Date: October 21 2025 Instructor: Reg Beatty Early digital type designers were challenged by having a limited grid of pixels to create their letterforms for computers, handheld devices, video and arcade games. These blocky fonts were one of the distinguishing features of the 70s through the 90s and are mostly used today for a retro […]
Date: October 22 2025 Presenter: Alexandra Wong and Rosa Orlandini An important part of working with any data is properly preparing and cleaning your data, whether you have conducted a survey or have found secondary data! If you also find cleaning your data to correct errors or make formatting consistent to be a tedious and time-consuming […]
Date: October 23 2025 Want more control over how your documents look and function? LaTeX is an open-source typesetting system used to create clean, consistent, and professional documents. It’s especially helpful for working with complex formatting, citations, or mathematical content, and it’s a powerful tool for writing reports, articles, and long-form texts in any discipline. […]
Date: October 23 2025 Instructor: Lily Crandall-Oral This intermediate-level workshop is meant to extend basic knowledge of QGIS by exploring common plugins. Familiarity of the QGIS is therefore a prerequisite. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to use plugins to Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop. This workshop is […]
Date: October 24 2025 Instructor: Reg Beatty Join Reg in this two hour hands-on workshop on how to design a bitmapped font using BitFontMaker2. We’ll talk about the rudiments of type design, the specifics of pixel fonts, and how to publish and use your new font.
Date: October 28 2025 Presenter: Sophie Bury, Ted Belke In the second part of our two-part series, we will cover AI-integrated research discovery and workflow tools. This sub-category of AI tools is growing exponentially in number and can be a valuable addition to any serious researcher’s toolkit. Promoting research effectiveness and workflows, leveraged by AI models […]
Date: October 28 2025 Presenter: Rosa Orlandini & Alexandra Wong Do you need to find published data to use in your research projects or assignments, and you don’t know where to start? We can help! This practical workshop will be conducted by members of the York University Libraries’ Data Services Team. It will introduce various sources […]
Date: October 29 2025 Instructors: Eugene Barsky, Vanessa Choy Workshop: File Naming Best Practices for Research Data This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces strategies for consistent and meaningful file naming to support better research organization, collaboration, and long-term data reuse. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, this session […]
Date: October 29 2025 Instructor: Kendra Oudyk This workshop is meant to give you the skills to create and publish a static website using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. We’ll explore the default Jekyll installation setup and walk through the steps to publish a basic web site. We’ll cover the basic building blocks of Jekyll sites and discuss best […]
Date: November 5 2025 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 […]
Date: November 5 2025 Instructors: Eugene Barsky, Vanessa Choy Workshop: Choosing File Formats for Research Data This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, explores how selecting the right file formats can support long-term preservation, data sharing, and reuse. Aimed at graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session highlights best practices for […]
Date: November 5th 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 […]