Previous Events
UGA Press Annual Campus Book Sale
As part of the Spotlight on the Arts Festival, the University of Georgia Press will host its annual book sale for students, faculty, and staff on the Main Library's front lawn on November 15-16, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day. A wide variety of new and backlist titles will be available for purchase at a special Spotlight discount of 50% off. Stop by and browse available titles, learn more about the UGA Press, our people and our authors, and find out about exciting new initiatives from the Press and our partners.
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Gallery Tour
Join one of our newly trained student docents for a public tour! This free tour begins in the second-floor rotunda and covers all three galleries, including Hargrett Library's St. Catherine's Island exhibit. Free parking for off campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck.
Gallery Tour
Join one of our newly trained student docents for a public tour! This free tour begins in the second-floor rotunda and covers all three galleries, including Hargrett Library's St. Catherine's Island exhibit. Free parking for off campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck.
LMU/UGA Research Data Management Symposium
Join experts from UGA including Jessica Kissinger, Shannon Quinn, Beth Woods, and Bill Kretzschmar, and experts from LMU including Sarah Schimke and Lars Bülow to discuss Research Data Management!
Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies: Graduate Student Symposium
Join six graduate students from the UGA Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art as they share their creative work at this interdisciplinary symposium. A Q&A session will follow the panel presentations. Light refreshment will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
Workshop: Intro to Python for Text Processing Part 1
This workshop will introduce participants to processing textual data with Python, focusing on cleaning and editing texts to make them suitable for further analysis. Familiarity with basic Python is encouraged, but not required. Participants will need to have Python 3.9+ and Jupyter notebooks installed to follow along. Jupyter notebooks can be installed by following this link: https://jupyter.org/install
Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies // Sea Sound Seen: Peter Van Zandt Lane, Dana Montlack, and Felicia Zamora
Join us for aqueous work from an award-winning poet and distinguished composer. Peter Van Zandt Lane will give a presentation on his current composition project, Thresholds, a work for orchestra and electronics that incorporates data sonification from the Georgia Coastal Ecologies Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and is supported by a grant from the Georgia Sea Grant Artists Program.
Data Consultation Walk-Ins
Every Wednesday from 1:30 – 3:00 PM, students and faculty are welcome to attend data consultation walk-ins hosted in both the Main Library, Room 300 (Digi Lab) and the McBay Science Library, Room 207.
Workshop: Intro to R for Text Analysis Part 2
Learn how to use R for text analysis in this workshop series! This second installment will cover how to perform sentiment analysis and topic modeling. Familiarity with basic R is encouraged but not required. Attendees should come with R (www.r-project.org) and RStudio (www.posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop) pre-installed on their computers.
Workshop: Create a Simple Map from Latitude/Longitude Data
Meagan Duever, GIS Librarian at UGA, will be presenting a workshop on how to get started with basic mapmaking using latitude and longitude data.