Graduate Services
New Books Added to Graduate Services in March
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
The Realness Of Things Past: Ancient Greece And Ontological History by Greg Anderson
Little Man Little Man: A Story Of Childhood by James Baldwin with illustrations by Yoran Cazac
The Farm by Wendell Berry with drawing by Carolyn Whitesel
The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961-1993 by Anthony Burgess edited by Will Carr
Puma by Anthony Burgess edited with an introduction by Paul Wake
William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electric Revolution edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett
E.E. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised Edition edited by George J. Firmage
Shards (Fragments Of Verses) by Lorenzo Chiera translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in collaboration with Massimiliano Chiamenti
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby: An Edition Of The Manuscript edited by James L. W. West III and Don C. Skemer
Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves with an introduction by Miranda Seymour
How Old Is The Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, And Historical Study by Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten
The Question Concerning The Thing: On Kant’s Doctrine Of The Transcendental Principles by Martin Heidegger translated by James D. Reid and Benjamin D. Crowe
The Letters Of Flannery O’Connor And Caroline Gordon edited by Christine Flanagan
Pennies On My Eyes by Wilfred Owen
The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, And The Reformation by Diego Pirillo
Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound edited by Timothy Billings
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, And The Art Of Poetry by Adrienne Rich edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert
Selected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich
Five European Plays In English Versions by Tom Stoppard
Life In Culture: Selected Letters Of Lionel Trilling edited by Adam Kirsch
John Updike: Novels 1959-1965: The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of The Farm edited by Christopher Carduff
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography edited by Suzanne Raitt and Ian Blyth
Making Sex Public And Other Cinematic Fantasies by Damon R. Young
New Books Added to Graduate Services in February
Judaism: The Genealogy Of A Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin
Before The Law: The Complete Text of Prejuges by Jacques Derrida
The Jews: A History (Third Edition) by John Efron, Matthias Lehmann, and Steven Weitzman
‘Dearest Squirrel…’: The Intimate Letters Of John Osborne And Pamela Lane edited by Peter Whitebrook
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A. Schneider
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In January
The Complete Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood
Questioning Minds: The Letters Of Guy Davenport & Hugh Kenner edited by Edward M. Burns
Kerouac Beat Painting by Jack Kerouac edited by Sandrina Bandera, Alessandro Castiglioni, Emma Zanella
A Spell To Bless The Silence: Selected Poems by John Montague
Hazards Of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
The Last Will And Testament Of An Extremely Distinguished Dog by Eugene O’Neill
The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume 2: 1956-1963 edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
Taking The Arrow Out Of The Heart: Poems by Alice Walker
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells edited by Nicole Lobdell and Nancee Reeves
The Red Wheelbarrow And Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In December
Taste by Giorgio Agamben
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joseph Conrad: The Nigger Of The ‘Narcissus’ edited by Allan H. Simmons
Barracoon: The Story Of The Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston edited by Deborah G. Plant and foreword by Alice Walker
Visions Of Cody, Visions Of Gerard, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Chinese Pleasure Book by Michael Nylan
Dis Mem Ber: And Other Stories Of Mystery And Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
The Incandescent by Michel Serres
The Complete Works Of Evelyn Waugh Volume 16: Rossetti: His Life And Works edited by Michael G. Brennan
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In November
The History Of Russian Literature by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler
China Doll by David Mamet
Mary McCarthy: Novels 1942-1963 edited by Thomas Mallon
Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 edited by Thomas Mallon
John O’Hara: Stories edited by Charles McGrath
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In October
The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Joseph Conrad: The Rover edited by Alexandre Fachard and J.H. Stape
David Jones On Religion, Politics, And Culture: Unpublished Prose edited by Thomas Berenato, Anne Price-Owen, and Kathleen Henderson Staudt
W.B. Yeats’s Robartes-Aherne Writings Featuring The Making Of His “Stories Of Michael Robartes And His Friends” edited by Wayne K. Chapman
New Books Added To The Graduate Services Collection In September
Karman: A Brief Treatise On Action, Guilt, And Gesture by Giorgio Agamben translated by Adam Kotsko
Later Novels: Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head by James Baldwin edited by Darryl Pinckney
Album: Unpublished Correspondence And Texts by Roland Barthes translated by Jody Gladding
The Odyssey by Homer translated by Emily Wilson
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, And Newly Translated Writings edited by Todd Tietchen and translated by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
The Politics Of Memory And Identity In Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) by Geoffrey Koziol
Love + Hate: Stories And Essays by Hanif Kureishi
Talking To Brick Walls: A Series Of Presentations In The Chapel At Sainte-Anne Hospital by Jacques Lacan translated by A.R. Price
Conversations With W.S. Merwin edited by Michael Wutz and Hal Crimmel
The Bag Apron: The Poet And His Community by John Montague
The Origin Of Others by Toni Morrison with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dissenting Words: Interviews With Jacques Ranciere edited and translated by Emiliano Battista
God’s Zeal: The Battle Of The Three Monotheisms by Peter Sloterdijk
Reading Marx by Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda, and Agon Hamza
Community and RDM at CarpentryCon 2018
Between both organizations, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry have more than two decades of experience teaching foundational computing and data science skills to researchers through their volunteer-led workshops. In 2018, these organizations merged to become the Carpentries, and at the end of May, Research Data Management team members and Carpentry instructors Scott Peterson, who is also the Head of the Morrison Library and Graduate Services Library, and Josh Quan, who is the Library’s Data Librarian, attended the first CarpentryCon at University College Dublin in Ireland. This event brought together Carpentry members from across the globe to share knowledge, develop skills, and strategize about how to build strong local communities around teaching computational skills and good data practices that can have long lasting and far reaching effects for researchers. The theme of the conference was building locally and connecting globally, which were central to the keynotes, trainings, workshops, poster session, lightning talks, and meet-ups that featured views and ideas from all parts of the world.
Photo by Berenice Batut
With a volunteer base coming from more than 60 member organizations spread out over 10 countries, community and diversity are what keep the Carpentries moving forward. Valerie Aurora’s opening keynote, Focus On Allies, set the tone for the inclusiveness of this conference by delineating ways to make sure everyone’s voice is not just heard, but listened to. Her guidelines for and approaches to confronting institutional inequity by empowering targets, those in the minority, and identifying allies, those with the social capital and sensitivity to influence change, produced examples of how to run better meetings where everyone has a voice, and how to engage with colleagues who refuse to see the need for change. By focusing on changing the culture of just “checking the box” on diversity and inclusion that can be found in tech companies and academia, Valerie’s keynote reminded everyone that the conference was not just about improving how computing and data science can be taught, but on how they can be taught to everyone equally.
Greg Wilson, the founder of Software Carpentry, gave a keynote echoing some of Valerie’s concerns by pointing out that to change the system, you need to organize and fight, as “inertia is the fifth element of the the universe.” While Greg spoke about this challenge in starting Software Carpentry, his keynote was focused on endings and how the merger of the two carpentries signaled it was now time to leave things in someone else’s hands. He gave the audience his ten simple rules for leaving, and noted that the English language doesn’t have a word that is the opposite of mistake. He reminded everyone that the most important part about the Carpentries was that it was teaching people how to teach, and in order to keep things fresh, change one thing every time you teach to make the instruction seem new.
Other highlights included keynote presentations by Desmond Higgins and Anelda van der Walt. Desmond’s presentation on the history of the Clustal Package served as an example of what needs to be done to keep a project, program, or tool relevant over the long term. Andela van der Walt’s keynote, It Takes a Global Village, was an overview on the Carpentries in Africa. In order to provide a more complete view of such a large continent, after an introductory speech about the Carpentries Africa task force, Andela turned her keynote over to members of the task force to discuss their activities in their respective African countries. Mesfin Diro, Lactatia Motsuku, Erika Mias, Katrin Tirok, Caroline F. Ajilogba, Kayleigh Lino, and Juan Steyn spoke about building vibrant R and Python communities in Ethiopia and South Africa, what is was like to be a part of the Africa Carpentries instructor community, how the task force is supporting instructors in Africa, the diversity of the disciplines, languages, and cultures of the learners taking Carpentry workshops in African countries, and how they have found funding to put on these workshops. The international reputation of the Carpenties was on full display through the many different voices in this keynote. These presentations brought the theme of building locally and connecting globally to the forefront, as the Carpentries Africa task force members demonstrated how they were able to connect their various communities across Africa in order for the Carpenties to have a greater impact globally. Both Anelda’s and Desmond’s keynotes exhibited how dedication, perseverance, and teamwork are necessary for sustainability across projects and organizations.
Photo by Berenice Batut
Library Carpentry is the latest Carpentry to become involved with the Carpentries, and over the three days there were a few session that focused on teaching computing skills to librarians. A session on the incubation period of Library Carpentry outlined what is needed in creating a Carpentry. This backstory about Library Carpentry and what needs to be asked in order to create a set of successful workshops for another Carpentry community was nicely bookended two days later with a session on Library Carpentry onboarding that focused on what Library Carpentry needs to do going forward to make an even greater impact in training librarians across the world. A lightning talk on upskilling librarians in South Africa and a session on teaching the Carpentries in a university were also helpful in seeing how teaching Carpentry lessons for library staff at UC Berkeley might be done. Additionally, Josh Quan, UC Berkeley Data Librarian as well as RDM team member, presented a poster sharing the results of an undergraduate library fellowship program that integrated Carpentry teaching principles such as lesson design, cognitive load, and learner motivation into the curriculum. Sessions on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles and an incubating HPC (High Performance Computing) Carpentry were also very useful in seeing how other places tackle issues relevant to RDM and Berkeley Research Computing at UC Berkeley.
The growth and impact the Carpentries are having across the world was demonstrated over the three days of CarpentryCon. This growth has created new challenges for the Carpentries though, and during the conference Tracy addressed the state of the Carpentries and the communication strategies being developed to deal with this growth. The new website, the Carpentries Handbook, and the Carpentry Clippings newsletter have been developed in the last year to help members find answers to questions they might have. There are also weekly discussion sessions that members can join to keep in touch with others in the Carpentries. Tracy stressed that training and community of practice are the Carpentries strength, and one can always reach out to it when you don’t know the answer. This is the power of a strong community, and this is something researchers working with data and technology need. CarpentryCon reinforced what a strong community can accomplish, and the ideas and practices at CarpentryCon can be used to strengthen the Carpentry and RDM communities that exists between the UC Berkeley Library, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the UC Berkeley campus as a whole.
New Books Added to The Graduate Services Collection in August
More Than True: The Wisdom Of Fairy Tales by Robert Bly
The Peace Of God by Geoffrey Koziol
The Book Of Ephraim by James Merrill annotated and introduced by Stephen Yenser
Adrienne Rich Poetry And Prose Second Edition edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelphi, Albert Gelphi, and Brett Miller
Daily Bag Check Service in Graduate Services
Starting August 1st, Graduate Services will hold your belongings if you need to leave the room for part of the day. Just give your things to the Graduate Services employee at the front desk and in return you will receive a bag clip with a number on it to identify your bag. All belonging will need to be picked up before Graduate Services closes each day.