Previous Events
Exhibit Tour, Legacy: Vince Dooley, 1932-2022
Kick-off your football weekends with a tour of this exhibit featuring original artifacts and rarely seen photographs that explore the life and career of legendary UGA coach Vince Dooley. Join curator Jason Hasty at 3:00 p.m. in the second floor rotunda of the Special Collections Building. This tour is free to the public with no prior registration required. For more information call 706-542-6179 or email hasty@uga.edu.
Local History Expo 2023
Drop into the Oconee County Library to see some of the many cool artifacts on display and meet some of the local history organizations in our area.
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library will be bringing artifacts and memorabilia from the UGA Athletic Association Archive. This will include items associated with the Auburn vs Georgia football game. Hargrett will also be bringing artifacts from its collection that are associated with Oconee County.
Family Day: St. Catherines Island
Join the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library for an afternoon of family fun highlighting the new exhibit, Exploring St. Catherine's Island. Scott Jones from Media Prehistoria will display stone tools, hunting weapons, cordage, and bone tools, in addition to conducting a fire-making demonstration. Visitors can also conduct their own archaeology dig and create a pinch pot to take home!
Fall into Research: Create a Simple Map from Aggregated Data
Do you have data that is based on an area; like by city, county, state, or country (like the census, or other data at the county/state/country level)? This workshop will help you join your data to the geometry of your area(s) so you can map them.
Fall into Research: Introduction to R for Data Science
Join us to learn how to upload, wrangle, and analyze data in R. No experience necessary.
Fall into Research: Introduction to the Command Line
This short workshop will serve as a gentle introduction to the Unix/Linux command line with a special focus on how it can be used to search and manipulate text. Attendees will be well-equipped to begin exploring how Unix/Linux tools might be useful for their own research in the humanities and beyond.
Fall into Research: Grant Funding with Pivot
Use Pivot to find grants and other funding opportunities through local, state, federal, non-profit, and corporate sponsors. Based on your research profile, set up funding alerts and find potential collaborators at UGA and beyond.
Fall into Research: Introduction to Legal Sources
Learn the ins and outs of using public government websites like Congress.gov, GovInfo.gov, and USCode.House.gov to research legal sources.
Fall into Research: Create a Simple Map with Latitude/Longitude Data
Need to create a map of locations for your poster, paper, or project and all you have are latitude and longitude for each point? This workshop will help you to turn your data into a simple map. No experience necessary. Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop Data Link: Lat/Long.
Fall into Research: Introduction to RefWorks
Learn how to use RefWorks, an incredibly helpful citation management software for researchers and writers provided by the UGA Libraries. RefWorks allows you to save citations from databases, organize them, attach PDFs, and then format and insert the citations into Word or Google Docs in one of 15,000 different citation styles.