Upcoming Events

Sep 10

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

An Intro to Web Scraping

Interested in learning the basics of web scraping? Want to learn how extract data from websites? Bring your laptop and join us as we build a functioning web scraper program from start to finish!

• September 10, 2024
• 10:00am - 11:00am
• Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor

Sep 10

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Shop Talk: Carving and Printing Linoleum and Woodblocks

Join us for a demonstration and tutorial all about the carving and printing of linoleum and woodblocks.

• September 10, 2024
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level

Sep 10

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students Only

Career Services Resume Lab

Join the Career Services program for this interactive, hands-on session. Bring your laptop and resume; we’ll provide the tips and tools to perfect your resume and have advisors on hand to answer individual questions.

• September 10, 2024
• 2:00pm - 3:00pm
• Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor

Sep 10

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Laser Engraved Map Night Lights

Learn how to use the laser cutter and engrave a map of any location you’d like (hometown, first date location, etc.) to make into a mini lamp

• September 10, 2024
• 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• Education Commons TinkerLab

Sep 10

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Creating Map Layouts in QGIS

In this workshop participants will learn how to create professional-looking maps in QGIS, a free and open-source GIS software,  including customizing the appearance of maps, adding labels and legends, and creating interactive maps with various layer styles and symbols.

• September 10, 2024
• 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor

Sep 12

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Excel Basics: Visualize Data

Want images that speak louder than words? Practice a process for visualizing data in Microsoft Excel so you can communicate your findings in class and on the job.

• September 12, 2024
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Hybrid: Virtual and in-person at Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 12

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: James DePreist and Marian Anderson

Head of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library & Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center Liza Vick will bring out a poetry chapbook by conductor James DePreist, paired with a handwritten letter from DePreist to his aunt, contralto Marian Anderson.

• September 12, 2024
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Sep 12

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Art and Action in Movable Books and Paper: from the Collection of Ellen G. K. Rubin

To celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions, Ellen G. K. Rubin, better known as “The Popuplady” for her amazing collection of pop-up and movable books, will give a talk drawing on her forty years of collecting.

• September 12, 2024
• 4:00pm - 8:00pm
• Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 12

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Bookbinding: Button Hole Stitch

Come and bind your own book at Common Press! In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn the Button Hole Stitch Binding, a variation of sewing used in medieval limp bindings.

• September 12, 2024
• 4:00pm - 7:00pm
• Fisher B Level Seminar Room, Fisher Fine Arts Library