Tuesday, April 14: Why Can’t I Download That Ebook? Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and the Politics of Electronic Reading, led by Alycia Sellie This workshop will take a tour through the GC’s ebook collections with an eye for what ebooks offer options for use and which are restricted through content management tools (known as …

April 14: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Open Class Session, Conversation with Professor John Mogalescum, President Emeritus Kelly, and Futures Initiative Director Davidson, 4:15-6:15pm, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room 9206 Please visit the Futures Initiative website for more information.

Thursday, April 16: Privacy in the Age of Dragnet Surveillance: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Rights Online, led by Alison Macrina and Kade Crockford Alison Macrina of the Library Freedom Project and Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Massachusetts will present a workshop on privacy and surveillance in the 21st Century. Kade will give …

Digital storytelling with maps: ArcGIS Story Maps This workshop will introduce ArcGIS Story Maps, a platform than enables users to present information and multimedia on topics, trends or events within a geographic context. We will focus on setting up and designing the site, adding multimedia content, and tagging locations. Attendees need not bring a computer, but may …

Intro to Web Scraping in Python | April 22, 4:15 to 6:15pm | Computer Lab C196.03 | Patrick Smyth In this workshop, students will learn how to write Python scripts to pull data from the web programmatically. Students will learn about the Requests library, Python's built-in string functions, and the basics of storing data locally. …

Wednesday, April 22: Archival Research: The Basics, led by Donna Davey Learn the basics of archival research in this hands-on workshop.  We’ll cover what archives are and how they are arranged, where and how to look for sources, and what to expect when you visit an archival repository. Full details and registration here: http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/archival-research-the-basics/

Digital Fellows Guest Workshop: Geospatial Mapping with QGIS Thursday, April 23, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT) Please join guest speaker Abby Mullen (Northeastern University) for the latest Digital Fellows workshop of the Spring 2015 semester. This workshop will focus on QGIS and the use of historical maps, georectification, and adding other data on top …

ArcGIS | All day workshops on Feb 27, Mar 27, Apr 24 ($30) | Frank Donnelly Do you have a research question that you'd like to envision geographically? Maybe you'd like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market. Or perhaps you want to visualize the distribution of education, employment, or resources across the country or …