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Breakerspace Workshop: Loom Weaving – Shoelaces

Toaster Breakerspace (Walter Library Basement) 117 Pleasant St. S.E. (Lower Level), Minneapolis, MN, United States

Give your favorite kicks the personality they deserve by handweaving your own shoelaces! Join us to learn about how to use your very own loom to make cords and straps, design the laces of your dreams, and start weaving. You’ll leave with everything you need to finish a pair of custom shoelaces! Makers of all experience levels and abilities are welcome.

Free

ONLINE: Introduction to EndNote and EndNote Online

Virtual Event

Learn about using EndNote to import citations, customize your account, and format your bibliographies and in-text citations. We'll also discuss using EndNote in conjunction with EndNote Online, a web-based version of EndNote freely available to current University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff. We will send a Zoom link to students who are registered one day before the workshop.

Free

ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

Virtual Event

Meet with fellow students on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more.  Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office.  We will send a zoom link to students who are registered once registration ends. Please note this library session is online only.

Free

Drop-In Workshop: VR for Human Anatomy

HSL VR Studio (5-132 Health Sciences Education Center) 526 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Got 15 minutes to spare? Come learn how you can use Primal VR at home with a borrowed headset to study anatomy in 3D virtual reality. Attendees can come and go at any point during the hour.

Free
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‘Dear Community’ Exhibit Reception

Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

Join the Tretter Collection and Curator Aiden M. Bettine on April 9 to celebrate the exhibit, “Dear Community: Mail, Correspondence, and Postal Activism in LGBTQ History.” By incorporating love letters, personal ads, mail order catalogs, and reader written periodicals from the 1950s through today, this exhibit shows how sending mail has been a vehicle for queer and trans people to find themselves, find each other, and build community.

Free
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Letters That Link Us

Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

Letters That Link Us: Histories and Mysteries of Hebrew Type An Interdisciplinary Symposium Join the...

Free

CANCELLED – Intro to Vacuum Forming

HSL Makerspace (5-101 Health Sciences Education Center) 526 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Learn how to use a vacuum former to make a chocolate bar mold! During this workshop you can expect to learn the basics of mold making and its applications. Feel free to stay after to make a mold of your own!

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Friends Forum — The Joy of Children’s Literature: A Conversation Without a Net

Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

Please join us on the afternoon of April 14 for a Friends Forum event. Expect the unexpected as we feature a free-wheeling conversation about the children’s books and their creators with award-winning authors Andrea Davis Pinkney and Jon Sciezka, and Kerlan Curator Lisa Von Drasek.

Free

Makerspace Workshop: Miniature Painting for Beginners

Toaster Breakerspace (Walter Library Basement) 117 Pleasant St. S.E. (Lower Level), Minneapolis, MN, United States

Learn the basics of painting miniature figurines often used in tabletop RPGs and board games! Join us to learn introductory skills such as brush care, paint thinning, applying washes, highlighting, and more. No experience is necessary, come and paint a miniature that you can keep! All supplies will be provided.

Free

Learn 3D Modeling in VR with Gravity Sketch

HSL VR Studio (5-132 Health Sciences Education Center) 526 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States

In this workshop, discover how virtual reality can be used for prototyping, room tours, biophilic assessment, showcasing your work and more. Whether you’re interested in design or just curious about the applications of virtual reality, this workshop is for you!

Free

Walter Library 100 Pop-Up Exhibit

Walter Library 117 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, United States

Walter Library is turning 100 years old! Explore a mini-exhibit about the history and construction...

Free

Intro to 3D printing (filament and resin)

HSL Makerspace (5-101 Health Sciences Education Center) 526 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Unlock the potential of your creativity by mastering the art of 3D printing! This workshop is an opportunity to not only understand the wide-ranging applications of 3D printing but also its limitations. You'll gain hands-on experience on how to safely and efficiently operate a 3D printer. Don't miss the chance to bring your ideas to life - stick around after the workshop to get your project underway!

Free

Virtual Reality @ Rapson: Collaborative Design in VR/AR with Gravity Sketch

In this workshop, we will be demonstrating how a team can design 3D objects together with augmented reality using a Meta Quest 2 or 3 using an app called Gravity Sketch. Whether you’re interested in design or just curious about the applications of virtual reality, this workshop is for you!

Free
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