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Workshop Introduction to QGIS A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on the open-source geographic information system: QGIS3. We will explore the interface, add and visualize data,... Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM - Online
Workshop MEDLINE for Nursing Students This workshop, designed for nursing students, provides an overview of how to search the medical database MEDLINE. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/yii9o6zl Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Online
Workshop Data Visualization 2 (interactive visualizations with Shiny, including hosting a Shiny server) Creating interactive visualizations with Shiny in RStudio, and delivering Shiny visualizations on the web and hosting a Shiny server. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register at https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/14867275 to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect. Supplemental materia... Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Black Bibliography Project Wikidata Edit-A-Thon Alexander Library, Hatchery Innovation Studio (ground floor) | Register Here The Black Bibliography Project is building a database of Black book history to highlight the social networks and aesthetics of Black print culture from the 1700s to the present. Come learn more about the BBP and Wikidata... Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 12:00 - 3:00 PM - New Brunswick
Speaker Series Courtly Intrigue and Whispers as Weapons with Historical Fiction Queen Philippa Gregory Coined as the “queen of British historical fiction,” Philippa Gregory returns to the infamous Tudor Court with a tale that is both timely and timeless. We invite you to sit down with us for an intriguing conversation with Gregory about her newest novel Boleyn Traitor (forthcoming October 14, 2025). ... Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Workshop Data Publication 2 (publishing to data repositories and creating R packages) Sharing your data and code is the essential step in maximizing the impact and usefulness of your research. This workshop first reviews repositories for data publication such as Dataverse, ICPSR, OSF, Zenodo, and more. Then we turn to a detailed discussion of building R packages. R Packages are an ex... Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop AI Literacy: Beyond the Hype Go beyond the hype of generative AI to identify and debunk common myths and misconceptions, gaining a clearer understanding of how these powerful tools actually work. Our discussion will delve into the critical, ethical, and societal considerations of AI. We will examine how biases in training data ... Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Network Analysis for Humanists We will use performance data extracted from Dracor (short for Drama Corpora) to create and analyze a character co-appearance network in this introductory workshop. Originating in the social sciences, network analysis is a method in which relationships are studied as a system of nodes and connections... Monday, November 3, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Online
Workshop Data Sources 1 (major data resources, locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups) Overview of major data resources, methods of locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register at https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/14867329 to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect. Supplemental mate... Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Speaker Series Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity with Award-Winning Journalist Joseph Lee You’re invited to learn from journalist and author Joseph Lee as he chats online with us about his stirring memoir, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity. In it, he explores Indigenous identity in proximity to land that serves as an iconic vacationing sp... Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online