Library - Scholarly Commons
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic", will be giving a book talk at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC about his new book.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will be give a book talk at the AHA Conference.
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This two-hour short course will introduce you to Microsoft's latest version of its relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports and spend some time working in the most important of all the objects--tables.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Take this short course and learn the basics, including how to use the new 2016 interface to create slides and put content on them; format and custom design the slides; and prepare speaker notes and handouts.
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In this 3 hour course, participants will learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages to images.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of An American Classic," will be at Banjothon in Knoxville, TN.
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Andrew Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts", will be giving a book talk at the LGBTQ Center in San Diego, CA about his new book.
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Andrew Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street", will be giving a book talk at the San Diego History Center's Thornton Theater about his new book.
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In this 2-hour 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.
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In this three-hour workshop attendees will learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and also from scratch. We will create a primary key and start entering data. Finally, we will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties and finally lookup fields and calculated fields.
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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to comfortably move around in the Excel 2016 environment. Additional topics will include entering text and values in a worksheet, basic formatting, printing and using Help.
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George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be hosting a dinner and giving a book talk at Temple Beth Israel.
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This program provides employees at the University of Illinois an overview of software applications and IT practices that are critical to success within the campus environment. All sessions are led by experienced trainers with handouts available. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the monthly scheduled sessions. All sessions held in Suite 26 Illini Hall.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at University of California Irvine.
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A campus-wide Town Hall presentation/discussion of the conceptual plan for adapting the Undergraduate Library as a Special Collections Research Center.
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Disruptive student behaviors can present serious challenges to a positive learning environment. These challenging situations can occur in both face-to-face and online learning contexts. In this workshop you will learn effective strategies to deal with challenging situations and maintain the focus of your classroom on productive learning.
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In this 2-hour workshop participants will learn how to use Photoshop to do basic photo correction, use selection tools, manipulate, save, and store images. No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required.
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Learn more about this fellowship opportunity and the application process.
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Attendees will learn how to schedule and edit an appointment; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule meetings with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings for Skype for Business. We will work with additional calendars, calendar groups, and calendar permissions.
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Devon Powers, author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future", will give a book talk at the University of Ottawa.
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Divine Madness draws on both ancient and modern texts to examine geographic, historic, and philosophical intersections between the items featured. This exhibit is a collaborative exploration of the inner and outer lives of people as reflected in the expansive collections at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Film screening and discussion hosted by the Program in Jewish Culture Advisory Council member Scott Gendell.
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Liliya Gazizova is a Russian poet of Tatar origin and one of the most noted authors of her generation.
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In this 3 hour course, we will go beyond how the program works to include organizational strategies and tips to hyperlink to other notebooks and files, integrating with the rest of MS Office including linking to Outlook with Tasks to add reminders, Meeting notes that integrate with Skype for Business and other meetings, and other tips to boost the power of OneNote.
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Amina, the first magazine for black women in France, promoted women's education and entrepreneurship especially in the urbanized "Black Beauty" industry.
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We don't usually get to choose our classrooms; instead we have to grow where we're planted. This workshop will help new and experienced teachers develop a set of strategies that will help make the best use of whatever type of classroom they’re assigned to.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open Illustrator documents, navigate the user interface, use vector shapes to create a logo that looks good on screen and in print. No prior knowledge of Illustrator is required.
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Learn more about participating in the Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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The informational session and materials will cover NEH programs, with an emphasis on the fellowship.
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Having trouble connecting with your students? This workshop might be for you! Learn how to build long lasting rapport with your students.
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Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal. Conversation with Hive curators Amy L. Powell and Clara Bosak-Schroeder to follow.
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Celebrate opening night for KAM's newest exhibition HIVE, a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
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Examining the effect media messages have on race and perception.