Python for Librarians workshop

Penn Libraries

July 18, 2023

Presenters

• Stephen Hall, Computer Science and Engineering Librarian: https://www.library.upenn.edu/staff/stephen-hall

• Cynthia Heider, Public Digital Scholarship Librarian: https://www.library.upenn.edu/staff/cynthia-heider

Setup

• Go to https://colab.google

• "Open Colab"

• Sign in with your Google account

• GitHub tab

• Enter https://github.com/smhall817/codingprimer.git

OR

• JupyterLab at https://upenndigitalscholarship.github.io/pug-penn/ (might not work in Safari)

Resources in this directory

• Slides

• Example scripts for librarians

Learning More

• Dataquest premium membership (1 year) through Penn Libraries partnership. Sign up here: https://guides.library.upenn.edu/Python

• Library Juice Academy "Python for Librarians" 4 week course (runs September and November 2023): https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/270-python-for-librarians/

• Library Carpentries frequently offers Python workshops targeted to the needs of librarians: https://carpentries.org/

  • A series of lessons you can work through on your own following Carpentries standards: https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-python-intro/

• Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute courses: https://www.ithaka.org/constellate/text-analysis-pedagogy-institute/

• Python for Non-Programmers LinkedIn Learning course: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9978562531003681

• "Python for Librarians" session led by Scott Bailey, Digital Research and Scholarship Librarian at NC State University in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93jT6na-kY

• "Librarians' Code: Natural Language Processing in Python" workshop led by Scott Bailey, Digital Research and Scholarship Librarian at NC State University in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDt9sl2F7gw

• "Programming for Librarians" Jupyter notebook from the University of Oslo: https://scriptotek.github.io/programming-for-librarians/README.html

• "Coding for Librarians: Learning by Example"

  • Report: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/ltr/article/view/5671/7033

  • Companion Website: https://thatandromeda.github.io/ltr/

External Python libraries you might be interested in:

• PyMARC is a library of tools for working with MARC21 records: https://gitlab.com/pymarc

• Beautiful Soup is a library of tools to help you quickly pull data out of HTML and XML files: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

• Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python: https://matplotlib.org/

• Pandoc makes it easy to convert documents from one format to another: https://boisgera.github.io/pandoc/