Research Data & Digital Scholarship Upcoming Events

Jan 21

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Manuscript Studies Interest Group: Recipes

The Manuscript Studies Interest Group (MSIG) is a regular meeting for people who want to get up close and personal with a variety of handwritten objects.

• January 21, 2026
• 2:00pm - 3:00pm
• Kislak Center Vitale II, Rm 623, 6th Floor

Jan 21

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Bookbinding Workshop: Case Binding with Jess Ortegon

Learn how to make your own case bound book, also known as a hardcover book. This workshop will cover every step in the bookbinding process, from sewing paper sheets to creating and attaching covers.

• January 21, 2026
• 4:00pm - 7:00pm
• Fisher B Level Seminar Room

Jan 22

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Austerlitz Memorbuch

On January 22, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 778, the memorbuch for the community of Austerlitz (Czech Republic), dating from early 17th century.

• January 22, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jan 22

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

PitchBook 101

Join this workshop focused on PitchBook's content, navigation and personalization features to get you started with using the financial platform.

• January 22, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:45pm
• Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244

Jan 23

• Lecture

Open to the Public

C is for Collective: The Political Work of Wanda Gág

This talk by Alicia Meyer examines children's book author Wanda Gág's work through the lens of her feminist politics.

• January 23, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)

Jan 23

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Studio Use Training

This one-hour intensive session is focused on proper studio practices to enable participants to use Common Press independently as an advanced user.

• January 23, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Common Press Space

Jan 26

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Ethically Making & Sharing Data

This session will help you assess the potential benefits and risks of collecting, analyzing, and sharing data and provide you with some practical tools to help you assess data needs and assume an ethical data practice in your next project.

• January 26, 2026
• 10:00am - 11:00am
• Hybrid: Online and at Research Data and Digital Scholarship Exchange (RDDSx), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor

Jan 26

• Workshop

Open to Penn Faculty and Staff

Assignment & Quiz Basics

This virtual workshop will focus on using Assignments and Quizzes in Canvas. Topics covered include creating assignments with various submission types, creating quizzes with multiple question types, configuring quiz and assignment settings, and using Assignment Groups.

• January 26, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:45pm
• Online

Jan 26

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Exploring Handwritten Text Recognition for Manuscript Studies with 2025-2026 SIMS Fellows

This discussion will present the work of two 2025-2026 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Graduate Student Fellows and a 2025 Penn Libraries Data Science and Society Research Assistant exploring Handwritten Text Recognition technologies for use on a variety of historic and archival documents for future in-depth research.

• January 26, 2026
• 3:00pm - 4:00pm
• Hybrid