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Workshop: Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro
Published: May 10, 2019Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm (with one hour lunch break) Location: Research Library 11630L – Scholarly Innovation Lab (SIL) In this hands-on workshop, you will learn ArcGIS Pro, the next generation ArcGIS Desktop application, which is tightly integrated to modern Web GIS. The workshop will specifically discuss how to get started,…
Read MoreAccession & Digitization Workshop, May 2, 12:30pm, IS Lab Zone A
Published: May 2, 2019How do institutions add new materials to their collections? The IS Lab welcomes participants to assist with the accession and digitization of recently acquired materials. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to accession and digitization practices for archival collections, including setting the appropriate level of description, articulating the link between description and arrangement, documenting…
Read MoreOxygen XML & OpenRefine Working Session, May 8, 12:30pm
Published: May 1, 2019If you’re enrolled in IS 464 Metadata this term—or if you wanted to take the course, but were unable to—please join us at 12:30pm on Wednesday, May 8, for a working session. We’ll start the session with an overview of Oxygen XML and work through the class assignment. Then we’ll shift into an overview of…
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Read MoreAccession & Digitization Workshop, May 2, 12:30pm, IS Lab Zone A
Published: April 1, 2019How do institutions add new materials to their collections? The IS Lab welcomes participants to assist with the accession and digitization of recently acquired materials. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to accession and digitization practices for archival collections, including setting the appropriate level of description, articulating the link between description and arrangement, documenting…
Read MoreCalligraphy Workshop, Horn Press
Published: March 22, 2019The Horn Press will be holding a calligraphy workshop on April 20th, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in GSE&IS Room 121. We have invited Jane Shibata, a local artist and professor from Santa Monica College, to teach the workshop. She is also the Outreach contact for the Society for Calligraphy, Southern California, a non-profit…
Read MoreDigital Collections for Humanities and Social Sciences Instruction at UCLA
Published: January 18, 2019January 31st, 2019, 2:30pmCharles E. Young Research LibraryMain Conference Room UCLA Library Special Collections will be hosting a workshop on available primary sources for teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Ben Lacey from Adam Matthew Digital will present on digital collections available through the library, and case studies of how tutors around the…
Read MoreUpcoming Data Science Center Workshops
Published: January 15, 2019Introduction to the Bash Shell Command Line1:00pm – 3:00pm Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Python for Data Science1:00pm – 3:00pm Thursday, January 24, 2019 Introduction to R1:00pm – 3:00pm Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Data cleaning and preparation in R using DPLYR and TidyR1:00pm – 3:00pm Thursday, January 31, 2019 Data Cleaning with OpenRefine1:00pm – 3:00pm Thursday,…
Read MoreUrauchi: Backing Cloth and Artwork with Washi Workshop
Published: January 7, 2019GENERAL INFORMATION Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019Time: 12:00-4:00 PMLocation: Hiromi Paper, Inc. 9469 Jefferson Blvd Suite 117Culver City, CA 90232(310) 998-0098PARKING Located in the back FEESClass fee: $70.00Materials fee (required): $30.00TOTAL: $100 MATERIAL FEE INCLUDESUnbacked Cloth3 weights of paper for backing cloth and paperPasteTamping Brush (provided by instructor) TOOLS PROVIDEDDrying boards What to bringSpray Bottle (One that…
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