RESOURCES & SERVICES in Psychology Blog

A new partnership has been formed to provide better data-related services!

The University Library and ATLAS are experimenting with ways to collaborate in providing robust support for faculty and students who are using numeric data sets for research and teaching.

Pilot projects launched in Spring 2008 include Data Services Office Hours (Wednesday 1:30-4:30 pm, 200-D Main Library), where staff from ATLAS and librarians with a wide range of expertise will work together to provide reference and technical consultation to help users identify and use data.

Services offered include: acquiring data sets needed for teaching and research; locating, downloading and preparing data for secondary analysis; identifying and creating course materials and teaching tools (including customized data sets drawn from various data repositories) and consulting about software problems. No appointment necessary!

If the Spring 2008 pilot is successful, these hours and services will be expanded.

MORE INFORMATION: (217) 244-6445 or atlas-consult@uiuc.edu
Web site: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/dataservices.html

Self-help Options:
*Online Tutorials: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/data_tutorials.html

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Allison Sutton
Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist
Education & Social Science Library
asutton@uiuc.edu
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Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis

WHEN: Thursday, April 10th

WHERE: Undergrad Library 291

TIME: 3:30-4:30pm

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search
ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics
program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics
suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be
helpful, but is not necessary.

Register now (preferred, but NOT required)
OR Find out about upcoming and past workshops:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html

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Data Service Office Hours
continue through June 11, 2008

Wednesdays 1:30-4:30 pm
Government Documents Library (2nd floor of the Main Library)

Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.

No Appointment Necessary!
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For more information about using digital survey data sources, see:
Data Services @ The University Library
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/dataservices.html

Jointly sponsored by the University Library and Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS)
Enhance and expand your research, writing, and teaching with data

Greetings Psychology Graduate Students!

The Education and Social Science Library (ESSL) offers many services and resources to assist you with your class work, research and other projects.

I have posted several handy links listed here...

Education and Social Science Library

Education and Social Science Library Hours

Stout Library

Guide to Psychology Resources

Learn to use the Library

Library Workshops

Data Services Help
Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
No Appointment Necessary!

Ask-a-Librarian
(For online chat and IM reference assistance)

Please contact me using the online instruction request form, by phone or via email if you are a TA and would like to schedule a library orientation/database instruction session for your class group. I am also happy to meet with you individually to discuss library services and collections to support your research needs.

The Education & Social Science Library continues to expand our Web and electronic resources to assist you in locating the materials that you need, while still providing trained staff to assist you at our reference desk from 9am until we close on weekdays, and during all open hours on weekends.

I look forward to working with you!

Best regards,

Allison