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The Michigan State University Libraries and the College of Arts & Letters partnered to build a state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab, opened in February, 2018. The 10,000-square-foot space in the Main Library features a 360-degree immersive visualization room that accommodates up to 15 students along with a Virtual Reality room for experimentation with VR headsets.

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Spring Semester 2026 Events & Workshops

January 08, 2026

Justin Wadland

Join the DSL for our events, workshops, or drop-in sessions. This semester we're hosting events for Love Data Week, Douglass Day, and a Software Carpentry workshop, among other activities.
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Call for Proposals: Spring Research Talks

December 16, 2025

Eli Wachter

Imari Cheyne Tetu

WRAP (Writing, Rhetoric, and Praxis) and the Digital Scholarship Lab invite graduate students to submit proposals for the Spring Research Talks.
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Graduate Arts Fellowship 2026

December 09, 2025

Justin Wadland

The College of Arts and Letters and the Digital Scholarship Lab invite applications for the 2026 Graduate Arts Fellowship.
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Events & Workshops

  • Research Data Management: Best Practices for organizing and managing your data

    January 20, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

    Why is research data management so important? This workshop will help you plan for organizing and managing your data from the outset of your project.   We will look at some basic best practices for: organizing your data cleaning/prepping/working with your data working with multiple data files storage solutions long-term…

  • Learn QGIS: Making a color shaded map with data in QGIS (Online)

    January 21, 2026 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open-source geospatial software—this workshop will demonstrate fundamental GIS skills including how to make a choropleth (color shaded) map, load shape-files and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information and edit features. 

  • Data Visualization as a Career Skill

    January 26, 2026 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Online

    Will you be searching for a job soon? Are you currently job hunting? If yes, this workshop is for you! This workshop will focus on how data visualization skills translate to the job market. We will be going over career paths that emphasize data visualization skills, how to talk about these skills in interviews, and resources to improve…

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