, Elizabeth and Yao, Zhiyuan and Erdmann, Christopher and Grappone, Todd and Huang, Zikang and Lee, Lawrence and Kim, Madeline},
title = {Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods},
month = {12},
year = {2025},
publisher = {GitHub},
version = {1.0.6},
url = {https://ucla-imls-open-sci.info}
}Community & Partners
This project relies on the guidance and frameworks of the wider community.
The Carpentries
We extensively utilized The Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training materials to train our author cohorts.
Special thanks to Toby Hodges (Director of Curriculum) for his invaluable guidance on lesson infrastructure and best practices.
Library Carpentry
We thank Cody Hennesy (Co-Chair, Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee) for his strategic leadership in defining the lesson adoption policy and governance workflow.
Acknowledgements
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (Grant RE-252335-OLS-22).
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Virginia Steel and Athena Jackson (University Librarians, UCLA) who served as Principal Investigators for administrative purposes.
We also thank Todd Grappone (Co-Principal Investigator) for his vital leadership and contribution to the project's inception.
Finally, we thank the UCLA Library Grants Team for their essential administrative guidance throughout the project.
