Listening opportunites on campus

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Monday, February 26, 2024

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    Are you having trouble organizing all of your sources but don’t know where to start? A citation manager can help you store your files, create citations, and insert formatted citations into papers.

    • 10:00 - 10:30 am
    • Beckman Institute Center Atrium

    Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

    • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
    • Main Library 314

    Learn how to use EndNote, a citation management software program, to keep track and organize citations and cite while you write your papers.

    • 2:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, SCIM, Room 052

    In our everyday experience, sounds come from all around us; however, recorded sound has been traditionally limited to two speakers. New processing hardware and software algorithms allow us to work with sound in three dimensions!

    • 6:00 pm

    Join us on Tuesday, Feb 27, for an interactive Fair Use Gameshow to celebrate Fair Use Week! Your host, Sara Benson (U of I) will be joined by an all-star panel including Kyle Courtney (Harvard), Sandra Enimil (Yale), and Pia Hunter (U of I Law).

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

    • 11:00 - 11:50 am
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    New to the university? Need a refresher on using the library? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to library resources and services. After this workshop, you’ll be able to navigate the library website with confidence to access print and electronic materials. Come with questions if you have them!

    • 12:00 pm
    • Beckman Institute Room 2269 (2nd floor tower room)

    Beckman Interdisciplinary Safety Seminar lecture series speaker will be Dr. Karin Jensen, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, the University of Michigan. Jensen will present a lecture titled "Changing the Narrative: Fostering a Culture of Well-being in Academia."

    • 12:00 pm
    • Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

    • 2:00 - 2:50 pm
    • Main Library 220 and online via Zoom (link will be sent in registration and confirmation emails)

    The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center, co-located here at UIUC and at Indiana University, is the research gateway to that enormous, near-universal library.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Friday, March 1, 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

    • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
    • Main Library 220 and online via Zoom (link will be sent with registration and confirmation emails)

    Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the way that we write and research. But how can we use it ethically and effectively for social science and digital humanities projects? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore ways to use AI to clean your data, generate code, and analyze information.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • 1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL

    • 12:00 pm
    • Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best?

  • Event information
    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    • 3rd floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois, Urbana

    Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts and the Bangladeshi Ladies Club presents Nakshi Kantha Workshop and Dhamail Dance! A Celebration of Creativity and Rhythm Wednesday, March 6, 4 pm - 6 pm 3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois, Urbana

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Friday, March 8, 2024

Monday, March 11, 2024

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

    • 12:00 pm
    • Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Monday, March 18, 2024

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

    • 10:00 - 10:30 am
    • Beckman Institute Center Atrium

    Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am
    • Main Library 314

    The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) holds an extensive collection of primary source material, including 500,000 volumes and 5,000 linear sq. ft. of archival material. This workshop will explore the various ways in which patrons can engage with the RBML’s collection, including individual research, classroom instruction, and opportunities for collaboration.

    • 11:00 - 11:50 am
    • Grainger Engineering Library, Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235

    Have you ever had an idea but didn’t have the tools to carry it out? The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center IDEA lab has a variety of technology and tools available to all students at the university.

    • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
    • Main Library 220 and online via Zoom (link will be sent with registration and confirmation emails)

    You've asked an AI generator to create a cat portrait in the style of Picasso, now what? Although sampling the work of others has been a natural part of image creation since humans have communicated through art, new AI tools have complicated that conversation.

    • 1:00 - 2:15 pm
    • Illini Bookstore Building, Room 514

    Join us to learn more about how to manage your data! This workshop will cover file naming conventions, documenting your processes, baking up data, and sharing data. Prioritizing and implementing our best practices will ensure you can find things when you need them.

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data. It is recommended (but not required) that you have a REDCap account prior to attending the workshop. No prior REDCap experience is necessary.

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    • ARC Wellbeing Lounge

    • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
    • Ikenberry Commons, Main Lobby

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Thursday, March 21, 2024

    • 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.Web of Science is the widest-scoping, multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for full-text articles, books, and conference proceedings. This session provides insight and strategies for getting the most use out of the platform. We will highlight how to search for literature and authors, as well as where to find citation tracking data and grant information. Additional features and strategies covered include: the advanced search builder, refining and managing search results, analyzing citations, and unpacking item records.

    Web of Science is the widest-scoping, multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for full-text articles, books, and conference proceedings. This session provides insight and strategies for getting the most use out of the platform.

    • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    • Illini Union, Room 103

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • Main Library 314

    This hands-on workshop will teach you how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers, and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We’ll cover MS Word and PowerPoint, Google Docs, and PDFs, as well as general best practices for accessibility that you can incorporate across formats.

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    • 3:00 pm
    • Atrium

    Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

    • 3:00 - 3:50 pm
    • Grainger Engineering Library, Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235

    This session introduces the podcasting equipment and technology available to our campus community from the libraries. In addition to familiarizing ourselves with the equipment for recording, we will cover some beginning recording and audio editing techniques, particularly within the software Audacity.

  • Current Affairs Forum
    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
    • 319 Gregory Hall (810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)

    • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    • Women's Resource Center, 616 East Green Street, Suite 202

    • 6:00 - 6:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. This event is co-sponsored by Teaching, Learning, and Academic Support, the Writers Workshop, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.

    Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation. This event is co-sponsored by Teaching, Learning, and Academic Support, the Writers Workshop, and the Office of Und

Friday, March 22, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Friday, March 29, 2024

Saturday, March 30, 2024