Upcoming Event: 3-D Printing and Making at Temple University, Friday, Sept. 26
This coming Friday Matt Shoemaker will be giving a 1 hour presentation as an introduction to 3D printing and making technologies and how they are currently used in DH and scholarship. This is a repeat of a presentation he gave on this topic this past spring. If interested, please just add your name to the RSVP list and come to the Science and Engineering Library on Temple campus at 3:30 this Friday.
First in a series of talks on 3D printing.
3D Printing and Making
Friday, September 26
3:30 – 4:30, Science & Engineering Library (SEL)
Technologies that allow at-home, in-lab or in-classroom fabrication have been rapidly increasing in quality and decreasing in price making them more accessible. As a result, 3D printers, 3D scanners and other making technologies are now becoming available on university campuses. This presentation will provide an overview of how these technologies are currently being incorporated into scholarly research and pedagogical methods.
Presenter: Matt Shoemaker, Digital and Web Services Librarian,
Temple University Libraries
Light refreshments will be served
Location: SEL is on the 2nd floor of the Engineering Bldg,12th & Norris Sts.
RSVP requested, but not required.
Upcoming Event: Wikipedia Interest Group at Vitale II Lab, Penn Library, Friday, Sept. 26
Beginning this month, the Vitale II lab in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts will be hosting a Wikipedia interest group for monthly Wikipedia edit-a-thons, with the aim of bringing the holdings of the Van Pelt Library, particularly those of the Kislak Center, to bear in Wikipedia entries. We’ll add digital images of Penn materials to Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia’s database of images, and we’ll also create new entries, and update and add sources to existing ones, focusing on a different topic each month. For the first month we’ll focus on the basics:
* Setting up a Wikipedia account
* How to add materials to Wikimedia Commons
* How to edit a Wikipedia entry
The first meeting of the Wikipedia interest group will be on Friday, September 26th, from 11:30 to 1:30. Light snacks and drinks will be provided, and attendees are welcome to bring lunch. Bring a laptop, if you have one; a small number of laptops will be available in the lab. Vitale II is located on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, room 623.
Please share this announcement with your colleagues and students. Questions? Contact Dot Porter, at do…@upenn.edu
Upcoming Event: GLAM Cafe/PhillyDH Meeting, September 9
A reminder that as usual, there will be a GLAM Cafe at the Chemical Heritage Foundation starting at 5pm on Tuesday, September 9. It will be accompanied with a regular meeting of PhillyDH starting around 6pm.