Pop up exhibit: Creepy Crawlies
Wangensteen Historical Library, 2-340 Phillips-Wangensteen Building (PWB) 516 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesCelebrate Halloween at the Wangensteen's Creepy Crawlies pop up exhibit!
Celebrate Halloween at the Wangensteen's Creepy Crawlies pop up exhibit!
Spend a cozy afternoon relaxing and reading in the unique Upson Room (room 102) at Walter Library! Bring a spooky book to read, select one from a pop-up library of fun books, try the Libby app for fun ebooks or audiobooks or just come hang out with fellow readers.
Join us on Oct. 30 for a talk on climate narratives in Finnish-American history by Lotta Leiwo, University of Helsinki PhD Candidate in History and Cultural Heritage. Leiwo’s research focuses on Finnish American socialist women’s history and the cultural history of climate. Additionally, Daniel Necas, Archivist at the Immigration History Research Center Archives, will present the IHRCA records available both on-site and online, as well as provide guidance on how to access them.
Let’s talk about love! From love letters to break up letters, the course of true love never did run smooth. Join us for the 2024-2025 season of First Fridays as we share matters of the heart from collections across Archives and Special Collections. The November program features presentations from the Social Welfare History Archives and the Children’s Literature Research Collections.
Join us for a hands-on drawing workshop in the atmospheric Upson room in Walter Library (room 102), get introduced to the world of botanical art. We will begin with an introduction to botanical art then the drawing will begin with exercises that emphasize the importance of looking closely at intricate details of natural autumnal specimens.
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.
In this 45-minute workshop you will meet other veterans on campus, learn tips and tricks from military affiliated Libraries staff for doing research for papers and projects, accessing library materials, and getting help when you are off-campus.
Join us Nov. 14 for a reception and guided gallery tours of the exhibit, “Journey to Joy: Rise, Relevance, Representation in Children’s Picture Books.”
Please join us on Nov. 20 for the 2024 James Ford Bell Lecture, “A Mixture of Nations: Feeding Children and Empires in the Early American Northeast,” presented by Carla Cevasco, Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of “Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast.”
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.
Join us at Wilson Library (west bank) for PAWS (Pet Away Worry and Stress) from UMN Boynton Health. Drop in at any time to meet registered therapy animal teams—including dogs, bunnies, cats, chickens, and other therapy animals. Sessions are FREE and open to the University of Minnesota community. All are welcome!
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for a book reading and conversation with author Taiyon J. Coleman. Coleman’s new book, “Traveling Without Moving,” includes an essay about the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice Program.
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.
Let’s talk about love! From love letters to break up letters, the course of true love never did run smooth. Join us for the 2024-2025 season of First Fridays as we share matters of the heart from collections across Archives and Special Collections. The December program features presentations from the Andersen Horticultural Library and the Wangensteen Historical Library.
Join us at Wilson Library (west bank) for PAWS (Pet Away Worry and Stress) from UMN Boynton Health. Drop in at any time to meet registered therapy animal teams—including dogs, bunnies, cats, chickens, and other therapy animals. Sessions are FREE and open to the University of Minnesota community. All are welcome!
Meet with fellow learners 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 the day before the workshop.
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