Events & Workshops

A geographic information system (GIS) combines software and digital geographic data to generate maps, tables, and interactive analyses of spatial information. Princeton uses GIS to manage resources, study spatial relationships, and visualize change. The training session is for those with no previous GIS experience. Students will work with ArcGIS Pro, GIS software manufactured by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), and QGIS, a free open-source GIS application, to learn GIS concepts and explore geospatial data.

Attendance at a one-day training session is a prerequisite for SPI 593n, GIS for Public Policy. Other SPI students may take the one-day training if they wish, or may register for other short GIS training sessions available through the Library.

GIS software allows the user to treat the Earth’s surface as a continuous array of numbers. Images and raster datasets can be used to rank suitable locations, estimate change, and display phenomena such as elevation, precipitation, or temperature. The session uses percent impervious surface, distance from streams, and slope to assign each parameter a scale from 1 to 9, and weight the relative suitability of different areas. ArcGIS Pro’s built-in Jupyter notebook will be used to process the data for analysis. This ‘weighted overlay’ method is useful in a variety of contexts. Students will use ArcGIS Pro installed on the classroom’s Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

A 30-minute guided tour with one of the exhibition curators of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

US Census data can be integrated with GIS (geographic information system) boundary files to analyze the spatial relationships of poverty, ethnicity, environmental risk, and other parameters. We will find and download demographic data, combine the data with GIS files, and view the data in QGIS. The QGIS Python console and editor will be used to build a Python script to process data. The session will help any GIS user to include tabular data in spatial analyses. Attendees will use QGIS on the classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop series.

ArcGIS Pro has many different ways to access data sets, display them in a map, and analyze relationships over time and space. US Census data can be integrated with GIS (geographic information system) boundary files to analyze the spatial relationships of poverty, ethnicity, environmental risk, and other parameters. We will find and download demographic data, combine the data with GIS files, and view the data in Pro. ArcGIS Pro has various ways to run these steps: we will introduce Jupyter notebooks, GUI interfaces, and nested commands. The session will help any GIS user to include tabular data in spatial analyses. Attendees will use ArcGIS Pro installed on classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

Private reception and tour of the PUL fall exhibition "In the Company of Good Book: Shakespeare to Morrison"

Registration for Friends members is required. Please email libraryf@princeton.edu for more information.

(Note: this workshop is identical to the workshop on September 22; it is being offered again due to high registrations)

As one of the most popular, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming langauges, Python can be used for a variety of tasks from analyzing data to building websites. This workshop offers a gentle introduction to the core concepts and syntax of the Python language. Participants will practice using Python to work with text-based data in a hands-on and group learning environment. No prior experience with programming is expected, though a laptop with internet connection and a Google Drive account is required.

This session is the first in a three-part series that builds basic skills in Python programming toward working with text-based data in PUL's collections. Future workshops in the series include "Python for Web Scraping" (October 13) and "Python for Text Analysis" (November 20). Materials from all workshops will be made available for those who cannot attend.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool for reference management. Once we have Zotero installed and running, you will learn how to collect your research sources and organize them into a single, searchable interface. We will show you how to create a document and insert the footnotes with the click of a button. You will learn how to, instantly, create the bibliography in ANY of the popular citation styles.

Maps can be extremely effective in communicating knowledge about an area. QGIS has many tools and techniques to design maps. Hands-on exercises will show how to use map-making tools within the software, and introduce common cartographic techniques. The session will discuss how to design maps for a variety of presentation formats. Attendees will use QGIS on classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop series.

Literature mapping is a way of discovering scholarly articles by exploring connections between publications. Similar articles can be linked by citations, authors, funders, keywords, and other metadata. These connections can be explored manually in a database such as Scopus or by the use of free browser-based tools such as Connected Papers, LitMaps and Open Knowledge Maps.

In this session, we will talk about how to use literature mapping to hack into the scholarly conversation on the topic you are exploring and how to produce visual graphs of connected literature using free online tools.

This hands-on workshop is intended for beginners. No previous knowledge of data analysis and/or Stata is required. The session will cover the following topics for Stata: data preparation (cleaning, merging, recoding, etc.), descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to Stata prior to the workshop. Information on accessing Stata can be found here.

Guests of the First-Year Families weekend will be shown around Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, considered one of the largest open-stack libraries in existence. Firestone serves as the main library on campus, home to Special Collections, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Since its founding, the library at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to more than 11 million holdings in approximately 12 buildings throughout the campus. To explore the other branches, please visit the library website for branch opening hours (https://libcal.princeton.edu/hours).

The tour will leave from the lobby. Open to First-Year Families weekend visitors only. Registration is requested, but not required.

The Department of Special Collections is one of the premier repositories of its kind and provides unprecedented opportunities for student research. Its holdings span five millennia and six continents, and many formats, and range from such singular items as an Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 1250 BCE) to the papers of Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison and the records of the American Civil Liberties Union. The department includes the Cotsen Children’s Library, the Scheide Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, home of the University Archives and Public Policy Papers.

Meet in Special Collections, located on the C-Floor of Firestone Library.

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models and modeled data, and other sources for environmental studies research for uranium extraction activities and nuclear waste disposal. Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's geosciences and environmental collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geosciences societies, environmental consultants, mining companies, and other information sources available for Earth (and other planets).

A geographic information system (GIS) combines software and digital geographic data to generate maps, tables, and interactive analyses of spatial information. Princeton uses GIS to manage resources, study spatial relationships, and visualize change. The training session is for those with no previous GIS experience. Students will work with ArcGIS Pro, GIS software manufactured by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), and QGIS, a free open-source GIS application, to learn GIS concepts and explore geospatial data.

Attendance at a one-day training session is a prerequisite for SPI 593n, GIS for Public Policy. Other SPI students may take the one-day training if they wish, or may register for other short GIS training sessions available through the Library.

A 45-minute guided tour with Will Noel, John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

Guests of the First-Year Families weekend will be shown around Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, considered one of the largest open-stack libraries in existence. Firestone serves as the main library on campus, home to Special Collections, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Since its founding, the library at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to more than 11 million holdings in approximately 12 buildings throughout the campus. To explore the other branches, please visit the library website for branch opening hours (https://libcal.princeton.edu/hours).

The tour will leave from the lobby. Open to First-Year Families weekend visitors only.

The Department of Special Collections is one of the premier repositories of its kind and provides unprecedented opportunities for student research. Its holdings span five millennia and six continents, and many formats, and range from such singular items as an Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 1250 BCE) to the papers of Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison and the records of the American Civil Liberties Union. The department includes the Cotsen Children’s Library, the Scheide Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, home of the University Archives and Public Policy Papers.

Meet in Special Collections, located on the C-Floor of Firestone Library.

Guests of the First-Year Families weekend will be shown around Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, considered one of the largest open-stack libraries in existence. Firestone serves as the main library on campus, home to Special Collections, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Since its founding, the library at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to more than 11 million holdings in approximately 12 buildings throughout the campus. To explore the other branches, please visit the library website for branch opening hours (https://libcal.princeton.edu/hours).

The tour will leave from the lobby. Open to First-Year Families weekend visitors only.

The Department of Special Collections is one of the premier repositories of its kind and provides unprecedented opportunities for student research. Its holdings span five millennia and six continents, and many formats, and range from such singular items as an Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 1250 BCE) to the papers of Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison and the records of the American Civil Liberties Union. The department includes the Cotsen Children’s Library, the Scheide Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, home of the University Archives and Public Policy Papers.

Meet in Special Collections, located on the C-Floor of Firestone Library.

Maps can be extremely effective in communicating knowledge about an area. ArcGIS Pro has a variety of tools and techniques to design maps. Hands-on exercises will show how to use map-making tools within the software, and introduce common cartographic techniques. The session will discuss how to design maps for a variety of presentation formats. Attendees will use ArcGIS Pro installed on classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

We hear a lot about how open science or the practice of making research products and processes available to all, is a good thing!

But how do we actually do 'Open Science'?

Join Open Research and Scholarship Librarian Meghan Testerman for this 50-minute session on concrete actions you can take today to open your research processes and research outputs.

This presentation is designed to benefit early career researchers in the natural and life sciences, but anyone with a keen interest in open science is welcome to attend!

Trouble finding literature for your JP or senior thesis?

Stop by this lunchtime session (with lunch!) in the Department of Psychology and learn how to navigate library resources and use literature mapping tools to locate literature for your psychology or neuroscience JP, independent work, or senior thesis.

Lunch will be provided by the Department of Psychology. Please register!

Psychology JP/Thesis Guide: https://libguides.princeton.edu/psyc_jp_thesis

Neuroscience Independent Work/Thesis Guide: https://libguides.princeton.edu/neuro_jp_thesis

GIS users often want to run a process multiple times, changing the inputs, parameters, or summaries generated. QGIS has many ways to help users automate processes. The exercises show users how to use graphic tools in the Processing window, how to run models iteratively, and how to extract commands for use in Python scripts. Students will use QGIS on classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop series.

"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying population, Ryo Morimoto encounters radiation’s shapeshifting effects.

Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, has written one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima in English, “Nuclear Ghost.” In conversation with physicist and co-director of Princeton’s Program in Science and Global Security, Zia Mian, Morimoto presents the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes and their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories for future generations.

Morimoto and Mian will also discuss Princeton's role in nuclear-related research and projects.

This special author talk is brought to you by Global Japan Lab, the Humanities Council, and Princeton University Library.

Attendees can purchase a copy of "Nuclear Ghost" at Labyrinth Books and have it signed by the author at the talk.

In this introduction to GIS workshop, you will use ArcGIS Pro software to explore geographic data, tables and create maps. This workshop will also show how to use the GIS Portal site that Princeton University Library hosts to add geographic data downloaded over the internet, and analyze data and create maps and then share them with the public. No previous GIS experience is needed to take this workshop.

This workshop is an introduction to digital storytelling and some of the platforms that will help you communicate your research to others via the web. Attendees will receive brief overviews of three different Content Management Systems: Omeka-S, Collection Builder, and DPUL. These overviews will include how to get started, platform features, exemplary projects, and who to contact for support.

GIS users often want to run a process multiple times, changing the inputs, parameters, or summaries generated. ArcGIS Pro has many ways to help users automate processes. The exercises show users how to use graphic tools in ModelBuilder, how to run models iteratively, and how to extract arcpy commands for use in Python scripts. Attendees will use ArcGIS Pro install on the classroom's Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

In this class, students will learn how to use GIS (geographic information system) tools to calculate distances between two features, road and river lengths within administrative units, the percentage of shared boundaries between two areas, extract information on polygon neighbors between two areas, and will explore many other analysis tools. Attendees will use QGIS on classroom Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshop series.

Please join us for the annual Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture, featuring artist, painter, graphic designer, set designer, illustrator, and writer, Antonio Martorell.

Martorell will discuss artworks in response to the ills of colonial history. He has spent 60 years exploring communication and conversation starters by ways of visual, literary, performance and news media and will provide a glimpse at collective workshops enjoying the pleasure of creation and teamwork and the rehearsal of democratic actions.

Martorell was a 2021 National Medal of Arts recipient and presented with the award earlier in 2023 by President Joseph R. Biden.

Sponsored by Princeton University Library, the Program for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

A reception will follow the talk in Lower Hyphen.

Juana Díaz: Majestad negra
Acrílico, tela y encaje sobre Fieltro [Acrylic, fabric and lace on felt]
92" x 112"
2022

This workshop is hands-on and intended for beginners; no previous knowledge of data analysis and/or R is required. This session will cover the following topics for R: data preparation, descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to RStudio prior to the workshop. Information about R/RStudio installing the software could be found here.

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models and modeled data, and other sources for mining critical minerals on land, in oceans, and beyond our atmosphere - in space! Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's geosciences collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geosciences societies, environmental consultants, mining companies, and other information sources available for Earth (and other planets).

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

Research papers and protocol organization in labs often lack detailed instructions for repeating experiments. Princeton University Library has a instutional membership to protocols.io, an open-access platform for researchers to collaboratively create step-by-step, interactive, and dynamic protocols that can be run on mobile or web. Researchers can share protocols with colleagues, collaborators, the scientific community or make them public, with ease and efficiency. Real-time communication and interaction keep protocols up to date with versioning, forking/copying, Q&A, and troubleshooting. Public protocols receive a DOI (digital object identifier) and allow open communication with authors and researchers to encourage efficient experimentation and reproducibility.

This 45-minute workshop will cover:

Introduction to protocols.io’s mission and key functionality

How to discover public protocols, create your own protocols, share methods with others, and how to publish protocols

Q&A: We will stay online to answer any questions you have while you start to use protocols.io.

Hosted by Gabriel Gasque, protocols.io

To register: https://www.protocols.io/webinars/introduction5

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts on protocols.io, an open-access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.

Protocols.io allows Princeton researchers to create, manage, and share their research protocols and methods with other users on the platform, making them freely available for other scholars and improving reproducibility across the field. Users may also choose to keep their research private.

A 30-minute guided tour with one of the exhibition curators of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

During the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, activists knew that securing the sympathy and support of the federal government was essential. Drawing on materials in Mudd Manuscript Library, Professor of History Kevin M. Kruse will compare and contrast the 1961 Freedom Rides and the 1965 Selma protests to show how the federal response shaped the course of civil rights campaigns, for better and for worse.

A reception and open house will follow at Mudd Manuscript Library beginning at 6pm, where the exhibition “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches–Selections from the John Doar Papers” is currently on display. Curators Will Clements and Phoebe Nobles will be available for questions. During the reception, a special pop-up exhibit will be on view in the Mudd Library reading room, featuring archival materials chosen by Kevin Kruse to complement his talk.

Program
Talk: 4:30pm-5:45pm
Reception and exhibition open house: 6:00pm-7:00pm

This second session of the "Python for Working with Text" workshop series will introduce Web Scraping. Participants will practice writing code that gathers and manipulates information from websites. No familiarity with Python is required, but it is recommended that participants attend the "Introduction to Python" workshop (Fri, Sep 22) from the series and/or review the materials from that workshop.

This 30-minute workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar tools, including Mendeley and Endnote. We will cover setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document.

Please watch this six-minute video before the workshop: https://vimeo.com/369873151

Over a period of 40 years, John Bravman has collected and read scores of books by or about Winston Churchill, and come to especially appreciate his oratorical, literary, and leadership skills, all of which will be discussed during this presentation. Bravman’s collection of publications by and about Churchill numbers in the thousands.

John Bravman is the president of Bucknell University and a highly respected academic leader and distinguished professor of engineering.

Please register below.

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Did you know that the Lewis Science and Engineering Library offers a variety of games that can be checked out? Take a break but keep your head in the game with our science-themed board games. Join us for a round or check out a game to play with friends later.

The Friends of the Princeton University Library invite you to:

THE FALL DINNER

Featuring “How to Save the Humanities: Re-centering the Historical Record” presented by Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

University Professor, Professor of English, and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia

Date: Sunday, October 22, 2023

Time: Reception at 5:30 p.m. and Dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Location: The Nassau Club, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

RSVP: Monday, October 9, 2023

Registration required. Your guests are welcome. Tickets: $125 per person

Questions, to RSVP, or for more information: libraryf@princeton.edu

In this class, students will learn how to use GIS (geographic information system) tools to calculate distances between two features, road and river lengths within administrative units, the percentage of shared boundaries between two areas, extract information on polygon neighbors between two areas, and will explore many other analysis tools. Attendees will use ArcGIS Pro installed on the classroom's Windows computers.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

This series of workshops will provide faculty the opportunity to do some guided, hands-on experimentation with generative AI tools, to reflect in community on the experience, and to discuss the tools’ potential impact on our teaching.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for use during the session.

Github Copilot helps novice programmers to quickly generate powerful code snippets to work with data of various kinds. Questions we will consider include: How can we be transparent about code written with AI? Can AI-generated code demonstrate a user's comprehension of the logic that structures a programming language? Can code generators assist non-programmers in producing coursework on par with their peers who have programming experience?

This workshop is co-sponsored by McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning and Princeton University Library. Registration is required through My PrincetonU.

A 30-minute guided tour with one of the exhibition curators of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

Have you thought about launching a digital project, but did not know where to start or what tools can help? Or perhaps you have an early iteration of your project and want to take the next step? This presentation will introduce tools related to different stages of the research life cycle to help you expand your digital skill set, make your projects sustainable and preservable, and advance your research goals.

Developing and tweaking methods is a laborious and often unrewarded effort. With protocols.io, you can easily publish your protocols, making them citable and discoverable, getting the credit that you deserve.

Gabriel Gasque of Protocols.io will be joining us at Princeton for a live hybrid session on publishing your research protocols. You will learn how to:

Make your protocols public

Maximize the discoverability of your protocols

Improve the reliability and impact of your research papers with protocols.io

Turn your protocols into peer-reviewed papers

This is not an introductory webinar. For an Introduction to protocols.io, you can watch this video.

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts on protocols.io, an open-access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.

Protocols.io allows Princeton researchers to create, manage, and share their research protocols and methods with other users on the platform, making them freely available for other scholars and improving reproducibility across the field. Users may also choose to keep their research private.

QGIS can link to different software packages to run that package’s algorithms within QGIS. This workshop teaches how to link R statistical software to QGIS and run R scripts within QGIS itself. R plots can be viewed within QGIS, data can be transferred into other formats for processing in R, and results from R scripts can be returned to QGIS to be explored as GIS data. Students will use QGIS and R installed on the classroom’s Windows computers. R and QGIS also integrate well on Mac and Linux operating systems.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool for reference management. Once we have Zotero installed and running, you will learn how to collect your research sources and organize them into a single, searchable interface. We will show you how to create a document and insert the footnotes with the click of a button. You will learn how to, instantly, create the bibliography in ANY of the popular citation styles.

This hands-on workshop is intended for beginners. No previous knowledge of data analysis and/or Stata is required. The session will cover the following topics for Stata: data preparation (cleaning, merging, recoding, etc.), descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to Stata prior to the workshop. Information on accessing Stata can be found here.

Join us for an inside look at Firestone Library and Special Collections. During the 30-minute walking tour of Firestone Library you’ll learn about the history of the building and its most recent renovations, some of the architectural and artistic features of the building, and services for students and faculty. The tour will end with a 30-minute visit to Special Collections where you’ll be able to interact with some of the unique and rare materials in our collections.

Tours will meet in the lobby of Firestone Library before the turnstile near the sofas in front of the Access Desk.

If you have accessiblity needs that will impact your ability to enjoy your tour effectively or comfortably, please don’t hesitate to email refdesk@princeton.edu and our team will do our best to accomodate you.

Please note that this tour is only open to members of the Princeton University community.

This workshop introduces two modern R packages, both part of R’s “tidyverse”, that provide intuitive tools for handling common data management tasks. The first package, tidyr, provides functions that reshape data. The second package, dplyr, provides a set of functions (referred to as “verbs”) that allow you to easily subset observations, reorder observations, select specific variables, add new variables, group observations, and summarize groups of observations.

Esri has developed the R-ArcGIS Bridge to support data transfer and analysis between ArcGIS Pro and R. Based on a Rice University workshop, this session uses ArcGIS Pro and R-Studio to analyze gun-related arrests in Philadelphia in 2021. Users will learn how to connect R to ArcGIS Pro, and how to install the arcgisbinding package. Data in ArcGIS Pro will be ported into R-Studio, where a statistical analysis will be performed. The results will be ported back into ArcGIS Pro for further analysis. Students will use ArcGIS Pro, R-Studio and R installed on the classroom’s Windows computers.

Interactive maps that run from a browser have become the default way to view geographic data. The exercises show users how to post geographic data to the University’s ArcGIS OnLine portal, how to create web maps from different data sets, how to use symbology to make the web map accessible and clear, and how to share the web map as a web application. Students will use the classroom's Windows computers to access ArcGIS Online and other web services.

This event is part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops series.

Trouble finding literature for your JP or senior thesis?

Stop by this lunchtime session (with lunch!) in the Department of Psychology and learn how to navigate library resources and use literature mapping tools to locate literature for your psychology or neuroscience JP, independent work, or senior thesis.

Lunch will be provided by the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Please register!

Psychology JP/Thesis Guide: https://libguides.princeton.edu/psyc_jp_thesis

Neuroscience Independent Work/Thesis Guide: https://libguides.princeton.edu/neuro_jp_thesis

This workshop is hands-on and intended for beginners; no previous knowledge of data analysis and/or R is required. This session will cover the following topics for R: data preparation, descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to RStudio prior to the workshop. Information about R/RStudio installing the software could be found here.

Are you new to data analysis and/or Stata? Are you interested in using Stata for your research project? During this hands-on workshop will discuss data preparation (cleaning, merging, recoding, etc.), descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression. No previous knowledge of data analysis and/or Stata is required.

Please make sure you have access to Stata prior to the workshop. Information about accessing data could be found here.

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models and modeled data, and other sources for surface water drainage basins, groundwater aquifers, and saltwater instrusion along Atlantic coastal communities. Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's geosciences collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geosciences societies, environmental consultants, and other information sources available for Earth.

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

This workshop will give participants an overview of data storage options available at Princeton and detail the logistics of using each option, which is best suited for their data and research needs. Participants will learn the recommended practices for backing up their data, how to maintain data integrity, and how to keep their data secure.

This workshop focuses on how you can reimagine your research as a map. We will turn a text into a map, and in the process, introduce you to tools and methods to successfully build a spatial representation of your research. We will also discuss foundational skills to organize your research to prepare it for mapping as well as common challenges like inconsistent recordings of place names, places with the same name, and more. It is recommended that you bring your own laptop for this hands-on workshop.

Are you curious to learn more about Excel? Interested in refining your Excel skills? Wondering if you can use it more effectively? Join us for this introduction to Excel functions workshop. We will discuss using Excel functions, as well as working with text and dates. No previous knowledge required.

You have data but are not sure what different statistical methods are available to analyze your data. In addition to linear regression and event studies, other methods such as Differences in Differences, Fixed Random Effects, and Factor Analysis will be briefly discussed. One will not be shown how to perform the analysis (though we have many guides for this), but examples of datasets will be given along with possibilities for analysis.

Join us for an inside look at Firestone Library and Special Collections. During the 30-minute walking tour of Firestone Library you’ll learn about the history of the building and its most recent renovations, some of the architectural and artistic features of the building, and services for students and faculty. The tour will end with a 30-minute visit to Special Collections where you’ll be able to interact with some of the unique and rare materials in our collections.

Tours will meet in the lobby of Firestone Library before the turnstile near the sofas in front of the Access Desk.

If you have accessiblity needs that will impact your ability to enjoy your tour effectively or comfortably, please don’t hesitate to email refdesk@princeton.edu and our team will do our best to accomodate you.

Please note that this tour is only open to members of the Princeton University community.

This 30-minute workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar tools, including Mendeley and Endnote. We will cover setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document.

Please watch this six-minute video before the workshop: https://vimeo.com/369873151

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models, laboratory methods, and other sources of critical minerals and abundant elements on Earth from source rocks. Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's chemistry and geosciences collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geochemistry societies, chemistry societies, chemical companies, chemistry patents, pharmaceutical industries, mining companies, environmental chemistry, and other information sources. Chemistry and geosciences specific search examples in bibliographic databases will include using the search fields to find information by chemistry text terminologies, chemical formula, and chemical structure (2-D and 3-D).

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts on protocols.io, an open-access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.

Protocols.io allows Princeton researchers to create, manage, and share their research protocols and methods with other users on the platform, making them freely available for other scholars and improving reproducibility across the field. Users may also choose to keep their research private.

This webinar offers tips and tricks for advanced features and functionality offered in protocols.io and will cover the following features:

Using the editor (templates, lab/computational components, smart component, import of existing protocols, sections, attachments, tables, and formulas)

Fork versus Copy

Collections

Importing images/movies

Reagents & Equipment

Sharing protocols

Q&A

If you have specific functionality you would like us to cover, please let us know ahead of time by sending an email to info@protocols.io with the subject line "Tips and Tricks workshop".

Hosted by Gabriel Gasque, PhD, Protocols.io

REGISTER HERE: https://www.protocols.io/webinars/tips-and-tricks7

This series of workshops will provide faculty the opportunity to do some guided, hands-on experimentation with generative AI tools, to reflect in community on the experience, and to discuss the tools’ potential impact on our teaching.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for use during the session.

DALL-E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. Questions we will consider include: How have AI-created images complicated the landscape for media literacy? How might AI-created images affect student projects? How can AI-created images support students with minimal technical or artistic training? How does this tool connect to conceptions of copyright and intellectual property?

This workshop is co-sponsored by McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning and Princeton University Library. Registration is required through My PrincetonU.

A 30-minute guided tour with one of the exhibition curators of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

PivotTables are a powerful tool to calculate, summarize, and analyze data that lets you see comparisons, patterns, and trends in your data. This session will introduce participants PivotTables and their functionality. We will also discuss creating PivotCharts, a graphical representation of a data summary displayed in a PivotTable.

This hands-on workshop is intended for beginners. No previous knowledge of data analysis and/or Stata is required. The session will cover the following topics for Stata: data preparation (cleaning, merging, recoding, etc.), descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to Stata prior to the workshop. Information on accessing Stata can be found here.

Did you know that the Lewis Science and Engineering Library offers a variety of games that can be checked out? Take a break but keep your head in the game with our science-themed board games. Join us for a round or check out a game to play with friends later.

The third and final session of the "Python for Working with Text" workshop series will build on the "Introduction to Python" and "Web Scraping" workshops to introduce Text Analysis. Participants will practice writing code that manipulates and analyzes text-based data from PUL's collections. No familiarity with Python is required, but it is recommended that participants attend the previous workshops in the series and/or review the materials from those workshops.

A 30-minute guided tour with one of the exhibition curators of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

This workshop is hands-on and intended for beginners; no previous knowledge of data analysis and/or R is required. This session will cover the following topics for R: data preparation, descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression.

Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to RStudio prior to the workshop. Information about R/RStudio installing the software could be found here.

All are invited to this hands-on workshop which will introduce attendees to the principles of data visualization using R’s ggplot package. Participants will learn how to make visually appealing plots in a well-informed way, understanding the basic steps and language of the ggplot package. Previous knowledge of R is not required but may be helpful.

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

A 45-minute guided tour with a student guide of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library.

The exhibition is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public.

"In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison" is curated by Jennifer Garcon, Librarian for Modern and Contemporary Special Collections, Gabriel Swift, Librarian for American Collections, and Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The exhibition showcases Princeton’s diverse collection of English literature and many of the writers and readers who brought life to English literature around the world.

Are you actively in the middle of a research project? Do you know what you can do to make sharing your research data easier? In this workshop, you will learn about data management considerations of ongoing projects with an eye towards publishing and sharing your research at the end.

This 30-minute workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar tools, including Mendeley and Endnote. We will cover setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document.

Please watch this six-minute video before the workshop: https://vimeo.com/369873151

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models and modeled data, and other sources for environmental studies research for water use (public supply, self supply, industrial, irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, energy, mining, other uses) and water availability (freshwater and saltwater). Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's geosciences and environmental collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geosciences societies, environmental consultants, mining companies, and other information sources available for Earth's water cycle.

This 60-minute workshop is an introduction and overview on how to find publications, raw data, models and modeled data, and other sources for natural hazard events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and wildfires. Join Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian, Emily Wild, on this virtual journey of print and digital library materials from Princeton University Library's geosciences collections. Bibliographic databases and access to full-text publication sources will include geological surveys, geosciences societies, environmental consultants, mining companies, and other information sources available for Earth (and other planets with volcanoes and flooding).