Past Events

Please join us for the Math For All Austin Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Friday, April 5 in the PCL Data Lab in the Scholars Lab. The Math For All in Austin Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is meant to raise awareness for the lack of gender and racial representation in Wikipedia biographies in math and across many other disciplines and to provide resources for people to learn how to edit Wikipedia entries and work towards closing those gaps.

Join us for the 22nd Annual ¡A Viva Voz! Celebration of U.S. Latino/a Culture, hosted by the Benson Latin American Collection. Special guest José María de León Hernández is a five-time Grammy award winner and recipient of the 2023 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.

This awards ceremony, co-hosted by the University of Texas Libraries and the Center for Skills and Experience Flags, celebrates the winners of the Writing Flag Awards and the Signature Course Information Literacy Awards.

This workshop will introduce you to ORCID and Google Scholar profile systems and give you some tips for making the most of these types of services.

In this OER @ TDL quarterly meeting, join our panel for an informal discussion on the challenges of sustaining open education initiatives in a solo role, and how we can develop strategies for creating resilient OER programs by leveraging the support of our community.

We are proud to welcome Award-winning Poet, Writer, and Performer, Danez Smith to campus for the 2024 Eric Williams Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 26th in Austin, Texas.

In partnership with Obsidian, this artshare will create space for campus community building and allyship, aiming to platform the established discipline of Black Queer Studies and the creativity and voices of LGBTQIA+ peoples of Africa and of the African diaspora.

This workshop introduces the basics of optical character recognition (OCR), which allows for full-text searching and other types of text manipulation of a digitized document.

Three-day Comics, Gaming & Animation Arts Expo & Symposium featuring comics and manga collections of the Libraries and LLILAS Benson from around the world with panels, workshops, and exhibits that showcase the diverse talents and perspectives within these creative realms.

This introductory workshop will provide advice and practical ideas to incorporate digital humanities methodologies at all levels of teaching -- from syllabus design, to assignments and classroom activities.