Ready for an introduction to generative AI tools like Chat GPT or the UMN login versions of Microsoft Co-Pilot or Google Gemini but not sure how to use them (or if you should) in your research and writing? Learn about how these tools work, the pros and cons and tips for incorporating them into your research and writing practice.

In this workshop, you'll learn how our expertise as academic librarians complements the skills you'll develop in your program. We will share tips about how to schedule a meeting, prep for your meeting, and how you can expect the meeting to go.

Learn new strategies, tools and hacks that can help you this semester. We will talk about semester planning including the semester calendar, study planning, UMN Libraries services and peer tutoring across campus (success.umn.edu). Get ideas for keeping up the motivation and staying on track in your courses.

This workshop will provide an overview of the library resources and services available to UMN graduate students. You’ll learn how to effectively find scholarly materials and how librarians and other library staff can assist you to succeed.

Watching and listening to lectures is an important part of college. Learn tips and tricks to get the most out of them whether they are IRL (in real life) or online. Become more efficient with your class time and learn how to organize materials to help prepare with quizzes and tests.

In this workshop, learn about various review methodologies like systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and other types of evidence syntheses.

Learn about using the citation management software, EndNote, to import citations, customize your account, and format your bibliographies and in-text citations.

Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office.

This online workshop will help you understand what plagiarism is and some of the most common mistakes that students make. We will also talk about Chat GPT, Microsoft Co-pilot, Google Gemini and other AI tools, what they do and how to think through using them (or not).

This workshop will cover: screening and reading articles efficiently, using organizational tools (research logs and tables, tags, annotated bibliographies) to summarize and surface connections between sources, and practicing a formula for writing your lit review.

JabRef is a citation manager with native BibTeX support and is perfect for text-based typesetting...