Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Family Day: Sustainable Fashion

Join the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library for an afternoon of family fun and activities highlighting the new exhibit "From Farms to Fast Fashion: Unraveling the Need for Sustainable Style." Activities include weaving on a cardboard loom, hand stitching, and learning how to remove stains from fabric. There will be a scavenger hunt, snacks, and a sewist from Community demonstrating on a sewing machine. 

How to Make Data FAIR

In celebration of International Love Data Week,  Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) in the UGA Libraries, the University of Liverpool Libraries, and Ludwig Maximillian University Libraries and ITG (Munich, Germany) are hosting a special zoom event on FAIR principles applied to research data (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible). This event will explain how researchers can incorporate these principles with research data management, to ensure long-term benefits to their work and their communities.

Open Practices for Text Analytics

In celebration of International Love Data Week, Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) in the UGA Libraries, the University of Liverpool Libraries, and Ludwig Maximillian University Libraries and ITG (Munich, Germany) are hosting a special Zoom event on text analytics. Experts from UGA and LMU will lead discussions on specific projects and techniques in open practices for text analytics, including StudiDH, Newscrape, R, Python, and more!

Libraries Undergraduate Research Award: Information Session

Since 2007, the UGA Libraries has sponsored the Undergraduate Research Awards, which provide cash prizes for excellence in research. This year, we want to celebrate the different kinds of research projects students participate in and, more importantly, understand what they learned from the process. Join us for an information session about this year’s awards and evaluation criteria!