Library - Scholarly Commons
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10am to 11am on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, educational tech on campus, and anything else of interest!
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Visit the TechHub during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12pm - 3pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free! Please wear a mask and note that only 3 visitors are allowed in the space at a time.
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Visit the TechHub during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12pm - 3pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free! Please wear a mask and note that only 3 visitors are allowed in the space at a time.
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In this 2-hour online 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 using layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator.
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Join us for a performance and panel discussion as we celebrate the public release of Sentinels of Silence? Whale Watching, Noise, and the Orca. All registered attendees will receive a link to view the documentary in advance of the event.
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This talk will briefly introduce the HathiTrust Research Center's text and data mining tools, which allow researchers to computationally analyze the millions of volumes of text held in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
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Connect online and share your ideas at this fun and informal Happy Hour hosted by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning. Fast-paced forum features topics of interest to Graduate Instructors and Teaching Assistants.
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In this 2-hour online course learn how to create and work with Access forms. Create a new form using the form wizard and explore layout and design view. Add and modify form controls including a calculated control and lookup control.
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More than multiple choice - learn how to use other question types to build more effective tests.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in a 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.
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The global success and recognition of BTS, a seven-member South Korean music group, demonstrates that their artistry and message has captured the attention of millions.
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The Contemporary Conversations program series instigates conversations around contemporary cultural issues, themes, and ideas. The Spurlock Museum is hosting a conversation to connect with the exhibit Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism.
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Join two faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as they discuss collaborative, reciprocal, and redistributive models of research. This session will help prospective grant applicants plan for the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seed grant CFP and HWW project CFP, both of which will be issued in March 2021.
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Enjoy a free weekly yoga practice, presented online by Krannert Art Museum and taught by Jodi Adams, certified yoga instructor, and Ayurveda specialist.
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Join Bennetta Jules-Rosetta at 1:30 pm PST on November 6th for Session 1 of the virtual two-part African Art Reframed Workshop as part of the UCSD/Mesa College PATH Program in San Diego!
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This interactive session will provide tools to create a virtual or in-person classroom that is conducive to accessibility and inclusivity. This session will delve into strategies and perspectives to create the right conditions to make your course a learning community and welcoming environment.
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In this presentation, Karolina Ozog will discuss how sound is being utilized in the development of the memorial site. She will explain how and why visitors to Plaszow will be invited to listen to auditory components that include historical music as well as ambient sounds related to the physical attributes of the site.
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Photoshop Level 2 workshop builds on techniques learned in Level 1. This 6-hour course covers:brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images; vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects; advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book. If interested, please send Professor Cyra Akila Choudhury an e-mail and she will add you to the mailing list.
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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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Join the AACC for an afternoon of discussion on the 2020 presidential elections.
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Join us for the University of Illinois Archives’ monthly Women in Science Lecture. Dr. Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, will join us to discuss her work in molecular and cellular biology, her role as the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and the importance of preserving stories about scientists.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in tables in Excel 2016. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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Join archaeologist Kamil Karski and historian Karlina Ozog as they uncover 70 year old stories from the Jewish prisoners and work to commemorate the atrocities that happened at the Plaszow concentration camp.
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Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research) presents "Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series.
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Illinois faculty are invited to share the challenges they’ve experienced both in the classroom and with remote learning this term, and their recommendations for making the Spring 2021 term a success. Feel free to drop in anytime during the session to share your thoughts.
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Sometimes you have five students; sometimes you have five hundred. Either way, instructors often want them to participate in the same kinds of activities, from having a discussion to studying for exams. This hands-on workshop introduces a variety of digital collaboration tools that TAs and instructors can use for reviewing, practicing, and clarifying course concepts.
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This 2-hour online class introduces the Access query object. Topics include working in design view; creating a simple query by adding and removing fields and adding criterion. We will create multi-table queries; calculated fields and set field properties; explore a totals query, parameter query, and action queries.
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In this 2-hour online 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 method. Register by noon to have link sent.
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In this session, you will learn what to do – and what NOT to do – to create a successful testing experience that consistently works.
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Join us for an introduction to topic modeling, an algorithm-based method for identifying clusters of words that appear together in a corpora of text. As we explore sample data sets, including the letters of Alexander Hamilton, we’ll discuss ways to tailor this method to your research interests and teaching.
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This presentation will examine the relationship between the globalization of South Korean popular culture and its transnational distribution and consumption in the West. This event is part of the 2020 Global Korea series on the globalization and impact of South Korean popular culture.
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This talk investigates how "access" operates within theatre institutions to obscure the very barriers it would seem to address.
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Please join us for the University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium panel "Getting it Written" on Thursday, November 12 at 4pm CT.
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The Sudden Sound concert will feature saxophonist Sam Newsome and curator Jason Finkelman for a performance and discussion around the field of improvised music and the jazz avant-garde.
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Please join us for a virtual University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium during this year's University Press Week. Panels will include "Getting it Written" and "Getting it Published" and feature practical tips for navigating the publication process from completing a manuscript to finding a publisher.
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The Center for Children's Books will host its 2020 Gryphon Lecture on Thursday, November 12 at 4:30 pm. Associate Professor Sarah Park Dahlen of St. Catherine University will speak about the travel writer and journalist Frances Carpenter and her influence on Asian American Youth Literature.
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Please join us for the University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium panel "Getting it Published" on November 12 at 5:10pm CT.
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Enjoy a free weekly yoga practice, presented online by Krannert Art Museum and taught by Jodi Adams, certified yoga instructor, and Ayurveda specialist.
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Join Bennetta Jules-Rosetta at 1:30 pm PST on November 13th for Session 2 of the virtual two-part African Art Reframed Workshop as part of the UCSD/Mesa College PATH Program in San Diego!
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Join us in a one-hour online session to learn about the basic features of Zoom. This session is aimed for first time or beginner users.
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Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents "Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes" online with Chicago History Museum.
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In this discussion moderated by Prof. MyoungSun Song (EALC), Tiger JK will share his thoughts on the travel of hip hop from America to Korea, hip hop as a global culture and art form, the transnational power of Korean popular culture.
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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 Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word 2016 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.
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Join Danielle Fuentes Morgan and W. Kamau Bell for a virtual event celebrating the release of Morgan's new book "Laughing to Keep From Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century" on November 18, at 4pm PST.
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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.
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In this 2-hour online class, learn how to create a basic Access report, and explore layout and design view. In design view add controls and set properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply sort & group feature to report data, finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).
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One of the gems of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the Ordo ad consecrandum et coronandum regem et reginam Franciae or the Coronation Book of Queen Jeanne d’Evreux, a resplendently illuminated 14th century French manuscript chronicling the coronation of the last Capetian queen in word and image.
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Let's meet online to talk about Illustrator. In this two-hour live session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then work through a tutorial together to create our own vector graphic logo.
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Celebrating the opening of Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory with the artist and other special guests.
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Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes online with Chicago History Museum.
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Join Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez for a conversation with contributors Ruben Zecena, Fadi Saleh, Myisha Arellanus, and Sasha Wijeyeratne to celebrate the release of Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. Books can be purchased from BookWoman bookstore here: https://www.ebookwoman.com/book/9780252085239
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Enjoy a free weekly yoga practice, presented online by Krannert Art Museum and taught by Jodi Adams, certified yoga instructor, and Ayurveda specialist.
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In this new 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Excel 2016. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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This two-hour online session will introduce you to Microsoft's relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
