As scholarly and research information evolves to be more open in the digital age, new types of non-profit organizations beyond professional societies are emerging and starting to take important roles in the ecosystem. Among them, Carpentries (https://carpentries.org) focus on teaching foundational coding and data science skills and Wiki Education (https://wikiedu.org) connects higher education to Wikipedia with the goal to enhance the most popular reference.  Both organizations consider libraries, especially academic libraries, as their close partners to reach a broad audience globally. In this presentation, we will share the experiences of building and sustaining partnership with Wiki Education and Carpentries from the library perspective. Through these partnerships, the library was able to take advantage of the expertise and resources shared by the external partners to engage faculty and students for in-depth collaboration in curriculum development, research, and publishing. Meanwhile, Wiki Education and Carpentries relied on librarians’ knowledge and network of the campus communities to accomplish their missions. Through the collaborative effort, the campus research and learning communities are better connected with the research information ecosystem as both information consumers and creators.

Partnership between librarians and non-profit stakeholders in research information ecosystem: WikiEdu and carpentries

2019 Spring National Meeting

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