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JL MC 3460: Public Affairs Reporting

Course Description

JL MC 3460: Reporting and writing about government, business, and other institutions; identification of and access to public records; investigative reporting techniques; developing major stories about government and nonprofit organizations; and ethical issues.

Professor: Gary Sawyer
Email: gwsawyer@iastate.edu
Phone: 1-515-294-1260

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Library Workshops - Spring 2025

See The Library Events Calendar For a More Up-To-Date List.

January 29: Wed, 12:00pm -1:00pm Introduction to Citation Management Tools (Online)
January 30: Thu, 3:40pm-4:55pm Market Research 101 (In Person)
February 6: Thu, 3:00pm-4:30pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 7: Fri, 2:30pm-4:00pm Grad Students: Everything You Need to Know About The Library But Were Afraid to Ask (In Person)
February 12: Wed, 11:00am-11:50am Data Viz 101: Effective Design (In Person)
February 13: Thu, 11:00am-12:15pm Data Viz Glow Up: Pick a Chart Type (In Person)
*February 14: Fri, 1:00pm-2:00pm Love Data Week Celebration (In Person - Not a Workshop)
February 18: Tue, 1:00pm-2:30pm Making LaTex PDFs Accessible in Adobe Acrobat PC Pro (In Person)
February 18: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps (in Person)
February 19: Wed, 1:00pm-3:00pm Unix Command Line Fundamentals (In Person)
February 24: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
February 25: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Starting a Digital Humanities Project (In Person)
February 26: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Git Basics For Absolute Beginners (in Person)
February 27: Thu, 12:00pm-1:30pm Unpacking (Cy)Box For Better File Management (Online)
March 3: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 2 of 2: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++ (In Person)
March 4: Tue, 2:10pm-3:25pm Teaching With Twine (In Person)
March 5: Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm Unix and Git Basics Follow up (In Person)
March 13: Thu, 2:10pm-3:25pm Getting Started With LaTex and Overleaf (In Person)
March 27: Thu, 11:00am-11:50am Introduction to DataShare and the ISU Digital Repository (Online)
April 7: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)
April 14: Mon, 1:00pm-5:00pm Part 1 of 2: Generative AI With Diffusion Models (In Person)

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Contact:
150 Parks Library
Iowa State University
515-294-4681

The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.