Calling all game gurus and thrill-seekers! Ready to swap textbooks for joysticks? Summon your inner ninja with Fruit Ninja or channel your inner rockstar with Beat Saber. Take a break from the slog of finals studying and reset your brain with games!
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. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
Every student experiences stress, and it’s important to find your strategies for taking care of yourself. In this workshop, we will use an app called Hoame to experience a guided meditation exercise. You will also learn how you can borrow a VR headset if you decide to make this part of your strategy. These VR for Stress Reduction workshops are not intended to be professional therapy or medical advice. To locate these services for students, staff and faculty, see z.umn.edu/personalwellbeing.
Get ready for finals and the end of semester! Bring your homework and get stuff done with structured work time and study breaks. Join us at Wilson Library (west bank) for the Long Night Against Procrastination on Wednesday, April 30, 6:30-9:30 p.m. We will have structured work time, fun study breaks with snacks and activities, music and more. Don’t miss the pizza!
Need a way to destress as you prep for finals? Want to liven up your study space? Join us as we teach you how to model your own desktop zen garden and send it to 3D print! Fill your garden with whatever brings you peace, whether that be fun-shaped rocks and plants or dinosaurs and video game characters. You'll go home with everything you'll need to design and create your garden - just bring yourself and a willingness to learn and create!
Let’s talk about love! From love letters to break up letters, the course of true love never did run smooth. Join us for the 2024-2025 season of First Fridays as we share matters of the heart from collections across Archives and Special Collections. This final program in the First Fridays season features presentations from the Charles Babbage Institute Archives and the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life.
Learn how to use sewing and embroidery machines to make anything involving fabric! During this workshop you can expect to learn how to operate and thread the machines, create custom designs, and make your very own Block M pillow! Feel free to stay after to make one for yourself!
This archival project explores the hidden role of post-World War II migrants from the Baltic states and Eastern Europe in shaping US-Soviet relations through soft power. The talk focuses primarily on cultural “proxy battles” such as international hockey tournaments and political institutions like the Captive Nations Committee, which often stood in for open military conflict and shaped public opinion in the United States.
Join us at Wilson Library (west bank) for PAWS (Pet Away Worry and Stress) from UMN Boynton Health. Drop in at any time to meet registered therapy animal teams—including dogs, bunnies, cats, chickens, and other therapy animals. Sessions are FREE and open to the University of Minnesota community. All are welcome!
Join the Health Sciences Library for Stressbusters Tea & Treats on Thursday, May 8 from 11:00am-3:00pm at our service desk on the 5th floor of PWB. Need a complete break from cramming? Check out the HSL Makerspace for button making, 3D printing, sewing, creating vinyl stickers, and other crafts. The VR Studio is also open for enjoying gaming, wellness and meditation apps.
Learn about using the citation management software, EndNote, to import citations, customize your account, and format your bibliographies and in-text citations. We'll also discuss using EndNote in conjunction with EndNote Online, a web-based version of EndNote freely available to current University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff.
Learn about how generative AI tools work, the pros and cons and tips for incorporating them into your research and writing practice.
Go behind the scenes at Elmer L. Andersen Library with Doors Open Minneapolis. Visitors will be able to tour the caverns 80 feet beneath the building, as well as see and learn about rare and unique collection materials, such as the 1602 Ricci map of the world, and view exhibits such as “Making Room,” about pioneering women architects, “Campus Kiosk: The Voice of Student Groups at the U,” and our very own 221b Baker Street sitting room.
Andersen Library, the Archives, exhibits and underground Caverns will be part of Doors Open Minneapolis May 17 and 18!
Go behind the scenes at Elmer L. Andersen Library with Doors Open Minneapolis. Visitors will be able to tour the caverns 80 feet beneath the building, as well as see and learn about rare and unique collection materials, such as the 1602 Ricci map of the world, and view exhibits such as “Making Room,” about pioneering women architects, “Campus Kiosk: The Voice of Student Groups at the U,” and our very own 221b Baker Street sitting room.
Andersen Library, the Archives, exhibits and underground Caverns will be part of Doors Open Minneapolis May 17 and 18!
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. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
This workshop will break down how to effectively search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover tracing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.
In this special storytelling event on Thursday, May 29, we travel 100 years back to trace the long and under-explored history that brought us to that moment in 2020 when George Floyd's death at the hands of police sparked a global racial reckoning.
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