Library Calendar

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    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.

    • 2:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, SCIM, Room 052

    Learn about techniques for extending your video productions beyond the physical studio! In this workshop, we will utilize the HTC Vive tracking system at SCIM to bring live cameras into Unreal Engine for real time green screen compositing with a 3D environment instead of the more traditional 2D image/video.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm
    • Main Library 314

    Are you preparing for an upcoming conference? Need to design a poster for your class? This workshop will give you tools for communicating your research for academic conferences and professional meetings in a concise and visually effective poster presentation.

    • 2:00 - 2:50 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    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.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am
    • Grainger Engineering Library, Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235

    Learn how to conduct an effective literature search using the database PubMed, a free database home to millions of citations for biomedical literature. Practice some basic search skills, like using boolean operators and applying filters, and learn some new techniques and tips for navigating PubMed and finding and saving relevant publications.

    • 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
    • This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

    Web of Science is the widest-scoping, multidisciplinary platform of abstract databases for full-text articles, books, and conference proceedings.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

    Join the Illinois Newspaper Project and the Student Life and Culture Archives to learn about the history of U of I student newspaper, the Daily Illini, and the Library’s efforts to preserve and make it digitally accessible. Explore past events on campus and discover how digitized newspapers have changed research.

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    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    • Main Library Room 106

    Attention Students: Brighten your living space for spring! Join houseplant enthusiasts to learn over sparkling water and cookies how to pot a plant using sustainable practices! Free! Registration required.

Friday, March 29, 2024

    • 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
    • Illini Bookstore Building, Room 514

    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!

Saturday, March 30, 2024