Exploring Digital Scholarship: Library Speaker Series

Join McMaster University Library’s Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship on Friday April 24 for “Seeding Digital Scholarship,” the third and final event in the Library’s 2015 speaker series.

McMaster faculty and staff are invited to take part in a day of planning (& playing!) through a series of workshops designed to provide participants with ways to incorporate big and small digital scholarship activities into student learning.

Workshops include:

Electronics for the Rest of Us, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
An Arduino & makerspace workshop for librarians, faculty, chairs, & deans

Modular Digital Scholarship, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Strategies and adaptable templates from practitioners at McMaster and Brock University

Trends in Digital Scholarship Centres, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Guest speakers Joan Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information) and Harriette Hemmasi (Brown University) on recent research and activities in North America and beyond.

Event details:

When: Friday April 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: The Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, 1^st floor of Mills Library

REGISTER NOW

Contact Paige Morgan for more information.

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Join McMaster University Library’s <a href="http://scds.ca/"> Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship</a> on Friday April 24 for <em>“Seeding Digital Scholarship,”</em> the third and final event in the Library’s 2015 speaker series.

McMaster faculty and staff are invited to take part in a day of planning (&amp; playing!) through a series of workshops designed to provide participants with ways to incorporate big and small digital scholarship activities into student learning.
<h4><strong>Workshops include:</strong></h4>
<strong>Electronics for the Rest of Us,  10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.</strong>
An Arduino &amp; makerspace workshop for librarians, faculty, chairs, &amp; deans

<strong> Modular Digital Scholarship, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.</strong>
Strategies and adaptable templates from practitioners at McMaster and Brock University

<strong>Trends in Digital Scholarship Centres, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.</strong>
Guest speakers <a href="http://www.cni.org/about-cni/staff/joan-k-lippincott/">Joan Lippincott</a> (Coalition for Networked Information) and <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-133.html">Harriette Hemmasi</a> (Brown University) on recent research and activities in North America and beyond.
<h4><strong>Event details:</strong></h4>
<strong>When</strong>: Friday April 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
<strong>Where</strong>: The Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, 1<sup>st</sup> floor of Mills Library
<h3><a href="https://eventbrite.ca/event/16599659027/">REGISTER NOW</a></h3>
Contact <a href="pmorgan@mcmaster.ca">Paige Morgan</a> for more information.

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