We are receiving applications for the 8th Annual Library Research Prize for Students! All currently enrolled undergraduate students are eligible to apply through this Moodle Campus site. Submissions must include answers to some reflective application questions, a bibliography, the work completed by the student, and a faculty support form. The work must have been completed for…
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Data as an Agent of Change
Love Data Week’s theme this year focuses on data as an agent of change, specifically bringing attention to how a community might use data to bring about meaningful change to policy or society. Data activism is a specific type of social activism that aims to make affirmative use of data and technology for advocacy and…
Love Data Week!
Welcome to Love Data Week! Be sure to check out the Love Data Week Guide for resources, activities and challenges. We’ll also be sharing a few Engage posts on issues surrounding the theme of data as an agent of change. Today’s post looks at the relationship between data literacy and data justice. Data literacy is…
Get Ready for International Love Data Week!
Next week, February 13 – 17, Connecticut College will participate in International Love Data Week. Love Data Week is a global celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities and colleges, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities. …
Open Access Week Day 3: Climate Resources at Shain Library
Consistent with Connecticut College’s status as an early implementer of an environmental studies major (initially founded as the “human ecology” major in 1968) and with solid library holdings in environmental studies (collections include the Linda Lear Collection of Rachel Carson Books and Papers; Nature Conservancy papers; Connecticut College Arboretum Bulletins and records; and the faculty…
New Public Database Makes our Campus Art Collections Available for Broader Use
The Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center recently published the Campus Art Collections on a platform from LUNA Imaging, making these collections available in a beautiful and user-friendly format. The database will bring together all the different art collections at the College, some of which are part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections &…
NVivo for Audio Transcription and Data Analysis
post contributed by Lydia Klein ’22, Digital Scholarship Assistant The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC) now offers NVivo for qualitative data analysis. NVivo allows you to import research data from virtually any source, centralize and organize your data, and analyze unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media,…
New Resources for Diversity and Inclusion Research
Tomorrow at 2pm Kathy Gehring is leading us on a journey through new library resources that support research from a variety of perspectives. Some new additions include online access to the NAACP Papers, Historical Black Newspapers, Women and Social Movements, Disability in the Modern World and North American Indian Thought and Culture. Come learn about…
Domains & Websites Workshops
Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
