Happy World Book and Copyright Day! This day is all about celebrating books and how books unite people from across a variety of backgrounds. Every year UNESCO selects a World Book Capital. This year UNESCO has selected Rabat in Morocco for this honor. Rabat was selected because of its dedication towards literary development, getting women Read More

March 2-6, 2026 is the 15th annual Open Education Week! Open Education is a movement to make learning free, accessible, and flexible for everyone. The goal is to remove barriers to high quality learning and resources through sharing, adapting, and building upon the work that others have done. Open Education Week serves as a global Read More

The Catholic University of America Libraries and Department of Information Sciences provide Digital Scholarship Workshops designed to equip students, faculty, and staff with the essential skills for modern research. This semester, workshop topics cover mapping with Tableau, responsible AI use in research, evaluating AI-generated claims, text analysis, legal and ethical issues with AI and TDM, and Read More

Over the 2024-2025 academic year, the Catholic University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship team has continued to support and inspire a vibrant research culture by offering practical instruction, writing on critical scholarly issues, and engaging with our community through outreach and collaboration. As the digital landscape evolves, so too has our programming, especially in areas like generative Read More

The Catholic University of America Libraries and Department of Information Sciences are excited to announce our Digital Scholarship Workshops designed to equip students, faculty, and staff with the essential skills for modern research. These workshops will cover a range of topics from working in Tableau to building your AI literacy. Whether you are looking to Read More

The Catholic University of America Libraries and Department of Information Sciences are excited to announce our Digital Scholarship Workshops designed to equip students, faculty, and staff with the essential skills for modern research. These workshops will cover a range of topics from starting a digital scholarship project to advanced data visualization techniques. Whether you are Read More

April 23rd is World Book and Copyright Day. Created by the United Nations Educational Scientific, and Cultural Organization or UNESCO, World Book and Copyright Day celebrates the written word, reading, and the publication process. World Book and Copyright Day honors the important role books have played in global history and everyday life. The holiday also Read More

In the realm of modern technology, where data is the new currency, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) stand as the unsung heroes orchestrating a symphony of spatial intelligence. November 15 marks World GIS Day, a celebration that shines a spotlight on the transformative impact of GIS in our interconnected world. Originally conceived by Jack Dangermond, the Read More

Happy Open Access Week! International Open Access Week (October 23-29, 2023) was created by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)  to highlight the benefits of Open Access (OA), share information on OA, and inspire wider participation in OA by the academic and research community. This year’s theme for Open Access Week is Community Read More

Gale Digital Scholar Lab has six analysis tools built into it with Sentiment Analysis being one. Sentiment Analysis is the method of revealing trends or patterns in positive, negative, or neutral sentiment within a collected set of documents.  “Sentiment Analysis uses the AFINN Lexicon to assign a “sentiment score” to each document within a researcher’s Read More