Students are more digitally fluent than ever before, but what happens when they use digital tools to record their lives? Extern Hanna-Mae Greenfield uses 3D scanning to teach about archives at sites.temple.edu/tudsc/2026/0...

We've got a busy week this week! It may not seem like much, but it's much more than first meets the eye. 👀 Register for Play & Learn: charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16120312 Check out the full list of workshops and talks for the Electronics Faire on its site: sites.temple.edu/efaire/

Hannah is the next staff member to introduce themself in our series of get-to-know-yous. Learn a bit about our maestro of the makerspace and expert of electronics on our blog! 🔌 sites.temple.edu/tudsc/2026/0...

Registration for the Electronics Faire Workshops is live! All workshops are free and open to everyone, but most require registration. You can find out more about the Electronics Faire and get all the registration links at sites.temple.edu/efaire

We have availability this week for appointments! You can request a time to come in at charlesstudy.temple.edu/reserve/spac...

Who owns words? Authors? Publishers? Researchers? Join us Tuesday, March 24 from 3-4:30 for a panel discussion that will feature various Temple University faculty and staff discussing the legal and ethical concerns raised by the use of copyrighted text for use in large language models.

‼️ TODAY ‼️ Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Tore Olsson (University of Tennessee) This event is in-person and also available via Zoom. Please use this link to register: temple.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Honor Women's History Month by celebrating women’s voices, stories, and impact! 📚 Explore Temple Libraries’ must-read picks that spotlight the strength, wisdom, and leadership of women who’ve shaped education and inspired generations. 🌟 Check out the full list on our Instagram @temple_libraries

Ever wanted to make your own paper? In this workshop on Thursday, 3/19 from 12:00-1:00pm, we’ll explore how 3D-printed molds and laser-cut stencils can expand traditional papermaking practices. Register at charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16110988 and be ready to get your hands in some pulp!

Get creative with us this week! --- Events requiring registration: Intro to 3D Scanning charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16106998 Makerspace 101: Making Stickers on the Vinyl Cutter charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16110938

Curious about 3D scanning? In this workshop from 12:00pm - 1:30pm on Tuesday, March 10, attendees will learn the fundamentals of 3D scanning by generating point clouds from videos captured with a 360° camera. No prior experience required!

starting to plan the electronics faire proceedings and designing always helps me visualize the event. this year i am pulling inspiration from maintenance and repair manuals. i loooove the visual language for the brother jp-15x electronic typewriter, found on the @archive.org !!!

We couldn't read the greats like Anna Karenina, The Metamorphosis or Don Quixote without literary translators. Philly's own are doing their part, translating anti-war journals from Russian, representing queer French texts and bringing new perspectives to the U.S. billypenn.com/2026/03/03/l...

Matt is the next up in our get-to-know-you series on our blog! Get to about know him and what he does here at the LCDSS. 🐝 sites.temple.edu/tudsc/2026/0...

Our extern, Jiayu, 3D-scanned the Makerspace in a simple walk-through. Images captured with the Insta360 X3 camera; model created with Agisoft Metashape. Mark the date for her workshop, Intro to 3D scanning, on March 10th, at 12 pm in the VR lab. library.temple.edu/events/2239

A day as an extern at the scholar studio starts with a board game, Bee Lives (created by our own head of LCDSS, Matt Shoemaker). Who says work and play can't coexist?

Tiny planets or wormholes? Many fun effects like these can be easily achieved with an Insta360 X3 camera. Check one out at LCDSS and explore your own tiny planet🌍!

Join us in the LCDSS Makerspace (3rd Floor) between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM for gaming and exploration! We've selected a few games from our collection to play. Let us know you're coming by registering at charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16117402

Jordan is our featured staff member kicking off a series of get-to-know-yous! Learn a bit about him and his life inside and outside the LCDSS. 👾 sites.temple.edu/tudsc/2026/0...

The 2026 Repair Electronics Faire open call is now live! Please share around with anyone who may be interested :) sites.temple.edu/efaire/repair/

We're living life in 3D this week! Well... I guess we live in three dimensions all the time? In any case, come by for 3D printing, 3D scanning, and 3D visualization in VR!! (Or use our regular consoles for some 2D fun)

Ever wanted to alter or copy an object using a 3D printer? In this workshop on Thursday, 2/19 from 12-1pm, Art M.Ed. extern Hanna Greenfield will share a workflow for bringing an object from scan to print, and all of the software involved in-between.

Still need to ask that special someone to be your valentine? Plan a cute crafting date or make that last-minute card at the Makerspace's Valentine's Day Crafting Workshop. Sign up to use markers, pens, paper, heart cutouts, the typewriter, and more on Friday, February 13, 2026 from 1:30-4:00pm.

Join us for some love-ly events this Valentine's week. 💙 --- Events requiring registration: Love Data Week: Intro to AI-assisted Text Mining in Proquest TDM Studio charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16106774 Douglass Dat Transcribe-A-Thon (registration requested) charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16112673

Join us for a Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon where we work together with institutions across the country to transcribe archive documents! This year, we'll be transcribing materials from the Colored Conventions Project. (1/3)

We have a great pair of events this week! --- Events requiring registration: Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16105964

Temple's LCDSS invites applications for the 2026-2027 Graduate Extern Program! Externs receive a stipend, fees, benefits, and one tuition credit per semester, as well as an expense allowance of $500!

Are you a Temple faculty member with a creative or scholarly project? Would you like one course reduction for the academic year, as well as help with project management, research assistance, and a $1000 research fund? If so, you should apply for the LCDSS Faculty Fellowship Program!

Did you enjoy the long weekend? We sure did! But we're ready to be jumping back into things this week. --- Events requiring registration: Makerspace 101: 3D Printing charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16042455

The 2026 Makerspace Residency is accepting submissions for the first residency session until April 5th. The residency is a 2 week period to work with the Makerspace staff and equipment. A $500 honorarium is awarded for participating and each residency project will receive up to $500 in materials.

"How can we teach empathy through artmaking?" Graduate Extern Hanna-Mae Greenfield investigates the way 3D scanning and digitization can bridge the physical world and conceptual understanding in art education in this blog post:

Brrrrr, get in from the cold and join us for a pair of programs for fun this week! We have crafts and video games to enjoy this Friday. --- Events requiring registration: Winter Holiday Decor charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/15216519

Virtual Reality, 3D modeling, and wax worms, oh my! Read about how Graduate Extern Jiayu Yang’s project uses 3D and VR to simulate and capture the "more-than-human reality” of wax worms:

We've got an exciting collection of programs for this week! Come join us to learn some of the basics of digitizing objects for study or come by for laser cutting and rocket league later in the week.

Ever tried 3D scanning? Have any everyday objects you want to preserve as digital artifacts? In this 90-minute workshop, participants will learn the different ways that researchers use scanning technologies to preserve cultural heritage. Register at library.temple.edu/events/2146

The LCDSS's graduate extern fellow Ye Ju Ki is using their scholarship to address the lack of asexual representation in contemporary media. Learn more about how their project combines media studies with digital methods: sites.temple.edu/tudsc/2025/1...

This week we've got some great programs! Learn to examine media with Intro to Video Analysis, play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, or join us to practice mending skills.

Join graduate extern Ye Ju Ki at Intro to Video Analysis: Analyzing Representation on Screen on Wednesday 11/12 from 1-2:30pm. We'll be going over the tools ELAN, Cinemetrics, and Distant Viewing Lab to examine and analyze visual portrayals of identity and diversity in film and television.

Explore simulations of real (or not so real) life! Whether you're looking to get silly in Ultimate Chicken Horse or explore the possibilities of Biospheres, we're capturing both ends of the spectrum this week.

How do we visualize the complex connections of the living world? Join graduate extern Jiayu Yang for Intro to 3D Modeling: Imagining Biospheres on Tuesday 11/4 from 12-1:30pm. We'll introduce attendees to using Tilt Brush and Unity’s 3D modeling capabilities to design and explore living biospheres.

Happy Halloween Week! We've got an exciting group of programs this week, both in VR and in the Makerspace. Most of them require registration, so make sure to grab your spot while space is open! See these and more events on the library calendar: library.temple.edu/events

Join graduate extern Jo Liberman on Tuesday 10/28 from 12-1:30pm for Intro to VR: Creating Environments in VR and Exploring VR Applications. We'll cover how to use virtual reality software to conduct research, developing VR environments in Unity, as well as its potential uses in a variety of fields.

LCDSS’s Alex Wermer-Colan and Texas A&M University’s Sarah Potvin’s "Legal and Ethical Considerations for Curating Copyrighted Literary Collections as Data" will appear in the IMLS’s forthcoming Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians! Learn more about their work at dataspeculations.org

This week is light in number, but heavy in content! See these and more events on the library calendar: library.temple.edu/events ----- Events requiring registration: Games and Learning: Rosenstrasse library.temple.edu/events/2152

Book banners really are judging books by their covers 📚 More than 80% of banned titles show people on the cover — and most of those feature women or people of color. Research by @alexwermercolan.bsky.social: buff.ly/rHm0sFG... #bannedbooks #polisky #books

We've got a great lineup of programs this week! Some repeating, some new. See these and more events on the library calendar: library.temple.edu/events

Thanks for joining us on Bluesky! Stay tuned for resources, event information, and more! 🦉📚 Photo by Ryan Brandenberg