
- Symposium
LOVE Environment Data Day 2023
- Feb. 17, 2023
- 9:30am - 4:30pm
- Various locations; see individual events for details
With engaging events, compelling lectures, and skill-building workshops, the Penn Libraries is a hub for cultural and educational activity at the University of Pennsylvania. Many library events and exhibitions are open to the public.
Presented by the University of Pennsylvania's Music Department, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library.
Douglass Day is a celebration of 19th-century Black achievement held annually on February 14, the day Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate his birthday. Each year communities gather at universities and colleges across the country to transcribe documents and help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history.
Learn the ins and outs of the publishing process through a series of workshops hosted by the Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn.
In this virtual workshop, librarian Joanna Thompson will walk you through the basics of using Zotero to save and organize sources as well as generate citations.
The second Wednesday of each month, come to the Annenberg library for an hour of exchange and exploration. Each month, we will focus on an aspect of research (like keeping up with new publications, collecting online sources, navigating survey data, writing) through a conversation and activity. The goal is to learn as a community of scholars and to act as a resource for each other.
Store bought cards are expensive and impersonal. Handmade cards are the best way to express how much you care. Stop by this Pop-Up event and make your own cards for friends, family and signficant others. We will have watercolor cards, card stock, envelopes, heat foil transfer, markers, stamps, along with other great ways to personalize the perfect card.
The R Penn Group (RPG) presented by the Research Data & Digital Scholarship team at Penn Libraries is an initiative that meets to discuss, learn, and collaborate on topics and projects related to statistics, mapping, data wrangling, visualization, and analysis with R programming language through community focused problem solving.
RefWorks provides an easy way to organize your PDFs and save your references as you collect them.
Yasmin Faghihi, Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library and the editor of the online union catalog for manuscripts from the Islamicate world FIHRIST, discusses the problems and potential of name authorities in manuscript research.
Data visualizations are found everywhere!
This introduction to leather working is the perfect handmade gift for yourself or a loved one. No prior exerience is needed. This workshop will cover the basics of cutting out a leather pattern, hole punching, saddle stitching and adding snaps.
Make food safe molds using 3D prints to create fun chocolate gifts for the ones you care. In conjunction with last week's programming, we can use the 3D prints of people's heads to create molds that you can reuse to make chocolates, soaps, candles, and more.