Date: December 5 2025 Hybrid Event: Zoom and In-person at the Collaboratory Instructor: Reg Beatty This workshop will examine the practice of Philippine-born internet artist Chia Amisola, their approach to creating work for the web, as well as their multi-layered browser-based performances.  We will then follow a number of tutorials that Amisola has posted recently. These […]

Description: This workshop offers a three-hour introduction to the eXtensible Markup Language of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI-XML). It begins by asking how we mark up historical and literary texts in order to create digital editions/archives and will cover the basics of XML terminology before diving into the specifics of TEI elements, attributes, and values. […]

Date: December 8 2025 Instructor: Jason Boyd Decker is a multimedia platform influenced by HyperCard and created by Internet Janitor. It can be used for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to two Decker libraries (Dialogizer and Puppeteer) designed to facilitate the creation of visual novels. The […]

Date: December 10th 2025 Instructor: Kendra Oudyk This set of five workshops is an introduction to Python programming, with a focus on skills that are relevant to students and researchers who are working with data, particularly tabular data. The five workshops cover the following: Participants must sign up for each workshop individually. It is not […]

Date: January 8 2026 Presenter: Cora Coady The winter is a time when Indigenous people typically tell stories. This is the perfect time to delve into cultural expressions of Indigenous Knowledge. During this 90 minute workshop we will engage with Indigenous story, art and craft. We will also discuss intellectual property, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural […]

Date: January 14 2026 TIFU (Today I F’ed Up) by losing a ton of data for my research – Have you ever seen a description like this on Reddit? Are your desktop and downloads folders a jumble of files named Data-finalFINAL-USETHISONE? Is all of your lab’s data stored on a single drive located conveniently under a […]

Date: January 14 2026 Presenter: Jacob Turola Get started with the makerspace sewing machines. We’ll demonstrate how to set up the machine and show you different stitch patterns. We’ll also go over how to make and find patterns as well as how to cut your fabric properly. Basic fabrics are provided but you’re encouraged to bring […]

On vous a sûrement déjà dit que pour limiter les erreurs des IA génératives et pour s’assurer qu’une machine rende les bonnes informations, il fallait passer par un RAG. Mais qu’est-ce qu’un RAG et comment est-ce que ça fontionne exactement ? Dans cet atelier vous apprendrez à disséquer un outil de recherche d’information associé à […]

Date: January 20 2026 Presenter: Jacob Turola Get started with the makerspace laser cutter. We’ll demonstrate how it works and how you can use the cutter to make amazing designs with wood and acrylic!

Date: January 21 2026 From datasets and code to podcasts, reports, and performances, not all research outputs take the form of journal articles or books. These are known as Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTROs)—scholarly or creative works that fall outside conventional academic publishing. While NTROs make up a significant and growing part of research activity, they […]

Date: January 21 2026 Presenter: Jack Leong Participants will learn the basics of virtual reality technology, and get hands-on experience with Quest headsets in this gentle introduction.   Using a Quest headset, participants will immerse into sample content for education, wellness, world travel, and entertainment, and learn how to borrow VR equipment from the Library’s Media Creation […]

Date: January 26 2026 Presenter: Jacob Turola Join us for this introduction to a staple in makerspace technology! Attendees will get started with 3D printing in the makerspace. The session will cover how to find a file, process it for printing and run the machine. All are welcome, and everyone gets to keep what they make.