Welcome to SU Libraries' Learn at SUL! Workshop Series. Please take a look at our offerings and register to attend one or more.
Saving, Organizing, and Citing Your Sources and Collaborating with Zotero, Led by Winn Wasson
Description: This introduction will provide an overview of Zotero, a free platform that allows students and researchers to save and annotate sources, collaborate with classmates and colleagues, generate citations and bibliographies in papers, and access references from anywhere. Students and researchers of all experience levels are encouraged to attend and ask questions.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff
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"Where Do I Start?" Researching for Beginners, Narrowing your Topic, Finding Resources, etc., Led by Giovanna Colosi
Description: You are new to researching and not sure where to begin? How do I know where to find sources? Where are reputable sources? Don't fret, come to this beginner's workshop to have all your questions answered!
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Digital Humanities Workshop: Introduction to Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, Led by Patrick Williams and Rachel Hogan
Description: Patrick Williams (Humanities Librarian and Lead Librarian for Digital and Open Scholarship) and Rachel Hogan (Masters Student in Library and Information Science and Information Literacy Scholar) will present an Introduction to Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, a hands-on workshop. Rachel and Patrick will present an overview of text mining & HathiTrust in general and will focus on the ways we can make use of the HathiTrust Research Center to undertake our own experiments. No programming experience is necessary. Participants will learn to create their own research collections and perform text analysis activities like creating token counts and tag clouds, extracting and visualizing named entities, and exploring topic modeling approaches.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff
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Technical Writing, Led by Juan Denzer and Abdulrahman Alzahrani
Description: Introduce three main types of technical writing: traditional, end-user, and technical marketing content. Attendees will learn some of the key attributes that can be applied to all styles of technical writing. The session will also cover some useful writing tools along with some examples of technical writing.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Staff
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Can I use the Library after I Graduate? Library Resources for SU Alumni, Led by John Stawarz
Description: Congratulations on your upcoming graduation from Syracuse University! After you graduate, you will have access to many, but not all, of the library resources that you've used and enjoyed. This workshop will highlight the services and resources at SU Libraries that will be available to you as an alum, as well as guide you to free resources beyond SU Libraries that you could also access, such as ebooks, audiobooks, and journal articles.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Students Almost Graduating
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The Misappropriation and Misrepresentation of Research: Strategies for Facing a Growing and Problematic Trend, Led by Winn Wasson
Description: The good news is that your research got published. The bad news is that a group you have never heard of is now misappropriating or misrepresenting it to push an agenda that neither you nor your actual research conclusions support. This workshop provides strategies to prepare current and budding researchers to face this growing problem in how scholarship is portrayed outside of academia. Dinner will be provided.
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date and Time:
April 18, 2022 5:00pm – 6:20pm EST Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor -Bird Library (Room 114) Please email grcolosi@syr.edu with any questions.
Sponsored by the GSO and the Syracuse University Libraries
Register here!
Graduate Roundtable Series: ACT UP Workshop: Incorporate a social justice perspective into your research processes
Presented by: Kelly Delevan, Information Literacy Librarian
Sponsored by: The GSO and SUL
Dinner will be provided to participants
Description: The ACT UP method was created in 2018 to provide students with a way to incorporate a social justice perspective into their research processes. It acknowledges that information systems and sources are often privileged towards dominant groups. This method enables users to critically examine sources' privilege and to shift the research paradigm to make room for other voices. "Research in its purest form is an act of resistance." - Dawn Stahura, Librarian and Creator of the ACT UP Method
Participants will:
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date and Time:
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 5:15-6:45pm Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor -Bird Library (Room 114) Please email grcolosi@syr.edu with any questions.
Register here!
Graduate Roundtable Series: SCRC Working with Primary Sources and Special Collections
Have dinner on us and learn more about researching using our special collections and primary sources. Workshop will be a combination of hands-on and lecture format.
The first half of this session will be in Special Collections’ Lemke classroom, then we will move to Room 114 and offer a lecture style presentation.
Note food will be served.
Attendance at this Special Collections workshop is limited to the first 17 graduate student registrants.
Attendees should meet outside the elevators, 6th Floor Bird Library, Robert Ortwine Gallery
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2021
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Special Collections Research Center and Peter Graham Room, Bird Library 114
The Misappropriation and Misrepresentation of Research: Strategies for Facing a Growing and Problematic Trend, Led by Winn Wasson
Description: The good news is that your research got published. The bad news is that a group you have never heard of is now misappropriating or misrepresenting it to push an agenda that neither you nor your actual research conclusions support. This workshop provides strategies to prepare current and budding researchers to face this growing problem in how scholarship is portrayed outside of academia.
Intended Audience: Graduate Students, Faculty
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Library Collections Up Close: Meet SCOPUS
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff.
Peter Graham Room, Bird Library 114
How to Conduct Inclusive Searching: Incorporating Diverse Voices Into Your Research, Led by Brie Baumert
Join Brie Baumert for a hands-on workshop focusing on privileging other voices in scholarly searches. While recognizing that academic libraries often work within systems that rely on European and western ways of thinking, organizing, and knowing, we find it essential to reconstruct searching strategies to equitably include underrepresented and underserved voices. Come join our discussion on how to conduct inclusive searching to better incorporate sources from diverse and marginalized voices.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Graduate Roundtable Series: Publish or Perish
Description: Have dinner on us at this SU Libraries and SU Graduate Student Organization event, where panelists will discuss best practices for crafting a proposal and writing a book-length manuscript, or article from the perspectives of authors and editors. They also will share their experiences, challenges, and success stories, with a question-and-answer period to follow. Panelists from the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts and College of Arts & Sciences are:
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date and Time:
March 23, 2022 5:00pm – 7:30pm EST Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor -Bird Library (Room 114) Please email grcolosi@syr.edu with any questions.
Sponsored by the GSO, the Syracuse University Humanities Center, and the Syracuse University Libraries
Register here!
Preprints: The Who, What & Why, Led by Juan Denzer and Alayna Vander Veer
Description: Publishing your manuscript as a preprint is a great way to share, collaborate, grow, and get noticed. But what exactly is a preprint? How do you know if your research should be published as a preprint? Do you know the different types of copyright? Where should you publish? Do specific journals even publish preprints? Are there alternative repositories for lab protocols, data, code, etc.? This presentation will help answer these questions.
The outcomes for attendees of the presentation will include:
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff
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