Library - Scholarly Commons

This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by

our campus partners

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am   Wed morning

    This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status upgrade and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources. Link sent if registered by 11

    • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm   Wed morning

    This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   W afternoon

    This 2 hour Outlook Calendar live workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions. Link sent if registered by 8 am

    • 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Friday, June 9, 2023

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Fri morning

    Join us in a live, online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote. Link sent if registered by 8 am

    • 1:00 - 2:30 pm   Fri afternoon

    This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Monday, June 12, 2023

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

    • All Day
    • 5108 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60641

    Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Portage-Cragin Branch of Chicago Public Library in Chicago, IL about their new book.

    • 9:00 am
    • Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed. morning

    In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm   Wed afternoon

    Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

    • 2:30 - 3:30 pm   Wed afternoon

    Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Friday, June 16, 2023

    • All Day
    • 5108 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60641

    Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Portage-Cragin Branch of Chicago Public Library in Chicago, IL about their new book.

    • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm   Fri. morning
    • 329/330 Armory Building

    This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm   Fri afternoon

    This 1-hour online presentation and demo will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status updates and finish up with Phone settings. Link sent if registered by noon

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Monday, June 19, 2023

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Thursday, June 22, 2023

    • All Day
    • Old Town School of Folk Music 4544 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625

    Join Stephen Wade, author of "The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience," for a series of banjo workshops at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    • Online -OR - In-person at the Main Library, Orange Room

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Thurs. morning

    In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thurs. afternoon

    In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also take a look at email merges using Outlook.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    • Room 182, Armory Building

    Effective feedback is important for student success. In this workshop, we will cover a variety of approaches to providing constructive and efficient feedback in different learning situations. The session will help you identify where students could use feedback in your course, what constitutes good feedback, and ways to encourage students to engage with your comments.

    • 3:15 - 4:15 pm
    • Room 182, Armory Building

    We’ll wrap up the series by thinking about that crucial document that often serves as a student’s first impression of the course: your syllabus. We’ll also consider how to establish course policies that are fair, sensible, and consistent with other aspects of your course design.

Friday, June 23, 2023

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Friday, July 14, 2023

Saturday, July 15, 2023

    • All Day
    • Warren Harding Museum and Library -- 380 Mt Vernon Ave, Marion, OH 43302

    Cara Finnegan, author of "Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital", will be signing books and speaking at this year's Warren G. Harding Symposium about her new book.

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Saturday, September 9, 2023

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Friday, October 13, 2023