About the Project

Funded by the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

About the Project

An IMLS-funded curriculum for open science, built by and for librarians.

What We Built

Between 2023 and 2024, two cohorts of librarians proposed, developed, and refined 14 lessons on open science principles and methods. All lessons are built on The Carpentries Workbench and released under CC-BY 4.0, free to teach and adapt.

Where It Stands

The grant period has ended. The Library Carpentry Governance Committee now stewards the curriculum. One lesson, DMP 101, has been formally adopted into the Library Carpentry curriculum. The remaining lessons are in Alpha or Beta and actively seeking community pilots.

How to Get Involved

You can pilot any lesson now. Pilots run 1.5 to 4 hours, in any format. No specialized expertise required. Every pilot is credited in a Carpentries blog post. Browse the lessons and file a pilot interest issue to get started.

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Project Team

The core team behind the curriculum development and workshops.

Todd Grappone

Todd Grappone

University Librarian, UC Santa Barbara

Tim Dennis

Tim Dennis

Program Director

Zhiyuan Yao

Zhiyuan Yao

Program Coordinator

Eric Huang

Eric Huang

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Lawrence Lee

Lawrence Lee

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Madeline Kim

Madeline Kim

Lesson Infrastructure Developer

Review Committee

Reviewers and experts guiding the project.

Chris Erdmann
Chris Erdmann

Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab Data Centre

Cody Hennesy
Cody Hennesy

Computational Research Librarian

Elaine Westbrooks
Elaine Westbrooks

Carl A. Kroch University Librarian @ Cornell University Library

Caroline Coward
Caroline Coward

Information Science Manager and Library Group Supervisor @ Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA

Yvonne Ivey
Yvonne Ivey

Program Manager @ NASA TOPS

Juliane Schneider
Juliane Schneider

Research Librarian - Metadata @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jenny Muilenburg
Jenny Muilenburg

Research Data Services Librarian @ Association of Research Libraries

Clifford Kravit
Clifford Kravit

IT Program Manager of Research Computing @ UCLA

Joy Guey
Joy Guey

Emerging Technologies Advocate @ UCLA

Florio Arguillas
Florio Arguillas

Research Associate, Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Elizabeth Bedford
Elizabeth Bedford

Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian at University of Washington Libraries

Thu-Mai Lewis
Thu-Mai Lewis

Assistant Director for Research Data Stewardship @ UNC-Chapel Hill

Melanie Gainey
Melanie Gainey

Open Science Program Director/Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University

Karen Ciccone
Karen Ciccone

Lead Librarian for Public Science @ North Carolina State University Libraries

Jane Greenberg
Jane Greenberg

Alice B. Kroeger Professor and Director, Metadata Research Center & Drexel University

Cite this Curriculum
DOI (opens in new tab)

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 (opens in new tab) file.

APA Style

Dennis, T., Lee, L., Lee, H., Yao, Z., Gong, E., Hu, L., Huang, Z., McAulay, E., Grappone, T., Erdmann, C., Kim, M. (2025). Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods (Version 1.0.6). [Curriculum]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18055759

BibTeX 
@software{ucla_imls_open_sci_2025,
  author = {Dennis, Tim and Lee, Lawrence and Lee, Hyerin and Yao, Zhiyuan and Gong, Emily and Hu, Loretta and Huang, Zikang Eric and McAulay, Elizabeth and Grappone, Todd and Erdmann, Christopher and Kim, Madeline},
  title = {Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods},
  month = {12},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version = {1.0.6},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18055759},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18055759}
}
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Community & Partners

This project relies on the guidance and frameworks of the wider community.

The Carpentries
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
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.

Timeline

for Lessons for Librarians in Open Science

  • December 4th, 2023

    Call for Proposals

    Please submit your Open Science for Librarians lesson proposals! Read the full Call for Proposals.

  • February 29th, 2024

    Proposal Deadline -- EXTENDED!

    Lesson proposals are due. Please submit your lesson idea!

  • April 30 - May 10th, 2024

    Accepted Proposals Announced

    We will announce the lessons selected for development.

  • June - August, 2024

    Collaborative Lesson Development Workshop

    A curriculum development workshop where lesson authors participate in a program to support lesson design.

  • September - December, 2024

    Lesson Refinement and Piloting

    Further lesson development and alpha piloting of lesson.

  • January - March, 2025

    Beta piloting and Carpentries Incubator

    Piloting by others outside of the core-author team and ingesting into the Carpentries Incubator.