Events & Workshops

• Open Virtual Reality

  October 03, 2024 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

  DSL VR Room (Main Library, 2 West)

  Whether you’re a VR first-timer, an immersive data visualizer, a researcher, a game developer, an artist in search of a new medium, an instructor curious about how to use the tech in class, or a student of storytelling, our VR Open Hours are for you! Try out the Digital Scholarship Lab’s HTC Vive Elite XR headsets and learn about our VR Headset loan program. We love to connect people with hardware, software, and each other.  The Digital Scholarship Lab will be hosting Open VR every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00-6:00pm. Join us to explore the expansive world of Virtual Reality:   Immersivity visualize data, anatomy, molecules, math equations, historical sites and events, or even comics.   Paint, sculpt, animate, and work with 3D models/environments  Learn languages, circuitry, lab chemistry, medical procedure, extended-reality (or "XR," including VR and 360) media production.   Play games for transportive narrative, exercise, team building, or just plain fun.  Explore the great outdoors, real-world geography, or hypothetical interior designs.   Simulate colorblindness, an astronaut experience, or a rollercoaster ride. ... And so much more!   For parking information visit http://maps.msu.edu/interactive. If you have questions about accessibility or need to request accommodations, please email lib.dl.accessibility@msu.edu.

• Open Virtual Reality

  October 08, 2024 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

  DSL VR Room (Main Library, 2 West)

  Whether you’re a VR first-timer, an immersive data visualizer, a researcher, a game developer, an artist in search of a new medium, an instructor curious about how to use the tech in class, or a student of storytelling, our VR Open Hours are for you! Try out the Digital Scholarship Lab’s HTC Vive Elite XR headsets and learn about our VR Headset loan program. We love to connect people with hardware, software, and each other.  The Digital Scholarship Lab will be hosting Open VR every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00-6:00pm. Join us to explore the expansive world of Virtual Reality:   Immersivity visualize data, anatomy, molecules, math equations, historical sites and events, or even comics.   Paint, sculpt, animate, and work with 3D models/environments  Learn languages, circuitry, lab chemistry, medical procedure, extended-reality (or "XR," including VR and 360) media production.   Play games for transportive narrative, exercise, team building, or just plain fun.  Explore the great outdoors, real-world geography, or hypothetical interior designs.   Simulate colorblindness, an astronaut experience, or a rollercoaster ride. ... And so much more!   For parking information visit http://maps.msu.edu/interactive. If you have questions about accessibility or need to request accommodations, please email lib.dl.accessibility@msu.edu.

• Research Data Management Best Practices

  October 09, 2024 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

  DSL Flex Space (Main Library, 2 West)

  Why is research data management so important? Effective research data management is an active and ongoing process during the entire research lifecycle, from project conception to long after it is finished. Best practices for research data management can help you secure grant funding enhance the ability to share data internally during a project bring traditional library and archival expertise for the organization and care of digital information to your own personal research projects create a data output that can become part of the scholarly record, earning recognition and citations ensure your data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable for the wider research community after publication help you make efficient and effective use of research funding This workshop will help you: plan for organizing and managing your data from the outset of the project identify several specific data management practice recommended by various funding agencies be better able to Attendance can be in-person or virtual via Zoom!

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