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HathiTrust Research Center Fall Workshops
Fall 2022, HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is offering 3 virtual workshops, aimed especially at people new to HathiTrust and text and data mining.The workshops will be held via Zoom and will include a mix of hands-on, discussion, and presentation. We will utilize breakout rooms to support hands-on activities. You will not be required to install any software to participate in the workshops.
Workshop 1: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC
Date: Thursday, November 3
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.
No experience is required for this introductory workshop.
Workshop 2: HTRC Extracted Features
Date: Thursday, November 10
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
An introduction to the HTRC Extracted Features Dataset, including the motivation for its creation, the data model, and the kinds of research it enables. This session will include a hands-on activity using the dataset, Google Colaboratory notebooks and Python code.
No experience is required–your level of participation is up to you! However, familiarity with Python is helpful.
Workshop 3: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC (repeat)
Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.
No experience is required for this introductory workshop.
Please contact htrc-help@hathitrust.org with questions.
Thanks to Everyone Who Helped With the TEAM Escape Room!
We put on the escape room again for TEAM. It’s a group that helps to build relationships with transfer students. Lexi Wolkow, who spoke at our SAG meeting last week, contacted us a few weeks ago to see if the escape room could be one of their activities. The students had an absolute great time and thank you to all the volunteers during the event and those who helped with different parts of the prep work!
Skylark Bookshop Event: Devoney Looser Discusses Sister Novelists
Thursday, November 10, 2022
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
It is the nature of life in a college town like Columbia that people come and go.
And while we’re sad to say goodbye to folks, it does at least mean that we have the pleasure of welcoming them back again. So it is that we’re thrilled to welcome Devoney Looser back to Columbia to talk about her brand-new book, Sister Novelists. For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, this is a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. In a starred review, Kirkus describes the book like this: “a triumph of literary detective work and storytelling, this is a must-read for the Austen and Brontë crowd,”
Devoney will be appearing at Skylark in conversation with another well-known Austen aficionado, Janet Saidi of KBIA. It’s going to be a dazzling evening!
Safe Space Training
Thank you to everyone who came to Safe Space Training! We had 14 people attend in person and 23 people online. We appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to engage in such important conversations.
And mark you calendars for a presentation by Lily Hunter on October 25th. This presentation will focus on being disabled in the work place. Once we solidify more details, we will send out another email and a calendar invite.
-IDEA Committee (Amanda Sprochi, Lily Hunter, Paula Roper, Taira Meadowcroft)
New Muse Posts
Marketing Highlight: Posts to Promote
Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments:
Seeking MU Faculty Books for Exhibit at Ellis Library
University Libraries Student Advisory Council (ULSAC) Book Project
Open Education Week 2022: Introduction to Creative Commons
Open Education Week 2022: Introduction to Open Educational Resources
Partnership Brings Medieval Manuscript Collection into the Digital Age
It’s easy to adapt these posts when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft.
If there are other topics you’d the marketing team to promote, send your ideas to Shannon Cary.
New Muse Posts
Marketing Highlight: Valentine’s Day and Post to Highlight
We made some bookish themed valentines. They all got great engagement on facebook, twitter, and instagram
The Health Sciences Library is working on an Increase Your Impact Series. : https://library.missouri.edu/news/tag/research-impact-series
It’s easy to adapt these posts when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft.
If there are other topics you’d the marketing team to promote, send your ideas to Shannon Cary.
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Giveaway and Things to Promote
Thanks to Ying in Digital Services, we held an Instagram giveaway: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZIVRG5pdxt/. Ying designed this calendar out of images from the digital library. We had 77 people enter.
This instagram post by Mara got some great engagement back in December: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCb8-AF8Jd/
Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments:
- Black History Month Exhibit and Talk: Black Health and Wellness
- Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact
- Welcome to the Libraries: An Introduction for Savvy Student Scholars
- New Database Trial: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Defender 1909-2010
- New Database Trial: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
- New Database Trial: Sources Chrétiennes Online
- New Items Added to HathiTrust
It’s easy to adapt these post when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft.
If there are other topics you’d the marketing team to promote, send your ideas to Shannon Cary.