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Productive Scholar: John LeMasney on Using Inkscape

Posted on September 30, 2011 by John LeMasney

Thursday, September 22, 12:00 noon Frist Multipurpose Room A Using Inkscape John LeMasney Inkscape is an open source drawing application used generally as a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Visual learners benefit greatly from the presence of illustrations of concepts, … Continue reading →

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Lunch & Learn: The Cairo Geniza: Ancient Papers in the Digital Age with Mark Cohen

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Jon Edwards

The Cairo Geniza is a collection of an estimated 750,000 manuscript pages found discarded for “burial” in the Geniza chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo in the late 19th century. In addition to holding religious poems and fragments … Continue reading →

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