Social Work Library - Columbia University

Reading Bias in Libraries and Archives
Wednesday November 2nd, 12pm, Lehman Library 215

We invite you to join the Columbia University Libraries staff for a discussion surrounding implicit and explicit biases that structure what cultural heritage organizations collect, provide, and highlight in their spaces.

Throughout this talk, we'll challenge collection models that dictate how library and archival content is purchased, discuss how their public-facing services impact marginalized communities, and investigate the complex nature of preserving collective memory.

This event is part of The CRLT Players at Columbia University Event.

Please register here: http://bit.ly/rbregistration

Readings are here: http://bit.ly/rbreadings

We hope you will join us!

Reading Bias is a series of interactive discussions hosted by the Libraries. We will explore biases, assumptions, and worldviews inherent in society via texts e.g. articles, archives, data, and code. Readings are shared in advance to help facilitate discussions.

Reading Bias is a series of interactive discussions hosted by the Libraries. We will explore biases, assumptions, and worldviews inherent in society via texts e.g. articles, archives, data, and code. Readings are shared in advance to help facilitate discussions.

The Reading Bias discussion topics for the Fall semester are -

The American Dream (9/29, 6pm, Journalism Library)
Library Collections and Archives (11/2, 6pm, Location TBD)
Big Data and Code (TBD)

The first discussion is on Sept. 29, 6pm in the Journalism Library. The flyer is attached.

Please register here: http://bit.ly/rbregistration

Readings are here: http://bit.ly/rbreadings

We hope you will join us!

Columbia students - Join our Social Sciences workshops and build your research, data, mapping, and analytic skills!

These workshops will be held in Group Study room 2 on the main level of Lehman Library.

Email [email protected] with any questions.

1/25, 1 pm – Keep track of your research with Zotero

2/2, 12:30 pm – Crash Course in Business Research

2/4, 12:30 pm– Crash Course in Research Methods

Drop by our R Open Labs (No RSVP required) in Lehman Library 215, 10am-12pm, on 1/27 and 2/3!

Interested in learning more about qualitative research and data analysis? Join me tomorrow 10/8 in Lehman Library at 1pm for this workshop.

To the Columbia community -
Join our Library workshops and build your research, data, mapping, and analytic skills!

Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held in Group Study room 2 on the main level of Lehman Library.

Please RSVP by email to [email protected] with your name and workshop title.

9/15, 12 pm - Keep Track of your Research with Zotero
Learn how to import and citations and cite as you write.

9/17, 12 pm - Crash Course in Research Methodologies
Learn the ins and outs of the Sage Research Methods Database.

9/23, 12 pm - Find Free and Open Data
Discover data that you can use in your research immediately to do analysis and visualizations.

9/25, 2 pm - Learn to Map: ArcGIS [held in 215 Lehman Library]
A hands-on introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using ESRI ArcGIS software

It's the start of orientation week at Social Work, and a new academic year. Welcome! Come check out what the libraries are doing, including our new research workshops - https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/dssc/2015/08/26/fall-workshops-in-lehman-library/

Fall Workshops in Lehman Library | Digital Social Science Center Blog Fall Workshops in Lehman Library by Julia Marden on August 26, 2015 We’re rolling out a new workshop series for Fall. Stop by Lehman Library to build your research, data, mapping, and analytic skills. Check back for times and locations or email us at [email protected] for more details. Keep Track of…

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