February 2017 Archives

Introduction to Story Maps: Combine Narrative and GIS

March 7 from 2:00-3:30pm in Bass Library, L06

Learn how to combine texts, images, and videos with maps using Esri's free Story Maps platform. In this workshop, participants will learn how to design a web-map with sample data, explore different Story Maps templates for showcasing research, and develop basic strategies to avoid copyright infringement. 

Computers and sample data will be available for use. Participants are also welcome to bring their own data.

The workshop is open to Yale students, faculty, and staff. To register, please visit the YUL Instruction Calendar.

Instructors: Catherine DeRose (DHLab), Joan Emmet (YUL), Miriam Olivares (GIS)

The Ten Thousand Rooms Project

Speakers: Prof. Mick Hunter & Prof. Tina Lu

Time: 4:00 pm-5:00 pm, Thursday March 2

Place: Room L01 A & B, Bass Library

Professor Mick Hunter and Professor Tina Lu (East Asian Languages & Literatures) will introduce the Ten Thousand Rooms Project, a collaborative workspace for the study of pre-modern Chinese texts that is supported by Yale University and the Mellon Foundation. Through the platform, users can upload images of the materials they wish to work on, define scholarly projects around those materials, invite others to join their projects, and collaboratively produce transcriptions, translations, and commentaries. As a shared workspace, a publication venue for core philological work, a textual repository, and a pedagogical tool, the Ten Thousand Rooms platform has any number of uses for students, teachers, researchers, and librarians. 

All are welcome. Sponsored by the East Asia Library.

Help preserve federal government data! Join us for a one-day event from 9am-4pm on March 4 in the 17 Hillhouse, TEAL Classroom at as we locate data to archive from the federal government and find ways to archive what web crawlers cannot grab. The best part is that you don’t need programming skills to participate—just the ability to use the Internet.

DataRescue New Haven @ Yale is an effort to identify, download, and preserve federal research data to ensure ongoing access by scholars, policymakers, journalists, and the public. This event is modeled on DataRescues happening around the United States. To learn more, click here.

There are many ways to contribute to a DataRescue event. We are looking for participants who have experience with any of the following: Internet browsing, subject area/disciplinary knowledge, front- or back-end web design, programming language(s), APIs or web scraping, knowledge of data formats, metadata, or social media skills. Everyone is welcome; we will find a role for you!

Please bring your own laptop to the event. Refreshments will be provided.

DataRescue New Haven @ Yale is sponsored by the Yale University Library, the Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library; the Yale School of Forestry & Environment Studies; and the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, with support from the Office of the Deputy Provost for Research.

Workshop: Data Visualization with Tableau

February 10 from 10:00am-12:00pm in the Center for Science and Social Science Information (KBT C27)

This workshop will familiarize you with key issues in data visualization. In addition to covering the fundamental principles behind effective visualizations, we will also touch on common pitfalls that result in confusing or misleading graphics. During the workshop, participants will gain hands-on experience using Tableau — interactive, data visualization software — to produce dynamic, compelling visualizations for all kinds of data.

Space for the workshop is limited; to register, please visit the YUL Instruction Calendar.

Instructors: Catherine DeRose (DHLab), Joshua Dull (StatLab), Sarah Tudesco (YUL)

This Know Before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. workshop series invites librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. to introduce their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, and access policies. In this session on Friday, February 24 (12:30pm in Room 218 in SML), we will hear from Ms. Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian at Duke University, and Dr. Kristina Troost, Head of International Area Studies and Japanese Studies Librarian at Duke University. You will have the rare opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the near future.

A light lunch will be provided, thanks to generous support from the Council on East Asian Studies.

From February 20-24, Yale University Library will be hosting a series of events to mark Fair Use Week – an annual celebration held the last week of February celebrating the important doctrines of Fair Use in the United States. Members of the Yale community are welcome to join us for any or all of these events.


Fair Use Week Popup Table, Medical Library


Monday, February 20, 1:00-3:00 pm, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library


Drop by to learn about Fair Use (*see below) and how you can analyze the four factors of Fair Use in your own work. Librarians will provide a helpful handout and candy!



Fair Use in the Arts Panel Discussion


Monday, February 20, 5:00 pm, Digital Media Center for the Arts, 149 York


Join us for a discussion on Fair Use in the visual arts centered around communities of artistic practice, by Johannes DeYoung, Justin Berry and Matthew Leifheit. We’ll explore different ways artists, designers, and makers invoke Fair Use in their work, particularly as it applies to the visual arts. Panelists will offer their perspectives and experiences navigating copyright restrictions and how Fair Use helps guide and protect artistic practice.

Fair Use Week Popup Table, Sterling Memorial Library


Tuesday, February 21, 1:00-3:00 pm, Sterling Memorial Library Nave


Drop by to learn about Fair Use (*see below) and how you can analyze the four factors of Fair Use in your own work. Librarians will provide a helpful handout and candy!

Fair Use Week Popup Table, Yale Divinity Library


Thursday, February 23, 1:30-3:30 pm, Yale Divinity Library, 409 Prospect


Drop by to learn about Fair Use (*see below) and how you can analyze the four factors of Fair Use in your own work. Librarians will provide a helpful handout and candy!


Copyright Protection Gave Superman the Ability to Stop Bullets; Fair Use Made Him a God


Friday, February 24, 3:00 pm, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall


Superman is a Depression-era hero thriving in a post-industrial world. His many iterations began with a short story written by a high school student about a mad scientist who performed experiments on men waiting in bread lines. Superman was the mad scientist, he was bald, and he was not a “good guy.” The two high school students who continued to develop Superman eventually realized that people living through the Great Depression needed a hero who could root out corruption, manhandle machines, and sympathize with human frailty. Without early copyright protection, Superman almost certainly would not have developed into the well-known character he is today. Without the Fair Use exception to copyright infringement, however, Superman would not have developed into an archetype. Through Superman, we will trace the history of Fair Use and highlight its importance. The talk will be given by Anderson Duff, Partner at Revision Legal, New York, NY.

A full listing of library events can be found here.


*Material provided at all events is for information purposes only and should not be considered legal advice


All you need is love…and a data management plan! It’s Love Your Data Week (February 13-17), and Yale University Library, in partnership with the Office of the Deputy Provost for Research, is offering events and workshops throughout the week! Learn more here.

This “Know before you go: Researching East Asia in the U.S.” workshop series invites librarians and directors from major East Asian collections in the U.S. to introduce and show off their rare and unique resources, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, travel grants, access policies, etc. Join us on Friday, February 17 at 12 noon in the East Asia Library (SML, room 218), where the speakers will be Dr. Martin Heijdra, Library Director, Acting Chinese & Western Bibliographer, and Head of Public Services at Princeton University; and Ms. Setsuko Noguchi, Japanese Studies Librarian at Princeton. This is a unique opportunity to meet and connect with them before visiting their libraries to conduct your own research during the summer or in the near future.

Light lunches will be provided, thanks to the generous support from the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale.