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Research Data Management: Best Practices for organizing and managing your data

January 20, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Why is research data management so important? This workshop will help you plan for organizing and managing your data from the outset of your project. We will look at some basic best practices for: organizing your data cleaning/prepping/working with your data working with multiple data files storage solutions long-term…
Why We March: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

January 21, 2026 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Special Collections Seminar Room (Main Library,1 West)

Join MSU Libraries for a pop-up exhibition to highlight historical marches and commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington. The exhibition showcases a collection of protest posters compiled at the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963. At the original March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his…
Learn QGIS: Making a color shaded map with data in QGIS (Online)

January 21, 2026 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open-source geospatial software—this workshop will demonstrate fundamental GIS skills including how to make a choropleth (color shaded) map, load shape-files and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information and edit features.

Fall 2025 Message from the Dean school Dean's Communication

September 10, 2025

Welcome! I hope the start of the fall semester has been full of opportunity and exploration. The MSU Libraries is thrilled to see our students back, and I wanted to take a moment to share some important updates as we get back into the momentum of the academic year.Fall semester hours. Regular hours following the summer semester resumed…
New exhibit at MSU Libraries celebrates endowment in Early Modern Studies

December 08, 2025

Elise Jajuga

EAST LANSING, Mich., Dec. 2025 – This fall, the Michigan State University Libraries celebrated a recent endowment established by Professor Emerita Jyotsna G. Singh with a reception highlighting a new exhibit curated in part by Singh herself.The exhibit “Europe and Empires of the East — Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals: Encounters and…
WKAR-TV programs from 1950s now available to stream online after MSU digitization project

November 12, 2025

If you tuned into WKAR-TV in the 1950s, you might have caught programs explaining how to pack a healthy lunch or giving you advice on how to talk on the telephone politely.Other shows leaned on the expertise of Michigan State University professors for topics like art and music and gave young people a chance to ask about potential careers…

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