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. Open to everyone but strongly recommended for first-year graduate students!
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.
Join the Sherlock Holmes Collections on Sept. 8 for a riveting book talk with award-winning author, screenwriter, and director, Nicholas Meyer. Meyer will discuss his new book, “Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing.” The plot follows Holmes and Watson as they delve into the cut-throat world of art forgery in 1890s London.
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.
Join three archivists from University Libraries Archives and Special Collections for an engaging and collaborative interactive session. Learn more about the Archives at the University of Minnesota, the underground storage caverns and more.
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.
Join us to learn more about getting started with undergraduate or faculty-sponsored research. We will host a panel with undergraduate student researchers who will share their experiences of doing research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Learn about using the citation management software, EndNote, to import citations, customize your account, and...
Have trouble keeping up with the new research in your field or research topics? Learn how to use BrowZine, a free Libraries provided tool to create your own virtual reading room of your favorite journals. Read articles on your mobile device or iPad. You’ll also learn how to set up database and journal alerts to keep up on published scholarship in your field. Open to all disciplines.
Learn how to use BrowZine, a tool to create your own virtual reading room of your favorite journals. You’ll also learn how to set up database and journal alerts to keep up on published scholarship in your field.
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).
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