This year the University of Rochester will be participating in “GIS Day” by holding a student Story Map competition including accompanying training workshops. What is GIS Day? According to ESRI’s website, GIS Day is an: “…international celebration of GIS technology. GIS is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data to help us …
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Digital Projects and Platforms Workshop Series
Overview Throughout the six session series we will explore options for furthering student engagement through digital tools and project-based assignments. The first five sessions will be thematically grouped workshops that will include a showcase of assignments, potential tools, and exercises designed to help you think about how you might incorporate similar approaches in your classes. …
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Digital Pedagogy Workshop 2019
Thoughtful Pedagogy, Innovative Projects The digital pedagogy workshop series began in August 2018 as a means to cultivate a learning community around digital pedagogy among the University of Rochester faculty and staff in an environment where faculty, librarians, and Digital Scholarship Lab specialists could work together to inspire new collaborations. Over the course of two …
Library Consortium Receives Grant to Support Data and Digital Literacy
Ninety percent of the world’s data is only two years old, and the tools, methods, and platforms to explore and use it are continually evolving. The overwhelming pace at which information and technology are created is making digital and data literacy both a high priority and a daunting task for librarians. These literacies are increasingly …
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Digital Pedagogy Workshop
Digital Pedagogy On August 9th and 10th, Stu Jordan (Faculty Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) and Emily Sherwood (Director, Digital Scholarship Lab) co-facilitated the Digital Pedagogy Workshop aimed at helping faculty develop a project for a course that utilized digital tools and methods. Ten faculty members from seven departments spent a day …
RCL Mini-Digital Scholarship Institute
ARL DSI The past few years, members of the Digital Scholarship Lab have helped teach classes at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Digital Scholarship Institute. The institute aims to introduce library professionals to digital scholarship methods and tools in order to broaden their knowledge base and help them understand the demands of supporting these …
Accolades and Accomplishments
This spring, we have a lot to celebrate at the Digital Scholarship Lab. Two of our own were recognized for their service to River Campus Libraries and one of our graduate students completed his degree.
2018 Spring Showcase
The Digital Scholarship Lab at River Campus Libraries hosted a spring showcase event highlighting a few of our recent collaborations. Short flash talks were followed by a digital poster session and reception in the Humanities Center lounge. When: Tuesday, May 15, 4:30pm-6:00pm (presentations start at 4:45pm) Where: Humanities Center, 2nd Floor, Rush Rhees Library Speakers: Elya Zhang …
Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History
River Campus Libraries and the Out Alliance