Library Calendar
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Join us in the Orange Room of the Main Library on Monday, 10/2 from 11 am - 1pm in honor of Banned Books Week 2023. Craft your own blackout poetry, make a fruit-scented scratch-and-sniff bookmark, pick up free resources on book bans, and browse a selection of oft-banned books available for checkout. We hope to see you there, and "Let Freedom Read!"
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Personal knowledge management (PKM) software programs are tools that you can use for organizing and exploring many types of information. In this new workshop, we’ll explore the use of a free PKM program (Logseq) that can be set up to facilitate qualitative analysis of text data.
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This session will give you insight and strategies for getting the most out of Scopus; the largest interdisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature including journals, books, and conference proceedings, particularly in the sciences.
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Curious to explore the relationship between people, places, institutions and how they change over time? Join us for a gentle introduction to network analysis.
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The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. This talk will briefly introduce the 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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Dr. Donna J. Cox, Michael Aiken Chair Emerita and Professor Emerita of Art & Design, will share her career as the Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and her research on scientific visualizations
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Please join us as for this special evening with U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Part conversation and part poetry reading, the event follows Limón as she shares with us how poetry connects us to the world, allows us to heal, to love, to grieve, and reminds us of the full spectrum of human emotion.
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Join us via Zoom to delve into the captivating world of witches, demons, and women’s history through a spellbinding lecture and a rare glimpse into the past, as we explore the origins, powers, and misunderstood narratives surrounding these topics.
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In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how AI can help you brainstorm topics, craft titles and abstracts, create outlines, and copyedit.
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Learn how to use EndNote, a citation management software program, to keep track and organize citations and cite while you write your papers.
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This Illinois REDCap workshop will focus on advanced ways Illinois REDCap can be used to collect research data, including how to build or edit projects with a Data Dictionary, collecting data with repeatable instruments, and collecting longitudinal data with defined events.
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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.
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Location, location, location! Explore how digital mapping tools can help visualize the intricate (and often surprising) relationship between places, people, and events. We’ll discuss basic principles for designing your own research project while playing with beginner-friendly tools. No prior experience with code needed!
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In this workshop, you will learn about the role and the non-role of the reviewer in the peer review process in contrast to the roles of authors and editors, and we will discuss concepts such as bias and reviewer agreement.
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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? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression? In this session
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This workshop will be an introduction to the qualitative data analysis software Quirkos. This workshop is provided by Quirkos founder Daniel Turner, and will provide attendees with a basic introduction to this tool for data analysis.
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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!
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In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own. We cover promoting and marketing podcasts through social media and other ways to get word out!
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Attention students: Join us in room 220 of the Main Library on Thursday, 10/19 from 3-4:30 pm for a FREE “Paint & Sip” workshop!* Sip on an art-inspired mocktail while you learn about the soothing art of watercolors through an artist-led tutorial on how to paint your very own orange-and-blue bird for fall. All experience levels welcome!
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Operation (the game); New techniques in art and dance; Early computer programs similar to social media; Pig genome mapping; Aerosol whip cream; Explore these innovations and more across campus using the Illinois Distributed Museum website: https://distributedmuseum.illinois.edu/ You will find a location across campus related to each innovation.
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Enjoy a free concert featuring the Music & Performing Arts Library’s Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano and learn more about the instrument and roll collection.
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Start your Homecoming celebration with a special performance in the University Library’s historic Reading Room. Join Archivist and Sousa Archives and Center for American Music Director Scott Schwartz as he and three School of Music students perform on three of the Center’s rare music instruments and discuss the importance of returning their voices.
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In this workshop, we will work towards an understanding of MAXQDA capabilities and explore how this tool can be used in your research plan.
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Adobe InDesign is a layout and design software program that allows you to create print and digital media. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which is available to all UIUC students for free! This workshop is designed for those with little to no experience with InDesign to help you learn the basics of using this document design program.
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This workshop will discuss types of bias in the peer review process such as gender, race, nationality, prestige, and reputation of authors, and share some recommendations to deal with reviewers and their biases.
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For anyone interested in using R for qualitative or liberal arts research, this workshop will show you how to get started in R with absolutely no coding experience necessary.
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Join us on Halloween, 10/31, in room 66 of the Main Library from 7-9 pm for a screening of the acclaimed zombie thriller, Train to Busan (2016).
