Events

Current book display at the PCL 5th Floor Display Shelf, featuring book recommendations based on BookTok sensations.

In this virtual workshop, learn about the Pivot database and how to use it to find funding opportunities!

Conducting research doesn't necessarily require collecting new data; re-using existing data can often be both efficient and powerful. This virtual Data & Donuts workshop will focus on Finding and Evaluating existing datasets for use in research from specialist and generalist repositories.

Participate in the 2025 Geosciences Hackathon to build your software development skills, network, and contribute to open source projects. This year's hackathon theme is "change over time" and participating hackathon teams, guided by mentors, will develop computational models to track geochanges across different time scales, from real time to millions of years in geological time.

Participate in the 2025 Geosciences Hackathon to build your software development skills, network, and contribute to open source projects. This year's hackathon theme is "change over time" and participating hackathon teams, guided by mentors, will develop computational models to track geochanges across different time scales, from real time to millions of years in geological time.

Participate in the 2025 Geosciences Hackathon to build your software development skills, network, and contribute to open source projects. This year's hackathon theme is "change over time" and participating hackathon teams, guided by mentors, will develop computational models to track geochanges across different time scales, from real time to millions of years in geological time.

This virtual workshop will cover how to use AI to generate keywords for a research question. Using Microsoft CoPilot, we will generate search terms on a particular topic, identify databases and journals to search, and determine terms to use when searching specific databases.

Canva is a free online tool for designing visuals like social media posts, presentations, and documents using customizable templates. In this hybrid workshop, attendees will learn the basic tools of Canva and apply them to a variety of templates.

Buy some plants, support an excellent charity, improve your air quality! Proceeds from the PCL staff and retiree plant sale benefit Austin Empty Bowl Project.

This hybrid Data & Donuts workshop will provide an introduction to using SQL (Structured Query Language) to store and manage data in open source relational databases like MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Free donuts!