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, …

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 …