Eugene Ormandy Family Home Movies: Film 1

Film 1. 1 film reel (16:08 min.) : si., b&w : 16 mm, 1934. Begins with a scene outside of Eugene Ormandy's home at 1801 Dupont Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN. A fire at the house across the street (0:00). Neighbors gather to watch, as a firetruck arrives, firemen put out the fire and leave. Many instances scattered throughout of Ormandy's niece Anna "Hanni" Elbogen (Forester), watching the fire (1:45), walking around outside the house (2:07), watering the backyard (2:16),…

Installing Zotero

This video goes over installing the Zotero application and the Zotero Connector for the first time.

Data Wrangling with Open Refine

Wrangling your data with various tools allows you to restructure information so that it can be easily understood by people and analyzed by machines. Want to efficiently clean your data? In this week's workshop, we'll work in OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with data. Learn about tidying your data, transforming it from one format to another, and extending it with various web services. This workshop is part of the (Open) Data Jam hosted by the Libraries' Research Data and…

Retraction Watch: Dr. Ivan Oransky

This is a recording of Dr. Ivan Oransky's inaugural talk in a new lecture series by the Leon Levy Dental Library. "Does Science Self-Correct? What We've Learned at Retraction Watch" Retraction Watch, a project of the Center for Scientific Integrity, is a website that investigates and reports upon retractions in the scientific literature.

Meet Mayelin Perez, Librarian for Literatures in English & Theatre Arts

Meet Brian Vivier, Librarian for Chinese Studies

Meet Deb Stewart, Librarian for Anthropology and Museum Library Head

Meet John Pollack, Curator at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts