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Feb. 27, 2-4pm Celebrate Go Texan Day at Fondren

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Call for Project Proposals for Fondren Fellows Program - Deadline Feb. 20

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Signed: A New Agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Communicating for Publication Workshop Series

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America250@Fondren - Honoring America's 250th Anniversary

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Apply by Feb. 24 for the Paid Fondren Fellows Summer Program

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Library Tours - Every Thursday at 3pm

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New: Personal Whiteboards Available

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Fondren Library Construction Information

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Learn about Overleaf Professional!

Fondren Library Strategic Plan

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Fondren Library Awards for Undergraduate Literary Excellence

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Research Smarter: A Toolkit for the Information Age

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Learn GIS Today - Free GIS Workshops

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Beginner- Adobe Illustrator, Making vectors

Digital Media Commons (DMC) Workshop Web, Graphics and Others

Fri Feb 20, 11am - 12pm

ArcGIS Pro: Mapping Tabular Data and Geocoding

GIS/Data Center (GDC) Short Course Bringing Data Into ArcGIS Series

Fri Feb 20, 1 - 3pm

Literature Reviews with Generative AI

Fondren Library Research

Mon Feb 23, 1 - 2pm

ArcGIS Pro: Finding and Importing Geodata

GIS/Data Center (GDC) Short Course Getting Started with ArcGIS Series

Tue Feb 24, 10am - 12pm

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