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    Up your library game with Workshops

    by Erin Sanderman September 18, 2020
    written by Erin Sanderman

    We get it. Navigating the intricacies of the library isn’t easy. Finding information and making use of the library’s resources is a skill that takes time to develop, but we’re here to help support you on your academic journey.

    On top of general assistance you can access through chat and email reference, and foundational library skill tutorials that you can access online at your leisure, the Library offers workshops throughout the school year. Normally, these workshops are held in-person, but given the current health crisis, like most of our other services we’ve taken them online into the virtual sphere. Taught by our intrepid team of librarian experts and information specialists we offer workshops on such diverse topics as predatory publishing, using specific databases, systematic review searching; and that’s just to name a few. Why in the coming weeks there are several opportunities to try workshops exploring some of our music and drama resources.

    If you found our news blog you’re almost there.

    Where can you find and sign-up for some of these workshops? The easiest way is to scroll down half-way on the library’s homepage. On the left-hand side there’s a block that says workshops with a list of some of our upcoming offerings. Click on the yellow arrow on the Workshop header to see more. Once there you can start the registration process for any workshop you are interested in. Oh, and by the way, did I mention that workshops are 100% free for all students, staff and faculty of the University? There’s literally nothing to lose and a whole lot of knowledge to gain.

    Also, we absolutely must give a shout out to our colleagues at the Digital Scholarship Centre who will also be offering virtual workshops, including a trio of workshops that are a part of the Wikipedia Speaker Series.

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  • Stitching the Curve: An Update

    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020

    It has now been well over five months since a group of us University of Alberta Library staff began a data physicalization project to stitch Covid-19 data in Canada. It’s a project that we called “Stitching the Curve”. This is a little update on this data physicalization project’s progress.  To quickly recap the project, members of our team have all selected provinces to either knit or crochet. Our colleague and fellow knitter,…

  • Cree Syllabics Project

    by wpadmin June 25, 2020
    by wpadmin June 25, 2020

    By Kaia MacLeod My name is Kaia and I’m a member of the James Smith Cree Nation. When I tell people that I work as an Indigenous Intern at University of Alberta Library, not a lot of people know exactly what that means. Here is a little crash course of what my job is: I get to work on the desk in the library and work on several Indigenous themed projects. During…

  • Physical Computing

    by wpadmin June 8, 2020
    by wpadmin June 8, 2020

    By Abbie Schenk Imagine a programming workshop: students sitting behind monitors and laptops, quietly  typing line after line of code to make their computers spit out words, solve math problems, and manipulate pixels on those same screens. Their education is almost entirely contained to the virtual realm.  But a different form of computer science education has emerged in the last few years: physical computing. “A recent growth area in computer science education…

  • Data Physicalization

    by Library Webmaster May 13, 2020
    by Library Webmaster May 13, 2020

    Written By Abbie Schenk When we think of data visualizations, we often think of charts, maps and other forms of expressing data in digital ways. But humans have visualized data for thousands of years, long before computer screens were invented. Some of the earliest data visualizations go back to 5500 BC when Mesopotamians used clay tokens to visualize data. Today, representing data in a physical manner is called data physicalization. The Digital…

  • Stitching the Curve: A UAlberta Library Data-driven Making Project

    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020

    University of Alberta Library staff share a great passion for information and we are always looking for new ways we can engage with it and make it more approachable for ourselves and our community. In March, when the COVID-19 crisis brought a sudden change to all our lives, some library staff with yarncraft inclinations had an idea to start a unique making project. The “Stitching the Curve” project seeks to capture the…

  • Learning in the DSC: Workshops for Everyone!

    by Hanne Pearce February 18, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce February 18, 2020

    The Libraries Digital Scholarship Centre, which opened in August of 2019, has now been open for about six months. This winter term, DSC staff are excited to finally be offering a full calendar of workshops that are free to all members of the University community.  The workshops have been organized into several “series” or streams of learning. Digital Scholarship 101 is a series designed to expose participants to different aspects of scholarly…

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