Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive

The Skylight Room @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Monday, April 20: Brewster Kahle Brewster Kahle (pronounced “Kale”) is a leader of digital stewardship for the world’s heritage. He founded the Internet Archive in 1996 to strive for “universal access to all knowledge.” The Internet Archive preserves vintage software, moving images, sound, and text. It is best known as THE public archive of internet, …

ITP Workshop: Intro to Web Scraping in Python

Room C196.03 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

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. …

free

Library Workshop: Archival Research: The Basics

Room C196.02 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

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

Room C196.02 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

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 …

Free

ArcGIS All-Day Workshop

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 …

$30

New Media Lab Meeting

Room 7388.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Tuesday, April 28, 12:30 – 2:00 Presenting: Stephanie St. Pierre, “Food Systems, Health and Community” and Alice Lynn McMichael, “Documenting Cappadocia” Please visit the New Media Lab website for more …

ITP Workshop: Photoshop

Photoshop| April 29, 4:15 to 6:15 | Room TBD | Sissi Liu 劉思 Participants will learn basic skills such as understanding and adjusting the histogram, tonal scale, refining colors with hue/saturation, changing …

free

Futures Initiative Event: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

Room 9206, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, United States

May 5: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Open Class Session and Reception, Presentations of Works-in-Progress, Recap, and Interactive Session–Bring Your Markers!, 5-8pm, The Graduate Center, CUNY, William Kelly Skylight …

The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase

Room 9205 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the …

Free