Spring Digital Scholarship Services Short Courses

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Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) at Fondren Library fosters the effective, creative use of digital technology in research, learning, and scholarly communication by providing infrastructure, consulting, and training. Register now for our Spring short courses, which are free and open to Rice students, faculty, staff, and eligible Friends of Fondren unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit DSS Website: http://library.rice.edu/dss.
If our existing courses do not meet your needs, please contact the department for a custom training.

Digital Media Commons (DMC): Schedule and registration

DMC offers a wide range of hands-on workshops to teach a variety of media applications and skills.
  • Audio/video – recording with DMC equipment and editing in Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, and Premiere
  • Photography – covering camera, lens, lighting, and touching up in Lightroom
  • Web and graphics – creating personal websites with CampusPress, academic posters in PowerPoint, newsletters in InDesign, photo collages in Photoshop, and vector logos and scientific illustrations in Illustrator
  • 3D modeling and animation – authoring 3D models and rendering animated research videos in Blender

  • Research – managing reference data with Zotero and analyzing data with Tableau

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Data Center: Schedule and registration

GIS is being used for everything from simple navigation on Google Maps to more complex cartography, spatial analysis, and modeling. We offer introductory courses that form a strong foundation of GIS knowledge and teach central concepts and tools necessary to complete a broad spectrum of GIS projects and analysis.
  • Getting started with ArcGIS 
  • Bringing data into ArcGIS 
  • Manipulating data in ArcGIS  
  • Spatial statistics in ArcGIS 
  • Census data 

Kelley Center for Government Information 

Designated a Federal Depository by the U.S. Congress and a Patent and Trademark Resources Center (PTRC) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we offer expert information and instruction with two series:

  • Government Information for Research and More: Schedule and registration 

    • Civic engagement related training
    • Overview of U.S. government publications, essential resources, discovery tools, and key search strategies
    • Exploring open government data resources using open data software
    • Searching and finding various types of government information (e.g. laws, rules, regulations)

  • Patents and Trademarks Searching: Schedule and registration 

Note: Patents and Trademarks workshops are open to the general public.
  • Intellectual property basics, focused on U.S. law
  • Finding trademarks and using the USPTO’s database search tools
  • Performing comprehensive patent searches using patent office databases

Library Publishing Services: Schedule and registration

Publishing services align with Fondren Library’s efforts to deepen the impact and visibility of Rice research. Services and resources have been developed to support scholarly publications created by members of the Rice community. Workshops cover a wide range of scholarly publishing issues, publishing platforms, and tools:
  • Library publishing virtual coffee chats
  • Understanding open access
  • Prevent link rot with Perma.cc

Research Data Services (RDS): Schedule and registration

RDS collaborates with the Center for Research Computing to host the Data@Rice workshop series, which provides Rice researchers with hands-on training that spans the research data lifecycle: 
  • Data management – best practices for effective and secure data management
  • Data analysis and visualization – programming in R, Python, SQL, and Docker

  • Research computing – data storage and transfer, virtual machines, supercomputers, and more!