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Learn! at Syracuse University Libraries: Fall 2023 Workshops

Guide to Syracuse University Libraries research workshop series.

Jumpstart Your Journalism Research

Jumpstart Your Journalism Research, Led by Michael Pasqualoni 

Description: Undergraduates from any SU school or college who anticipate working with news sources are encouraged to join Newhouse School Librarian Michael Pasqualoni to boost effectiveness when using news and newspaper databases for exploring current or historical journalism, alternative press sources and publications outside the United States. Although not required, students are also encouraged to bring specific questions about a project or assignment that is in progress or anticipated.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff

Date and Time:

  • Wednesday, September 6, 2:20-3:30pm Bird Library Lower Level, Room 046
  • Friday, September 8, 11:20am-12:30pm Bird Library Lower Level, Room 046
  • Wednesday, September 13, 2:20-3:30pm via zoom
  • Wednesday, September 27, 1:30pm-2:40pm Bird Library Lower Level, Room 046

Registration Link

Creative Commons

How to Do Things With Creative Commons Licenses: Interpreting, Using, and Licensing Work, Led by Dylan Mohr

Description: Creative Commons Licenses (CCLs) are everywhere, but why? What are they and what do they do? Why would you use one for your own work, and how can you reuse other works under CCLs? At this session, participants will learn about the anatomy of a CCL and what uses each license allows. Registrants will learn how CCLs work with US copyright law (and beyond). The workshop will prepare scholars, students, and staff to feel confident applying and interpreting CCLs in their work and scholarship.

Intended Audience: Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff

Date and Time: 

Thursday, October 5th, 12:30-1:30pm, Bird Library, Lower Level, Room 046

Registration Link

Visualizing Your Data

Visualizing Your Data: Tools and Approaches from the Libraries’ collections, Presented by the Digital & Open Scholarship Team 

Description: Need help thinking of ways to visualize your data? On September 20th, from 5-7pm, graduate students are invited to join SU Librarians John Olson, Amanda DuBose, Patrick Williams, and Paul Bern for an overview and workshop surveying some of the Libraries’ licensed resources for visualizing data as well as the Research Data Services we offer students and faculty. Tools covered will include ArcGIS StoryMaps, ProQuest Visualization Studio, and Sage Research Data Visualizations. Participants will be introduced to approaches for visualizing, working with, and learning about geospatial, textual, and other data types across a variety of platforms.

Intended Audience: Graduate Students, and any Undergraduate Students, Faculty or Staff interested in this topic. 
Digital Badge:  Attendance at this event partially satisfies requirements for the Graduate School's Digital Badge in Research Communication.

Reserve your spot today by registering at https://syr.libwizard.com/f/visualdata  Hurry, as seats are limited!  Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the GSO and Syracuse University Libraries.  

Date: Wednesday, September 20th 2023 
Time: 5 PM-7 :00 PM  
Location: Bird Library (First Floor), Peter Graham Room 114

Understanding Academic Publishing with Springer Nature

Understanding Academic Publishing with Springer Nature: Presented by Robert Boissy, Director of Account Development, Institutional Sales and Marketing  

Description: Are you a soon to be graduate, aspiring researcher or graduate student seeking to unlock the secrets of successful publishing? Submitting your research to top-tier journals can be intimidating, but fear not! Our presentation will equip you with the essential knowledge to make your submissions stand out. The GSO and Syracuse University Libraries welcome you to this research roundtable talk presented by Springer Nature. Springer Nature is the publisher of Nature, the most highly cited journal worldwide. 

Learn more about: 

  • Springer Nature 

  • Logical Manuscript Structure 

  • Efficient Publishing Strategies 

  • Successful Journal Submission 

Don't miss this golden opportunity to elevate your academic career! Reserve your spot today by registering at  https://syr.libwizard.com/f/springernature. Hurry, as seats are limited!  Refreshments will be provided


Date: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 
Time: 5:00 PM-6:00 PM  
Location: Bird Library (Sixth Floor), Spector Room 608
 

Citation Workshop

Citation Workshop:  Not Just Citing Articles and Books 
Co-presenting Michelle Mitchell, Reference and Instruction Librarian and Juan Denzer, Librarian for the College of Engineering and Computer Science 

Description: Don’t wait until after you submit your dissertation, thesis or other project at the last minute. Learn about what and how you should cite sources that are not just articles and books. Learn how to properly cite resources that might get overlooked such as figures, tables, images, social media, conversations, etc. Also, learn how to contact an author or publisher. Join us for an exercise on how to do all of this. Reserve your spot today by registering at  https://syr.libwizard.com/f/citeall. Hurry, as seats are limited!  Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the GSO and Syracuse University Libraries.  
Intended Audience:  Graduate Students, and any Undergraduate Students, Faculty or Staff interested in this topic. 
 

Date: Thursday, October 26th 2023 
Time: 5 PM – 6:30 PM 
Location: Spector Seminar Room, Bird Library (Lower Level) Room 004 

Copyright for the Performing Arts: a Primer on Fair Use

Copyright for the Performing Arts: a Primer on Fair Use, Led by Amanda Dubose

Description: Are you a performer, creator, musician, aspiring musician, or music user? Want to make sure you're less likely to get a cease and desist letter from a big music producer if your video goes viral? Join Music and Performing Arts Librarian, Amanda DuBose, for an interactive workshop on the basics of fair use, how music copyright works, Public Domain, how you can find music you can use in your own projects, and protect your own original work. N.B.: Amanda is not a lawyer and will not be giving legal advice.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students

Date and Time:

  • Tuesday, November 28, 5:00pm-6:20pm, Bird Library Lower Level, Room 046

Registration Link

 

Funding for Your Research

Funding for Your Research 
Presenters: Chetna Chianese (Office of Research) and Melissa Welshans (Center for Fellowship and Scholarship Advising) 

Description: Need funding for your research? Come grab dinner and join members of the Center for Scholarship and Fellowship Advising and the Office of Research to learn about SU’s resources for identifying funding opportunities. Bring your laptops and keywords in mind to describe your project needs (the who, what, why and how), and leave with navigation tips and potential opportunities. Reserve your spot today by registering at https://syr.libwizard.com/f/researchfunding  . Hurry, as seats are limited!  Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the GSO and Syracuse University Libraries. 

Intended Audience:  Graduate Students, and any Undergraduate Students, Faculty or Staff interested in this topic. 
 

Date: Wednesday, September 27th 2023 
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm 
Location: Bird Library (First Floor), Peter Graham Room 114 

 

 

Publishing Workshop

How to Publish: A discussion for new and upcoming authors and scholars. Presented by Laura Fish, Syracuse University Press

Description: Book publishing can often be a murky and mysterious process for both scholars and non-academic authors alike. Acquisitions editors from Syracuse University Press hope to make that process clearer for early career scholars at SU to better prepare them as they determine their publishing goals for the future. The editors will walk participants through the stages of gauging editors’ and presses’ interest in research projects, the key elements of a book proposal, peer review and manuscript preparation, what each department at a press helps the author accomplish, and what happens when a book enters the wider world. They will also clarify common misconceptions about publishing and what it means to publish with a university press, an academic press, and a commercial press. There is no expectation of prior knowledge about book publishing, and students and scholars at all stages of their career are welcome to attend and ask questions. Reserve your spot today by registering at  https://syr.libwizard.com/f/supress. Hurry, as seats are limited!  Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the GSO and Syracuse University Libraries. 

Laura Fish is an acquisitions editor at SU Press, bringing in book projects on Middle East studies, geography, Haudenosaunee and Indigenous studies, and New York State and regional studies.  


Intended Audience:  Graduate Students, and any Undergraduate Students, Faculty or Staff interested in this topic. 
 

Date: Wednesday, October 25th  2023 
Time: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM 
Location: Bird Library (First Floor), Peter Graham Room 114 

Immersive Mobile Storytelling

PLEASE NOTE:  This November 9 workshop has been cancelled.  Unfortunately due to unanticipated circumstances it will not be able to proceed at this time and date. We hope to offer this interactive session again at a future date soon to be determined.  Students or faculty with related questions are welcome to contact Newhouse School Librarian, Michael Pasqualoni, at mjpasqua@syr.edu (11/4)

Immersive Mobile Storytelling 

Presented by Professor Daniel Pacheco, Newhouse School Professor and Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation 

Description: Professor Pacheco, author of Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms: Field Testing the Future (Routledge, 2023), is joined by his visual storytelling students for this look at how Extended Reality (XR) technology can be applied by students, faculty or staff, at low cost and with vivid results.  Bypass advanced coding complexity and practice creating your own XR content at this research roundtable workshop.  See examples like Visualizing 81, which uses XR to explore the predominantly Black, Jewish and immigrant communities that intersect with past, present, and future of Syracuse’s 15th Ward, as plans now turn to groundbreaking for replacing a 1.4-mile section of Interstate 81 with a “community grid.”  Be sure to bring a laptop or equivalent device, and join us for a fun and educational evening.  Dinner will be provided. Sponsored by the GSO and SU Libraries.  

Intended Audience:  Graduate Students, and any Undergraduate Students, Faculty or Staff interested in this topic. 
Digital Badge:  Attendance at this event partially satisfies requirements for the Graduate School's Digital Badge in Research Communication.

Date: Thursday, November 9th 2023 
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm 
Location: Bird Library (First Floor), Peter Graham Room 114 

 

 

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT, Led by John Stawarz

Description: Artificial intelligence is everywhere—news headlines, classrooms, and even embedded within library resources. This workshop, led by online learning librarian John Stawarz, will introduce you to the topic of artificial intelligence, highlight some of the main tools now available, demonstrate the latest versions of ChatGPT, offer guidance on using ChatGPT in your academic coursework, and answer any questions you might have.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students

Date and Time: 

Monday, October 2nd, 2:00-3:00pm via ZOOM