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Workshop Woman of the World: Political Thinker Hannah Arendt Transcribe-a-Thon This transcribe-a-thon will help the Library of Congress By the People project transcribe the letters of Hannah Arendt. Training on the transcription of primary source materials will be provided. Bring a laptop! Participants may come or leave at any time during the event. Refreshments will be availa... Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Workshop Newark Campus Sources for Job Hunters Dana Library and the Office of Career Resources and Exploration offer a wealth of information and assistance to undergraduate and graduate students looking for jobs. Attend this workshop to learn how we can help with your job search. Instructors: Jonathan Torres Business Librarian at Dana Library an... Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice You’re invited to a riveting conversation with bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. It’s been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout... Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 7:00 - 8:00 PM - Online
Workshop R Graphics with ggplot2 The ggplot2 package from the tidyverse provides extensive and flexible graphical capabilities within a consistent framework. This session introduces the main features of ggplot2. Some prior familiarity with R is assumed (packages, structure, syntax), but the presentation can be followed without thi... Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Systematic, Scoping, and Literature Reviews, Oh My! An Introduction to Evidence Synthesis in the Social Sciences Are you a social science faculty member or graduate student interested in learning about systematic or scoping reviews? Are you curious about what these methods entail? This workshop is for you! Evidence synthesis methods are growing in popularity among social science disciplines, but many faculty ... Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 5:30 - 7:00 PM - Online
Workshop Love Data Week! DMPTool for NIH and NSF Data Management Plans Create data management and sharing plans that meet funder requirements using DMPTool. Features of this plan writing tool will be demonstrated, with tips for writing plans for NIH and NSF. Information about selecting data repositories will also be presented. There will be time at the end for Q&A ... Thursday, February 13, 2025, 1:00 - 2:00 PM - Online
Workshop Finding and Creating Textual Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences Just because the Libraries subscribe doesn't necessarily mean that we have text and data mining (TDM) rights. This workshop provides a brief tour through the rights and technical issues associated with the creation of textual data for computational text analysis in the humanities and interpretive so... Thursday, February 13, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Public Event Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon Douglass Day 2025 will focus on materials from the "African American Perspectives" collection at the Library of Congress. Training on the transcription of primary source materials will be provided. Bring a laptop! Participants may come or leave at any time during the event. Learn more about Douglass... Friday, February 14, 2025, 12:00 - 3:00 PM - New Brunswick
Workshop Introduction to NVivo NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software that helps researchers manage, code, and markup data for both mixed methods and qualitative studies. This workshop introduces the NVivo workspace and basic features, including organizing data, making mind maps, and getting acquainted with data coding. It... Friday, February 14, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Online
Speaker Series I Am Nobody’s Slave: An Author Talk with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Lee Hawkins We welcome you to our conversation with journalist and author Lee Hawkins as he talks to us about the examination of his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience in this riveting memoir, I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free. I Am Nobody’s Slave tells t... Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online