Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Excel for Librarians
$250.00
Dates: June 2 - June 29October 6 - November 2
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
At some point in your library career you will interact with a spreadsheet, be it one that contains data you have entered, someone else has entered, or data you have exported from a system. With Excel, you can easily manage and wrangle structured data, even if it is not in an Excel format. This class will teach the basics of working in Excel, including entering, structuring, manipulating, importing and exporting data. It will also cover some Excel functions and tools for basic data analysis. The class assignments will incorporate practical data tasks that you would encounter in a library or information management setting.
By the end of the class, students will:
- Learn good practices for data entry, spreadsheet structure, and data organization
- Understand data formats and how to troubleshoot common formatting errors (such as dates)
- Be able to sort and filter data and write basic Excel functions
- Learn how to perform cleanup, quality control, and data validation using Excel’s data tools
- Learn to import and export data to CSV and tab separated files
This course can be taken as one of eight courses needed to earn our Certificate in Cataloging and Technical Services, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Course Description
At some point in your library career you will interact with a spreadsheet, be it one that contains data you have entered, someone else has entered, or data you have exported from a system. With Excel, you can easily manage and wrangle structured data, even if it is not in an Excel format. This class will teach the basics of working in Excel, including entering, structuring, manipulating, importing and exporting data. It will also cover some Excel functions and tools for basic data analysis. The class assignments will incorporate practical data tasks that you would encounter in a library or information management setting.
By the end of the class, students will:
- Learn good practices for data entry, spreadsheet structure, and data organization
- Understand data formats and how to troubleshoot common formatting errors (such as dates)
- Be able to sort and filter data and write basic Excel functions
- Learn how to perform cleanup, quality control, and data validation using Excel’s data tools
- Learn to import and export data to CSV and tab separated files
This course can be taken as one of eight courses needed to earn our Certificate in Cataloging and Technical Services, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith is the Monograph Collections and Metadata Librarian at Douglas College and an adjunct faculty member at UBC SLIS where he teaches Project Management for Information Professionals. He has mainly worked in Academic libraries but has also worked in Start-ups. Prior to becoming a librarian, he worked in the tourism sector where he developed a railway reporting network using SharePoint and MS Access. He often presents workshops and talks on databases and Project Management.
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