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Intro to Python and JupyterLab (Software Carpentry) In-Person / Online
Learn the basics of Python using the JupyterLab interface, including coding and working with data.
This hands-on workshop is open to anyone and based on lessons from Software Carpentry. You do not...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Location:
- UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration has closed.
Intro to Unix and Git: working at the command line (Software Carpentry) In-Person / Online
Learn how to automate repetitive research tasks by working at the Unix command line and track your personal and collaborative work with Git.
This hands-on workshop is open to anyone and based on...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Location:
- UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 31 seats left
Archival Adventures - USS Dacotah Minnesota Engineer's Journal - Part 11 - Journal's End Online
It's time for an adventure! This week we return to the journal of Philip Peltz, Chief Engineer of the USS Dacotah, for the final time. Peltz transfers to the USS Minnesota where he is met with...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
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, May 19, 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
Open Qualitative Data Analysis with QualCoder In-Person / Online
Learn to use QualCoder, a free and open-source qualitative coding and data analysis tool. This workshop will provide introductory training in the principles of deductive and inductive qualitative...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Time:
- 9:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- Online, UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 16 seats left
Mixed Methods Data Analysis with NVivo In-Person / Online
Learn how to leverage NVivo for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis. This workshop will briefly cover project management and coding in NVivo before turning our focus to how queries can be used...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Time:
- 1:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Online, UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 17 seats left
Hands-on digitizing texts with machine learning and AI In-Person
Are you interested in extracting text from scanned images—even poor quality images—and learning more about new advances in optical character recognition (OCR)? Join us for a 3-hour workshop on...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Newman 207A, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 9 seats left
Preparing Data for Input into Geospatial Applications Online
Designed for students, faculty, and researchers new to geospatial mapping (GIS) or working with tabular data, this workshop provides a practical foundation for integrating spreadsheet-based data into...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 47 seats left
Archival Adventures - Ice Cream! with special guest Archivist Kira Online
It's time for an adventure! This week we're joined by resident food historian and archivist, Kira, to learn more about a national staple! Exploring vintage advertisements and cookbooks, Kira will...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures - Twilight by Don A. Stuart Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Graduate Student Research Intensive Online
Are you a graduate student planning to start or continue working on your research project over the summer? If so, the University Libraries is here to support you! Join us for a two-day virtual...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, June 3, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 2 seats left
Archival Adventures - Confederate Housewife's Civil War Journal - Part I Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures - Kitchen Equipment Collection Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures - Harper's Weekly Journal 1863 Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures - The Mole Pirate by Murray Leinster Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 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
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, August 6, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Archival Adventures Online
It's time for an adventure!
Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream