Poster Abstract: Data and computing have become an integral part of academic research. Through our experiences talking to and working with researchers, we have realized most early career scientists come ill-prepared to work with their research data or build, use and share software. One popular approach that has been available has been the emergence of the Software, Data & Library Carpentries movement. The Carpentries were created to provide a volunteer network of instructors and collaboratively authored open lessons to teach participants the basics of software and data skills. For the past 2 years, the UC San Diego Library has worked on developing a data science education plan that would have impact on, improving our data skills, assisting early career researchers, and make the library more relevant and credible in the data science education space. Through teaching the carpentries at UC San Diego, we have recognized patterns in the use of similar research tools and methods across many traditionally unrelated disciplines. We saw this as an opportunity for the library to play an important role in fostering communities around software tools, research methods across multiple disciplines. This poster will illustrate and provide information about how we used our affiliation with the Software Carpentry Foundation to develop an educational initiative, and pursue our goal towards building a community of instructors and participants engaged in improving their research.