Library - Scholarly Commons

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

our campus partners

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    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/6/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tue morning    1/7/2025
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/7/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Tues afternoon    1/7/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Pre-registration is required.

    • 8:30 am    1/8/2025
    • African American Cultural Center

    Are you hosting a Black History Month event? Whether it’s a discussion, performance, or community activity, we want to feature it! We are gathering Black History Month events into one central calendar, so submit your program to https://go.illinois.edu/BHMC2025 by January 8, 2025! Allow us to highlight all the amazing work happening on campus and in the local community!!

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    1/8/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    This 2-hour Outlook Calendar 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.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    1/9/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thur afternoon    1/9/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner. Pre-registration is required.  

    • 10:00 - 10:55 am   F morning    1/10/2025

    We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm    1/12/2025
    • 1 South Canterbury Road, Canterbury, Connecticut

    Dr. Jennifer Rycenga celebrates the launch of Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women at the Prudence Crandall Museum, site of the Canterbury Female Boarding School (1831-1834). Join Dr. Rycenga and museum staff for conversation, book sales & signing, light refreshments, access to the new museum exhibit.

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm    1/13/2025
    • Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/13/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 9:00 am - 4:15 pm   Tuesday    1/14/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.

    • 9:00 - 9:50 am    1/14/2025
    • Armory Building, Room 182

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/14/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm    1/15/2025
    • Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

    • 1:00 - 2:30 pm   Wed afternoon    1/15/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    1/16/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon    1/16/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm    1/17/2025
    • Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Fri morning    1/17/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.

    • 1:00 - 1:55 pm   Fri afternoon    1/17/2025

    Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/20/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 9:00 - 9:50 am    1/21/2025
    • Armory Building, Room 182

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Tues morning    1/21/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking. Pre-registration required.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/21/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon    1/21/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    1/22/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur mornign    1/23/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Thur afternoon    1/23/2025
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.

    • 5:15 pm    1/23/2025
    • 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. Portland, OR 97203

    Christin Hancock, author of “Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis”, will be signing books and speaking at the University of Portland Bookstore in Portland, OR about her new book.

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm    1/24/2025
    • Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/27/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 5:00 pm    1/27/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zisl Sleplovitch and co., Songs from Testimonies

    • 9:00 - 9:50 am    1/28/2025
    • Armory Building, Room 182

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm    1/28/2025
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 1:00 - 4:00 pm    1/28/2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    1/29/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.  

    • 11:30 am - 12:15 pm    1/29/2025

    Learning communities are a powerful way for people to come together to achieve common learning goals. However, fostering conditions that promote an online community for shared learning and knowledge construction can be daunting to even the most experienced facilitators. Please join us as we discuss effective ways to establish and grow productive online learning communities

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    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    1/29/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

    Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    1/30/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.  

    • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm    1/30/2025

    Teaching With AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.

    • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm    1/31/2025
    • Main Library Orange Room, or via Zoom

    • 12:00 pm

    The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.