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A Conversation with Jacob Geller In-Person / Online
Join popular video essayist, critic, and creator Jacob Geller for a virtual talk and Q&A sponsored by the Digital Literacy Initiatives and Studios at the University Libraries. Geller is known for his...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- The Goodall Room (Newman 101), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 22 seats left
Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online
PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 19, 2026
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- Time:
- All Day Event
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event
Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person
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:
- Thursday, February 19, 2026
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Categories:
- Event > Data Science
Reputable or Rubish? Spotting the Predators and the Paper Mills in Today's Scholarly Journal Landscape Online
The Open Access movement has many, many benefits to getting scholarship and research out to everyone, but it has also created an environment with less-than savory players. How can you determine if...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 19, 2026
- Time:
- 12:15pm - 12:45pm
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 21 seats left
Quilting and Hand Sewing Crafternoon In-Person
Learn hand sewing techniques and take home your own small quilted block.
Crafternoons provide informal arts instruction for all levels. All supplies provided and free of charge. Attendees are...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 19, 2026
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Prototyping Studio (Newman 430), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registrations are fully booked!
Reputable or Rubish? Spotting the Predators and the Paper Mills in Today's Scholarly Journal Landscape Online
The Open Access movement has many, many benefits to getting scholarship and research out to everyone, but it has also created an environment with less-than savory players. How can you determine if...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 19, 2026
- Time:
- 5:15pm - 5:45pm
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 25 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, February 23, 2026
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
Getting the Most Out of Your Citation Manager Online
Citation managers like EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero are powerful tools that can help you save, organize, and cite your references. Their use can also help improve your workflow and make the research...
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- Date:
- Monday, February 23, 2026
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 30 seats left
Data wrangling and visualization with R Online
This hands-on, participatory workshop focuses on data wrangling and visualization using the tidyverse set of packages in R. Attendees will practice cleaning and wrangling tabular data and become...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 16 seats left
Advanced LaTeX for ETDs and More Online
Looking for a different platform besides Word or Google for your thesis or dissertation? Or do you want to go beyond the basics in LaTeX? Come learn more about working with LaTeX in Overleaf for...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 45 seats left
Programming with Python In-Person
Join us for this in-person workshop to help get started on working with data in Python!
This hands-on, participatory workshop focuses on foundational programming tools for simplifying, clarifying,...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Torgersen 3310 Classroom, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 25 seats left
Archival Adventures: Civil War Diary of a Confederate Teen, Part 6 Online
It's time for an adventure! In 1861, 14-year-old Frances, "Fannie," Murdoch picks up a pen as the Civil War picks up around her. Raised on a Mississippi cotton plantation, her life is filled with...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Papercrafts and Zine Making Crafternoon In-Person
Discover the power of paper by learning to make zines, origami, and other papercrafts at the Prototyping Studio.
Crafternoons provide informal arts instruction for all levels. All supplies provided...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Prototyping Studio (Newman 430), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 13 seats left
Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online
PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 26, 2026
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- Time:
- All Day Event
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event
Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person
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:
- Thursday, February 26, 2026
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Categories:
- Event > Data Science
Systematic Review Workshop In-Person
Join us on Thursday, February 26, from 12-1 pm ET, and meet the Evidence Synthesis Services (ESS) team. During this in-person workshop, hosted by RGSA in partnership with University Libraries,...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 26, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- 4 Riverside, Room G101 A&B, Health Sciences & Technology Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 50 seats left
Crafting Pop-Up: Button Making In-Person
Join us on the 4th floor of Newman to make some button badges! This pop up event will run from 2-4pm with drop in participation. All materials provided are free, and the crafts made are yours to keep!...
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- Date:
- Friday, February 27, 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Project Design Studio (Newman 419) (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Categories:
- Workshop
OER and Tenure and Promotion at Virginia Tech Online
In June 2026, Virginia Tech added open educational resources (OER) and open source software (OSS) to university-level Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. This session will review this clarification,...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 2, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Advanced Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop > Open Education
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 49 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 2, 2026
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
AI-assisted Qualitative Coding in atlas.ti Online
Create, organize, and manage qualitative projects manually or with assistance from OpenAI in atlas.ti. Code qualitative text and audio/video recordings, analyze and summarize patterns in your data,...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 2, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 29 seats left
AI Tools for Researchers & Publishing Tips Online
This workshop is for anyone, whether you have never used an AI tool before or use them daily! Are you curious about AI tools designed for researchers? Or just want to learn about options available to...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 2, 2026
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 89 seats left
Connecting the Opens: Open Education Week 2026 In-Person / Online
Join the University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 2, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Newman 207A, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 134 seats left
2026 FutureScapes Exhibit Opening In-Person
FutureScapes, a student-curated exhibit from the Securitas Cybersecurity Living-Learning Community, will open March 2 with an unveiling and interactive event from 6:30 - 8 p.m. in Newman Library’s...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 2, 2026
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- 4th Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni
- Categories:
- Event Exhibit
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 100 seats left
Understanding Creative Commons Licenses Online
Are you curious about Creative Commons licenses? We will discuss what they signify, why they are valuable, what you can do with them -- and how. This session is relevant to anyone who works with...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 3, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop > Open Education
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 99 seats left
Data visualization with ggplot2 Online
This hands-on, participatory workshop is designed for those with basic R programming experience that are looking to take their data visualization skills to the next level. Join us to learn about...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 3, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 2:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 18 seats left