Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
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Michael Jeffords and Susan Post, authors of "Butterflies of Illinois," will be giving a program about their book at the Champaign Public Library.
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street," will be speaking about his new book at Glad Day Books.
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In this 6-hour course, attendees will begin by exploring the PowerPoint 2016 interface. Next we will create and save a presentation; view and navigate, and edit text on slides; add and modify graphical objects in a presentation; work with tables and charts; and prepare to deliver a presentation.
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts," will be signing books and speaking at Sacramento State University.
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Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen, authors of "Clear it with Sid!: Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service" will give a book talk at the University Club of Chicago.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to adjust a photo’s color and brightness in Lightroom; crop, straighten, and fix perspective, brush over certain parts of a photo for local adjustments; and work with photos on multiple devices. No prior knowledge of Lightroom is required.
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This 7-hour course introduces the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Topics will include design principles, elements, and graphics composition; creating documents containing basic shapes and customized paths. We will also learn how to insert text and typographical characters.
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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 6-hour course, you will import and export data into Excel 2016, work with conditional formatting, and learn about macros. Additional topics will include summarizing data using subtotals and data validation; and analyzing data using Goal Seek and Solver along with what if scenarios. Prerequisite: Completion of Excel 2016 Level 1 or equivalent knowledge
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InDesign is a desktop publishing program by Adobe. In this 6-hour workshop, we start with the basics, we progress to creating multi-column threaded text, formatting type and paragraph styles, working with colors, images, and finish by packaging for distribution.
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Extend your InDesign skills even further by learning to use InDesign's more advanced features effectively. We'll work more deeply with styles. You'll use clipping paths to reveal only part of an image, create type outlines, and create Bezier paths. We'll also import layered files, merge data into documents and create a book with table of contents and references.
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What will 21st century humanities pedagogy look like? How might we strengthen and diversify the humanities and engage and inspire a new generation of learners? This collaborative retreat will begin with a keynote by Ellen McClure, Director of the new Engaged Humanities Initiative (EHI) at UIC. Panels and discussions will follow.
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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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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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The Writers Workshop is now open for Fall 2019. Make an appointment now or drop by our main location in 251 Undergraduate Library for a writing consultation.
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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here You Have to Fight," will be giving a book talk at West Virginia University about her new book.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of An American Classic" will be at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, NC.
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Information and resource fair for undergraduate students in the humanities.
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Richa Nagar, author of Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability will attend the Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, and Hungry Translations at the University of Brasilia, Brasilia.
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The festival opens on Friday, August 30, with the festival's feature length film, La Chana. Saturday, August 31, will be the adjudicated Short Films Competition Program, highlighting sixteen short dance films from a variety of different countries.
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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be speaking and signing books at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium.
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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here You Have to Fight," will be giving a book talk at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium III.