Data + Donuts: Announcing our Spring speakers 🍩
We are so excited to invite you to the 12th season of Data + Donuts! Since Fall 2018, the HKS Library has featured researchers and practitioners speaking about how they use data in their work and on issues of data and society.
This Spring, we are looking forward to hosting three Harvard community members who are each approaching data in a unique way. Find event details and registration below. | | | |
Shira Zilberstein on Machine Learning in Healthcare
Friday, March 29, 2024
10:30-11:30AM ET
Wexner 102 + Zoom
This event is open to all, regardless of Harvard affiliation.
Shira Zilberstein is a sociology PhD candidate who studies the cultural and organizational influences that shape the creation of AI technologies for healthcare. At this event, she’ll speak about the process of creating machine learning models for healthcare, the organizational tensions that influence that process, and that data she uses to examine it. | | | | | |
Jessica Lasky-Fink on Data-Driven Public Service Delivery
Friday, April 19, 2024
10:30-11:30AM ET
Wexner 434 + Zoom
This event is open to all, regardless of Harvard affiliation.
Jessica Lasky-Fink is Research Director at The People Lab, a program of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard. Her research uses insights from behavioral science to improve the delivery of government services and programs, with a focus on the social safety net. At this event, she’ll speak about The People Lab’s innovative approach to public service research through government and community empowerment. | | | | | |
Ceilyn Boyd on the Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom (SAEF) Data Collection
Friday, May 3, 2024
10:30-11:30AM ET
Wexner 434 + Zoom
This event is open to all, regardless of Harvard affiliation.
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard. At this event, she’ll discuss the Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom (SAEF) Data Collection, an open access research dataset representing over 1200 items in Houghton Library’s SAEF Collection. The SAEF Data Collection is Harvard Library’s first major endeavor to represent and significant print collection as data. | | | | | |
Women's History Month: Events and book display 👩🏽💻
March is Women's History Month! The 2024 theme is "Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion," designated by the National Women's History Alliance.
To celebrate, the HKS Library has created a book display that features the stories - both fictionalized and biographical - of women who have advocated for equity along intersectional lines of gender, race, sexuality, and beyond.
Explore the Women's History Month book display online or in the HKS Library.
We'd also love to invite you to two events coming up in celebration of Women's History Month. Details and registration below. | | | |
Stories from HKS Women
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
3:30-5:00PM ET
Library Commons
This event is open to Harvard community members.
Join the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and the HKS Library for a community gathering celebrating Women's History Month. We'll have stories from HKS women on display, plus refreshments and conversation. | | | | | |
Women in Education Research and Data Careers
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
4:30-5:30PM ET
Gutman Library 227 (HGSE)
This event is open to Harvard community members.
Our colleagues at HSGE's Gutman Library are hosting a panel discussion featuring women in education research and data careers. Speakers include Zora Haque, Ph.D. Candidate Culture, Institutions, and Society; Bharti Sharma, Ed.M. candidate Education Policy and Analysis; and Sakshi Khurana, Ed.M.’20, Ph.D. candidate DePaul College of Education. Moderated by Dr. Kenneth Kimura, adjunct faculty researcher and lecturer for HSGE's Gutman Library Leadership Institute of Academic Librarians. | | | | | |
 Image by Alison Pasquariello at IARA. |
IARA's Sports & Racial Justice reading list 🏀
March Madness is upon us, so what better time to reflect on the role of U.S. sports as a contested stage for American patriotism and dissent? On March 19, HKS's Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) hosted a panel discussion on sports and racial equity in the U.S. To complement the event, IARA has curated a list of books (and a podcast) on the intersection of sports, patriotism, and racial justice. Find them all in HOLLIS below! | | | | |
Give HKS Library books a second life 📚
The HKS Library is doing some spring cleaning, retiring unused books to create more study space and to make our space more accessible. Don't worry: all of the retired books are available in other Harvard libraries, haven't been borrowed in at least 5 years, and aren't written by HKS faculty.
That doesn't mean they're not great books, though! And they could have a second life on your shelves. Stop by the HKS Library this spring to take home books from our free book cart! We have even more behind the Library Services Desk. A staff member is happy to help you find books on your topics of interest. Available until they run out. | | | |
New notification & fine system for overdue library tech 🔌
If you’ve wanted to borrow a laptop or phone charger from the HKS Library recently but got turned away, you’re not alone. Our chargers, calculators, and other tech lending items are in high demand! They can also only be checked out for a limited time to ensure equitable access: 1 day for calculators, 3 hours for chargers and other tech items.
This year, there has been a spike in the number of chargers returned long after the checkout period. To increase the number of chargers and other tech items available to students at any given time, the HKS Library is implementing a new notification and fine system. Once you’ve had a charger or other tech item checked out for 24 hours past its due time, you’ll receive an email notifying you that you’ll be billed for the full cost of the item. If you return the item soon after you receive that email, you will not need to pay the fee. This new system does not affect books.
Thank you for helping to keep HKS Library resources available to all members of our community. Please email library_research@hks.harvard.edu with questions or concerns. | | | |
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