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Archival Adventures - Harper's Weekly Journal 1861 Online
It's time for an adventure! What were Americans reading as the nation teetered on the edge insurrection? This week, we're diving into the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1916), the influential...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Josie's Office Hours In-Person
Join Josie the Therapy Dog from Cook Counseling for her weekly office hours located on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. If you are an individual with a disability...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 17, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library)
Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person / Online
Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 17, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 20 seats left
Introduction to Open Textbooks In-Person
Do your students frequently ask if the textbook for your course is really required? Do you suspect that some, perhaps many of your students don't buy the book? Do you want to explore some relatively...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 17, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:20pm - 1:10pm
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 20 seats left
How to take advantage of Virginia Tech’s open access policy In-Person
Since March 2021, all Virginia Tech researchers can provide immediate open access to the accepted version of scholarly articles through the university’s repository, VTechWorks, regardless of their...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 17, 2025
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event
Craft & Chat: Crochet and Celebrating Small Wins In-Person
Whether you're a crochet pro or have never picked up a crochet hook in your life, come learn how to make a crochet lanyard while discussing why we should be celebrating even the smallest...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Project Design Studio (Newman 419) (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 10 seats left
Archival Adventures - Erotica of the Past Online
It's time for an adventure! This week we're diving into erotica of the past to uncover the secrets of our ancestors' loves lives! From illustrated stories revealing the sexual habits of Victorian...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
VTSCOM Library Lunch & Learn In-Person
Please join us at the VTCSOM library to learn more about resources available to you as a VTC student.
On the first and third Thursday of every month, VTCSOM Library staff will host Lunch & Learn...
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- Date:
- Thursday, March 20, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:15pm - 12:45pm
- Location:
- Health Sciences & Technology Campus
- Audience:
- Graduate Students
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 25 seats left
Library Game Night In-Person
Join us in the new Gaming Studio in Newman Library for a fun night of board games, TTRPGs, video games, and VR! Plus, opportunities to connect with courses, research, and organizations related to...
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- Date:
- Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Game Studio (Newman 4th floor)
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 100 seats left
Josie's Office Hours In-Person
Join Josie the Therapy Dog from Cook Counseling for her weekly office hours located on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. If you are an individual with a disability...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 24, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library)
Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person / Online
Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 24, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 20 seats left
Elements Faculty Activity System: Overview Workshop and Drop-In Q&A In-Person
Virginia Tech Elements, a faculty activity repository, is used for a variety of purposes, including data for department, college, or broader institutional analytics and reports, the Virginia Tech...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:00am
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 49 seats left
Craft & Chat: Quilting and Community Building In-Person
Learn hand-sewing techniques and make your own quilted block to take home. We'll talk about the history of quilting bees and how to build community through craft traditions.
Craft & Chats provide...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Project Design Studio (Newman 419) (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 9 seats left
Incorporating Media into Digital Scholarship with Knight Lab Tools In-Person / Online
In this workshop, we will talk about five tools from Knight Lab [https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/] (Timeline, Storyline, StoryMap, Soundcite, and Juxtapose). These tools can be integrated...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Torgersen 3310, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 72 seats left
Intro to R and RStudio Online
Learn how to work with data in R and RStudio, whether or not you have any experience with coding or data analysis.
This hands-on workshop is open to anyone who wants to work with data in R. You do...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 45 seats left
Archival Adventures: Rex, by Harl Vincent Online
It's time for an adventure! This week, we dive back into author and sci-fi historian Sam Moskowitz's list of genre classics from his 1940 letter to the editor of Comet. Today's story: Rex by Harl...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Virtual Chat with Fabio Zinno - Head of Machine Learning at EA Sports In-Person / Online
Fabio Zinno, Head of Machine Learning at EA Sports, will be joining us virtually to discuss machine learning and AI in the video game industry. Attendees may join us online via Zoom or in Newman...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Location:
- SCALE-UP Classroom (Newman 101S), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 140 seats left
Intro to Unreal Engine In-Person
Learn the basics of creating virtual worlds with Unreal Engine! Unreal Engine is a free software used by developers all over the world. All attendees are eligible to enter a raffle for a limited...
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- Date:
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Torgersen 3310, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 15 seats left
Intro to Python and JupyterLab Online
This hands-on workshop for novices will cover basic programming skills in Python using the JupyterLab interface.
The workshop is open to anyone. You do not need any experience to participate, but you...
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- Date:
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 47 seats left
Epcot's Birthday Party In-Person
Join the University Libraries, Hokie Wellness, and Cook Counseling Center in celebrating therapy dog Epcot's 4th birthday. There will be free cake, prizes, and fun. If you are an individual with a...
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- Date:
- Friday, March 28, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Event
Josie's Office Hours In-Person
Join Josie the Therapy Dog from Cook Counseling for her weekly office hours located on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. If you are an individual with a disability...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 31, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library)
Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person / Online
Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 31, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 20 seats left
Data wrangling and visualization with R Online
This hands-on workshop is designed for those with basic R programming experience. It will focus on data wrangling and visualization using the tidyverse set of packages.
The workshop is open to...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 46 seats left
Archival Adventures: USS Dacotah Engineer's Journal, Part 10 – Seeking the “290” Online
It’s time for an adventure! This week we return to the journal of Phillip Peltz, Chief Engineer of the USS Dacotah. After completing quarantine and repairs in New York, the ship sets out in pursuit...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Virtual Chat with Doug Cockle - Voiceover Actor In-Person / Online
Doug Cockle, an actor best known as the voice of Geralt of Rivea in The Witcher franchise, will be joining us virtually to discuss voice acting in the video game industry. Attendees may join us online...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- The Goodall Room (Newman 101), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 140 seats left