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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Library 'Cats from across space and time have scattered all around the library, and it's up to you to catch them! Uncover library's secrets in this quick adventure! All players get a Library Cat's shirt! Find all of them and you could win a gift card! Did we also mention the free snacks!
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Library 'Cats from across space and time have scattered all around the library, and it's up to you to catch them! Uncover library's secrets in this quick adventure! All players get a Library Cat's shirt! Find all of them and you could win a gift card! Did we also mention the free snacks!
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Copyright is a growing concern among researchers, who may have questions like “When can I use someone else’s copyrighted work?” or “What rights do I have in my own research?” This workshop will cover basic copyright principles, as well as taking a deeper dive into how exceptions to the law like fair use apply in an academic setting. Expect large-group discussion of real-life fair use case studies. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of texts, images, and other copyrighted materials they would like to incorporate into their work for the group to discuss. This workshop is intended for Northwestern University students, staff, and faculty. This workshop will be online via Zoom by Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
As you prepare your dissertation, you may have questions about copyright. Can you use articles you’ve published during your time at Northwestern? What about images and texts by other creators? This workshop will help you understand copyright as it applies to your dissertation, from the basics of copyright ownership to exceptions like fair use. No matter where you are in your program, come to discuss real-life examples – and feel free to bring your own. This workshop is intended for Northwestern University students, staff, and faculty. This workshop will be online via Zoom by Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Online
Text mining is a valuable research tool for the social sciences and the humanities. This workshop will introduce you to large-scale text analysis by exploring contemporary research examples. Then we’ll outline how you can use library resources to build textual data sets and apply text mining techniques. This workshop is geared toward Northwestern students, staff, and faculty. It will be presented via Zoom by Basia Kapolka, Digital Humanities Librarian; and Sarah Thorngate, Data Analysis Librarian.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
This workshop will introduce undergraduates to strategies for completing a literature review. The workshop will include tips and guidance on scoping, developing the research question, choosing databases and searching, organizing materials, and constructing a review. This workshop is geared toward Northwestern undergraduate students, but anyone can attend. It will be presented via Zoom by Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian; and Jason Kruse, Undergraduate Engagement Librarian.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
This session provides participants with the ability to familiarize themselves with Gale Digital Scholar Lab’s three sections—Build, Clean, Analyze. The webinar covers performing search queries with Gale primary source content, curating datasets, using the built-in analysis tools, and reviewing results. Use your Northwestern access credentials to dive into the Lab and run an analysis together with a Gale Trainer. We’ll also show how to import non-Gale text data, and review the Lab’s collaboration tools. This webinar will be led by Anne Nagrant, Gale Trainer. Anne has worked at Gale for 10 years, following a career in historical museums. She graduated from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor where she studied history and anthropology.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, Evanston
In an increasingly complex and fractured information landscape keeping track of your research can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, tools are available to help. In this session we will introduce you to the bibliographic tool EndNote that can help you organize your research materials and save you countless hours in the course of your reading and writing. EndNote can help you gather information from remote databases, organize and sort records and notes, and automatically format citations and bibliographies in a finished paper.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Online
Newspapers, journals, and other published content are a rich source of data for computational text analysis, but researchers can run into technical and licensing challenges accessing this content. TDM Studio enables you to construct and analyze large datasets of content from NUL's digital subscriptions. This workshop will provide an overview of what TDM Studio is and how to get started using it for your research project. You will have the opportunity to create a dataset related to your research topic and to begin analyzing that dataset within TDM Studio. We will use and run sample Jupyter Notebooks, written in Python, to look at word counts and word co-occurrences in your project dataset. No prior coding experience is needed for the workshop.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Online
This workshop will introduce graduate students to strategies for completing a literature review. The workshop will include tips and guidance on developing and refining a research question, choosing databases, advanced searching techniques, using citation management tools for organizing materials, and tips on constructing a review. The content will apply to literature reviews for short papers to articles to dissertations. This workshop will be presented virtually over Zoom by Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian; and Jason Kruse, Undergraduate Engagement Librarian. Register to receive connection information.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, Evanston
In an increasingly complex and fractured information landscape, keeping track of your research can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, tools are available to help. In this session we will introduce you to the bibliographic tool Zotero that can help you organize your research materials and save you countless hours in the course of your reading and writing. Zotero is a freely available citation management software that works through a web browser. Zotero is easy to use and allows you to collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Research is often portrayed as a linear process of discrete parts to be followed in sequential order. In practice, the components of the research process overlap, are interconnected, and repeat. This session will explore the messiness of research and highlight tools, services, and tips to help you navigate the process. Drawing on real-world examples, the presenters will discuss pitfalls and opportunities to help normalize potentially stressful experiences and help you mitigate them.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Constellate is a product from Ithaka Labs that allows users to easily create datasets from JSTOR and other content and then run text analysis on these datasets. This workshop will introduce you to building a constellate dataset and then doing some basic text analysis. No experience necessary!
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
This workshop will give participants across many disciplines a chance to practice literature searching in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s public-facing database. Attendees will first learn how to access PubMed and see a demonstration of an introductory search. The librarian will then put attendees into groups to practice more searches and learn search techniques; the hands-on portion will comprise the majority of the workshop. Participants can ask the librarian for help at any time.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Online
While the research literature grows at an exponential rate, the time available to graduate students to discover, read, and evaluate the importance of literature in one’s field of study remains fixed. Through discussion, mini-lecture, and hand-on activities participants in this workshop will explore strategies to keep current with the literature in their field of study as well as to use their time effectively to accomplish that goal. Strategies discussed include: citation chaining and cited reference searching; pre-print repositories; database & publisher alerts. Social media strategies will be lightly touched upon. Those studying in the social sciences, humanities, the sciences, and technology will be able to incorporate at least one of these strategies into their ongoing practice.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM, Online
In an increasingly complex and fractured information landscape keeping track of your research can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, tools are available to help. In this session we will introduce you to the bibliographic tool EndNote that can help you organize your research materials and save you countless hours in the course of your reading and writing. EndNote can help you gather information from remote databases, organize and sort records and notes, and automatically format citations and bibliographies in a finished paper.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Evanston
This workshop will give participants across many disciplines a chance to practice literature searching in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s public-facing database. Attendees will first learn how to access PubMed and see a demonstration of an introductory search. The librarian will then put attendees into groups to practice more searches and learn search techniques; the hands-on portion will comprise the majority of the workshop. Participants can ask the librarian for help at any time.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Online
This session will introduce you to what evidence synthesis is, steps in the systematic review process, and the support services that Northwestern Libraries provides. Topics covered include different types of reviews, what to do before starting a review, software & tools, and scaling down projects using systematic review techniques. This workshop is geared towards faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and other researchers. This workshop is restricted to Northwestern faculty, students, and staff, please register with your Northwestern email address. This workshop will be presented virtually over Zoom by Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian; and Jason Kruse, Undergraduate Engagement Librarian.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables beginner-to-advanced text analysis on the HathiTrust Digital Library collection. This workshop will focus on the beginner features of the HTRC, including building a workset and running the built-in algorithms.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, Online
In an increasingly complex and fractured information landscape, keeping track of your research can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, tools are available to help. In this session we will introduce you to the bibliographic tool Zotero that can help you organize your research materials and save you countless hours in the course of your reading and writing. Zotero is a freely available citation management software that works through a web browser. Zotero is easy to use and allows you to collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
In an increasingly complex and fractured information landscape, keeping track of your research can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, citation management tools like EndNote and Zotero are available to help. These tools can help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. No registration needed. Drop by any time during these hours for help getting started using EndNote or Zotero, if you're already using the software and need help, or if you're just curious how a citation management tool can work for you!
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Research is often portrayed as a linear process of discrete parts to be followed in sequential order. In practice, the components of the research process overlap, are interconnected, and repeat. This session will explore the messiness of research and highlight tools, services, and tips to help you navigate the process. Drawing on real-world examples, the presenters will discuss pitfalls and opportunities to help normalize potentially stressful experiences and help you mitigate them.