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University Library and WCAS co-sponsor a training event for graduate students
Northwestern University Library and the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences have, since 2002, co-sponsored a program to train all incoming doctoral students in humanities disciplines; in 2004, the program was expanded to include both the humanities and the social sciences. This year's event, loosely called Humanities & Social Sciences Computing/Introduction to Electronic Resources Event, was held on September 20 and 21. On the 20th, a lecture on EndNote bibliographic software was presented to close to 120 graduate students. This was followed by a Faculty Forum, in which faculty presented digitally-driven works of original scholarship to the group. On the 21st, the students spent a full day in University Library, where they had the opportunity to choose from 15 interdisciplinary training sessions, each taught by a librarian (or, in one case, a representative from Academic Technologies) and a faculty partner. During the lunch break, a panel of upper-level graduate students presented their own original work with digital resources, as a testament to the enormous power of technology for changing the nature of the intellectual inquiry.
The events overall were orchestrated by Ruth Reingold, Assistant Dean for Computing Technology, representing WCAS; and Harriet Lightman, Bibliographer, representing the Library. Other members of the planning committee were Stacia Kozlowski, WCAS Special Events Coordinator; Jeeyuhn Yoon Kang, Office Superviser, Collection Management Office; and Kavitha Sivashanker, student assistant. WCAS and the University Library community look forward to the Fourth Annual Training Event, scheduled for 2005. More information on the 2004 event, including the titles of training sessions and the names of the instructors, can be found at: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/collections/sept2004/index.html
--Harriet Lightman