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FALL 2009 SCHEDULE
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DATES AND LOCATION
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Uncover and Discover #1: New Student Tour
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Tue, August 25 at 10am, 11am and 12pm Wed, August 26 at 10am, 11am and 12pm
Location: Main Library, Marshall Gallery, 1st floor |
Uncover and Discover #2: Improving Your Library Research SkillsAre you a new graduate student at the University of Illinois? Need a refresher on how to use the University Library? Learn to think like a librarian in this quick-paced workshop. The information experts will assist you in finding everything from books in the online catalog to locating peer-reviewed full text articles as well as when and how to request materials through our Interlibrary Loan services.
Can't attend? Check out our online support. Lead Instructor: Kelsey Keyes keyes@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Uncover and Discover #3: The Graduate Student Toolkit
Ready to take advantage of your world-class library? The library is an essential partner in your research and teaching at the University of Illinois. Getting started early will help you in saving time down the line. Geared toward graduate students in all disciplines, this library workshop will introduce several time-saving information management tips.
Can't attend? Check out our online guide. Lead Instructor: Jo Kibbee jkibbee@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Uncover and Discover #4: Designing Assignments using Library Resources
Are you a graduate student instructor? New to teaching, or to Illinois? The library can help
you design assignments using library resources. A well-designed assignment is an excellent teaching
tool and can help students develop research skills, critical thinking skills, and subject
knowledge. We'll provide you with several take-home examples.
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Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Drowning in Data? RefWorks can HelpLearn how to use RefWorks, a citation management software program subscribed to by the University Library that is free to faculty, staff, and students of the University of Illinois. This workshop will cover the basics. For more information about RefWorks please visit: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/. We often hear graduate students say that they wish they had implemented a citation management strategy at the beginning of their academic careers - don't let this happen to you!
Do you want to know why RefWorks is better than EndNote? Check out our self-paced video tutorial. Lead Instructor: Jenny Emanuel emanuelj@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Current Awareness: Tools to Stay Current in Your Field
Doing research for your literature review is hard enough without having to remember where and how you located everything. If you set up search alerts to keep track of the essential information and journals in your field, you can have all that information sent directly to your feed reader account. We'll help you set up an account AND add feeds during this hands-on session.
Lead Instructor: Robin Miller mille115@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
InfoHacks: Developing Information Management Skills
Is your academic pile of information overwhelming? Are you looking for new ways to get organized? Learn from the best! Librarians will give you the low-down on how they organize their own research materials using different strategies including several quick tips.
Can't attend? Check out our online guide. Lead Instructor: Silvia Lu lu25@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Citation Chasing: The Graduate Student's Guide to the Lit ReviewAre you sure you found everything for your lit review? This workshop will cover how to find the tough stuff e.g. conference proceedings, dissertations and statistics. Bring your problem citations, we'll sleuth them out! The research that you miss most often is more significant than what you find. Individualized time to find and discuss:
For more detailed help on statistics, please visit: Data Services @ the University Library Lead Instructor: Kathleen Kern katkern@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Responsible Scholarship Practices: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity at IllinoisThis workshop is geared toward the incoming international student who would like to familiarize themselves with the academic standards of doing research at the University of Illinois. Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. We'll introduce you to the Illinois documents that provide guidelines for academic integrity in teaching, research, service, coursework, research and publication, as well as information on intellectual property. We'll explain the difference between unintentional and intentional plagiarism and how to make sure that you cite your research properly.
Check out the University Library support page on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism. Lead Instructor: Emily Love elove@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Research Your Way Past Writer's BlockAre you struggling with your thesis or dissertation? Academic research and writing can be a lonely process. This unique workshop will provide a scholarly community in which to share your research woes, get help from a librarian and your peers, get tips on how to keep your research organized over the course of a lengthy project, and find out where to get further assistance within the library system.
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Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Journal Impact Factors: A Tool to Help Identify Key Research in Your Field
Most frequently used in the sciences, and to some extent in the social sciences, impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" published in a given scholarly journal has been cited. Impact factor (IF) is often used as a measure of the importance of a particular journal to its field. The IF of a journal may be used as an objective measure of the "worth" of your publications when you go up for promotion or tenure. Use this to your advantage when you decide where to publish your research.
Lead Instructor: Katie Newman florador@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
How to Build a Great Poster
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Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Where's the Money? Finding and Securing Grant FundingAre you trying to find grant funding for a fellowship or scholarship? A research project? We can help you find private and federal funding by searching and setting up alerts in Illinois Researcher Information Service, IRIS. We'll also help to increase your chance of success by covering the top ten tips of how to get your funding approved.
Lead Instructors: Kasia Hopkins hopkins5@illinois.edu and Kathie Veach veach@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Understanding Open AccessAre you wondering what the fuss is about open access? The movement for open access to publications - that is, publications that are freely and openly available to anyone to access - has been steadily gaining momentum. With the National Institute of Health's open access policy as well as those at Harvard and MIT, it is important to understand the different forms of open access that are available. Come to this workshop to learn about open access journals as well as self-archiving your work into a repository such as Illinois' IDEALS (http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/).
Lead Instructors: Sarah Shreeves sshreeve@illinois.edu and the University Library Scholarly Communications Committee |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Your Research Rights: Ownership Awareness to Maximize the ImpactYou're going to be published - congratulations! Did you know that you own the copyright on your work until you transfer copyright to a publisher? Did you know you need to retain rights in order to include an article or reuse a chart in your dissertation or thesis or make your work openly available on the web? Come to this session and learn about what your rights as an author are and how to negotiate with publishers for the rights that you need to retain.
Watch our video: IDEALS: How to Deposit Items Lead Instructors: Sarah Shreeves sshreeve@illinois.edu and the University Library Scholarly Communications Committee |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Practical Copyright: Considerations for Teaching and Research
You're writing a thesis or preparing to teach your course, but you have a lot of concerns about being ethical and abiding by copyright law. Come to this session and learn the basics of copyright law and some guidelines for how you can stay within the law using the four principles of Fair Use. Please remember that librarians cannot give you advice regarding copyright issues, but we can steer you in the right direction to find answers to your questions.
Visit the Library's page on Copyright and Scholarly Communication Lead Instructors: Janice Pilch pilch@illinois.edu and the University Library Scholarly Communications Committee |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Using ARTstor in Your Research
ARTstor is an
online database containing nearly one million digital images that can support your research in art,
architecture, the humanities and social sciences. From ancient architecture, to the Mona Lisa, to
contemporary documentary photographs, ARTstor can help you find, view, organize and present images.
This workshop will include hands-on activities to introduce you to ARTstor and how it can be useful
to you in your research.
This workshop is 60 minutes of teaching and 30 minutes of open lab time for you to practice what you've learned. Lead Instructor: Beth Woodard bswoodar@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Using ARTstor in Your TeachingYou know that ARTstor has nearly one million digital images at your fingertips, but how do you share these images with students? How do you design effective presentations using these images? This workshop will give in-depth demonstrations of how to create and share presentations in several different formats using digital images from ARTstor, with ample time for guided practice. By the end of the workshop, you will create a sample presentation and feel comfortable creating presentations on your own.
Please note: If you’d like to save the presentation you create during the workshop, please bring a portable storage device. You may also bring your own laptop to use during the workshop. Lead Instructor: Beth Woodard bswoodar@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
A Library Introduction to GISCurious about how Geographic Information Science (GIS) can enhance your research? Learn about GIS data types like tabular, vector, raster, and geodatabases; and GIS tools such as buffering, overlays, spatial analysis, geocoding, and modeling. GIS is one of the fasting growing research methodologies employed in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Lead Instructor: Karen Hogenboom hogenboo@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Finding and Using Statistics in the Social Sciences
Looking to prove your point? Use official online statistics to support your research. This workshop will explore national and international resources that bring together data supporting researchers in a variety of disciplines. No prior knowledge of statistics or statistical software is required.
Looking for more information on statistics in the social sciences? Lead Instructor: David Griffiths dngriffi@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
4 out of 5 Professors Agree: Citing Polls in Your Papers Will Earn You a Better GradeWould you like to enhance your research papers with data from public opinion polls? Learn to use the famous Roper iPOLL database which contains nearly half a million public opinion survey questions dating from 1935 to 2008. We will focus on examples using election year topics. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
ICPSR: Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary AnalysisThe 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. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
Rock the Data, Rock the Vote: Finding and Using National Election Survey DataThe American National Election Studies (ANES) are a series of national surveys of the American electorate taken in every election year since 1948. This workshop will show you how to create your own tables from the 1948-2004 ANES cumulative file using an online web-based tool. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS.
Lead Instructors: Dawn Owens-Nicholson bluemoon@ad.uiuc.edu and the Data Services Task Force |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based
application that enables users to represent demographic and market research information on a map,
with no programming required! Using SimplyMap's data sets and detailed maps (to the census
block group for some variables), you can develop new insights into the relationships between
consumers, businesses, and their locations.
Lead Instructor: Carissa Holler choller@illinois.edu |
Location: Main Library, Room 314 |
If you have questions regarding the Savvy Researcher Series, please contact Merinda Hensley, Research Support Services, Scholarly Commons
Are you interested in having a librarian visit your class or help with designing assignments that use library resources? We are here to help you teach! Request assistance in designing and testing library assignments, using library resources in the classroom, and creating class-related bibliographies. You can schedule instructional sessions that are designed specifically for your class, covering areas such as library research strategies, critical thinking skills, and information literacy.
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