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Exhibit opening: Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost

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College Libraries
Robert Frost and the Spiral Press created holiday greeting cards of the highest craftsmanship and design from 1929 until 1962. Works of art in themselves, the cards also stand as true first editions of the chosen poems.

Davis Family Library Atrium

Open to the Public

DIY Historic Valentine Making

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College Libraries
Come make a Valentine with vintage postcards, love poetry, and photographs from the archives! Whether you’re romantic, historic, crafty, or just want to celebrate with an Otter Creek Bakery cookie, there’s enough love to go around.

Davis Family Library 145

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CANCELLED: Is Privacy Dead? Exploring Our Changing Notions of Privacy in the Digital Age

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College Libraries
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

What is the origin of our right to privacy ? How has our notion of privacy evolved over time? What are the main threats to privacy today? How can individuals protect privacy in our increasingly digital world?

Join us for a presentation on these crucial questions by Alex Alben, technology executive, national commentator, and Washington State’s Chief Privacy Officer.
Privacy.wa.gov
Open to the Public
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Special Collections Open House: Diderot's Encyclopédie

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French School and College Libraries
Davis Family Library, Room 101, Special Collections

Middlebury owns all 35 volumes of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie, a founding work of the Enlightenment. For the first time in recent memory, we’re displaying them all, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the final volume’s publication. With its 75,000 entries, 20 million words, and 2,569 richly detailed illustrated plates, the Encyclopedie aimed to “change the way people think” and encompass “all the knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth.”

Middlebury College

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MiddLab Data Workshops: Intro to Geospatial Data in R

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College Libraries
This lesson focuses on working with geospatial data - managing and understanding spatial data formats, understanding coordinate reference systems, and working with raster and vector data in R for analysis and visualization. We will learn the basics of working with spatial data in R, and will create basic but high quality maps.

Participants should have basic familiarity with R. If you are completely new to R, please be sure to attend the Introduction to R workshop on July 14, 2022.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public
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MiddLab Data Workshops: High-Performance Computing and Slurm at Middlebury

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College Libraries
High-performance computing (HPC) empowers users to perform complex calculations in parallel. HPC increases the speed and efficiency of computer simulations and data analysis through aggregated computing power and memory. This session will introduce Middleury’s “ada” HPC cluster, including access and use with the Slurm queuing software. Slurm manages job processing and ensures fair access. Basic familiarity with the linux command line will be assumed.

Virtual Middlebury

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MiddLab Data Workshops: Resource and Citation Management with Zotero

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College Libraries
Zotero is an open-source citation management tool (like RefWorks or EndNote) which is free to use anywhere in the world. It is especially useful for anyone managing many sources, of various types, for multiple research projects. In this session, participants will learn how to:

* populate their Zotero library by importing or creating metadata from sources like books, articles, websites, etc.

* organize these citations and accompanying research materials such as notes

Davis Family Library Wilson Media Development Lab

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MiddLab Data Workshops: Introduction to Text Mining in R

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College Libraries
Text mining is the process of transforming unstructured texts of all kinds (literary, scholarly, journalistic, scientific, etc.) into a form where the language of the documents can be analyzed. Using tidy data principles can help make these tasks easier, more efficient, and more interoperable with other tools. Luckily, R has packages that make this process work very well inside the R environment.

In this lesson, participants will learn:

* Some basic text mining/analysis concepts
* How to transform texts (e.g. a novel) into a structured dataset ready to use in R

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public
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MiddLab Data Workshops: Resource and Citation Management with Zotero

Sponsored by:
College Libraries
Zotero is an open-source citation management tool (like RefWorks or EndNote) which is free to use anywhere in the world. It is especially useful for anyone managing many sources, of various types, for multiple research projects. In this session, participants will learn how to:

* populate their Zotero library by importing or creating metadata from sources like books, articles, websites, etc.

* organize these citations and accompanying research materials such as notes

Davis Family Library Wilson Media Development Lab

Closed to the Public