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…

• Why We March: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

  January 21, 2026 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

  Special Collections Seminar Room (Main Library,1 West)

  Join MSU Libraries for a pop-up exhibition to highlight historical marches and commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington. The exhibition showcases a collection of protest posters compiled at the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963. At the original March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his…

• 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. 

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