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2024 Pankake Poetry Event: Gwen Westerman
2024 Pankake Poetry Event: Gwen Westerman
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Gwen Westerman at the 15th annual Pankake Poetry event in Elmer L. Andersen Library on April 3, 2024.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Gwen Westerman at the 15th annual Pankake Poetry event in Elmer L. Andersen Library on April 3, 2024.
Travel anywhere in the world or even visit your house! Google Earth VR combines all of the image data in Google Earth with the immersiveness of a virtual reality experience, so it can feel like you are standing where you grew up, studied abroad, or would like to go someday. Join us for a virtual world tour!
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!
Learn how to operate a laser cutter and vinyl cutter! During this workshop you can expect to learn about the different use cases of digital cutting machines, how to safely and effectively use them, and how to make your own custom designs! Feel free to stay after to do a project of your own!
Join us on April 5 for an event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring presentations from the Children’s Literature Research Collections and the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
Unleash your inner artist with Adobe Illustrator, no prior design experience necessary! Our Toaster Ambassador, Faith, will guide you through the nuances of Adobe Illustrator tools and the wealth of free online resources at your fingertips. Imagine mastering the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator tools, like layers, shapes, text, images, and the pen tool, in this immersive workshop. Envision understanding where to access free design resources like fonts, imagery, and inspiration. This is your chance to transform your ideas into stunning creations. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the world of design with us!
Getting ready to do a poster for your course, an upcoming conference or at the...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Letters That Link Us: Histories and Mysteries of Hebrew Type An Interdisciplinary Symposium Join the...
It is National Library Week (April 7-13) and Walter Library is turning 100 years old!...
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!
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.
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.
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!
Walter Library is turning 100 years old! Explore a mini-exhibit about the history and construction...
Join the Department of Art History for the Catherine B. Asher Lecture in South Asian...
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!
Are you ready for the new album? Do you like a Friday afternoon study break...
This Embracing our Roots event will focus on two couples: Arts giants Seitu Ken Jones & Soyini Vinelle Guyton with next generation couple, Anura & Rekhet Si-Asar. They will engage in a wide-ranging conversation on family, community, and the ways they work and walk together. Embracing Our Roots is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story, In Black Ink, and the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life.
Come join us in crafting at our Hand-Sewn Stuffed Animal Frog Workshop! Create your own adorable frog friend with magnets in its hands for clinging around objects and magnetic surfaces. Our ambassadors will guide you through every step, from cutting fabric to stitching it together, so no previous skills are required! Join us for a fun-filled session of creativity and froggy fun!
Get ready for an exhilarating workshop where you'll craft and design picture frames to showcase your cherished moments from your year at UMN! We're offering a range of frame styles (5x7), ready for your personal touch. Then, dive into the vast array of materials at the Toaster Makerspace for decoration. It's a creative adventure waiting just for you!
Bring your broken clothing or other textiles and we will teach you how to mend! No experience needed, materials provided. Hope to see you there!
Get ready to dive into an exciting journey with the VR and Toaster Teams! We're exploring the wonders of Unity, the software that lets you design real-time 2D and 3D virtual reality games. This course is your golden ticket to mastering Unity's basic features while having a blast creating a fun, simple truck-driving game. Don't forget to bring your laptop to join in on the hands-on fun during our workshop!
Get ready for finals and the end of semester! Bring your homework and get stuff...
Get ready, graduation is here! It's time to strut your stuff across that stage with style. Come and join us for a grad cap decorating party! We're providing all the supplies, so all you need to bring is your creativity and excitement for your big day! Let's make your graduation an event to remember!
Join us for a pop-up exhibit at the Mathematics Library to to explore the history...
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 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.
Ready for finals? Have final papers and projects or a mountain of homework to finish...
Get ready, graduation is here! It's time to strut your stuff across that stage with style. Come and join us for a grad cap decorating party! We're providing all the supplies, so all you need to bring is your creativity and excitement for your big day! Let's make your graduation an event to remember!
Get ready, graduation is here! It's time to strut your stuff across that stage with style. Come and join us for a grad cap decorating party! We're providing all the supplies, so all you need to bring is your creativity and excitement for your big day! Let's make your graduation an event to remember!
Join the Health Sciences Library for Stressbusters Tea & Treats on May 1 and May 2 from 11:00am-2:00pm at our service desk on the 5th floor of PWB. Need a complete break from cramming? Check out the HSL Makerspace for button making, 3D printing, vinyl stickers, sewing, or to make a card. The VR Studio is also open for enjoying gaming apps, along with tai chi, meditation, and other stress relieving/wellness apps. The Makerspace and VR Studio are open Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00-7:00pm and Wednesday and Friday from 12:00-5:00pm.
Get ready, graduation is here! It's time to strut your stuff across that stage with style. Come and join us for a grad cap decorating party! We're providing all the supplies, so all you need to bring is your creativity and excitement for your big day! Let's make your graduation an event to remember!
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 the Health Sciences Library for Stressbusters Tea & Treats on May 1 and May 2 from 11:00am-2:00pm at our service desk on the 5th floor of PWB. Need a complete break from cramming? Check out the HSL Makerspace for button making, 3D printing, vinyl stickers, sewing, or to make a card. The VR Studio is also open for enjoying gaming apps, along with tai chi, meditation, and other stress relieving/wellness apps. The Makerspace and VR Studio are open Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00-7:00pm and Wednesday and Friday from 12:00-5:00pm.
Join us on May 3 for the concluding event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring a presentations from the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives and the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
The University of Minnesota Libraries are pleased to announce and host “Play Again?”: An Online Mini-Symposium to be held May 3, 2024 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m CST. The theme for this online mini-symposium will be “Horror in video game music and sound.”
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