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Student Journal Forum 2019

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Location: Robarts Library

University of Toronto Libraries invites you to our 4th annual Student Journal Forum! Whether you are publishing a journal or thinking about starting one, this event is for you. Undergraduate and graduate students from all 3 campuses are welcome!

This year we are excited to bring you:

a keynote speaker from the University of Toronto Press a panel of student journal publishers who will share their experiences and best practices table discussions and networking opportunities

Registration is free and lunch is included.

For schedule details visit the Student Journal Forum 2019 website.

Details:

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Time: 10am – 1:30pm Place: Blackburn Room, 4th floor, Robarts Library

Questions about the event? Contact Mariya Maistrovskaya

Critical Thinking, Reading & Note-Taking

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Time: 5:15pm - 6:45pm
Presenter: Career & Co-Curricular Learning Network (CLNx)
Location: Robarts Library

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Time: 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Location: Blackburn Room - 4th Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St George St, Toronto, ON

Organizer: Career & Co-Curricular Learning Network (CLNx)

Many students find keeping up with the readings and lecture notes at university to be a real challenge. Many students also find that they need to adopt new reading and note-taking strategies as they advance in their studies, and when then start to study in new fields. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss some reading and note-taking strategies that students can try as well as ways of adapting these strategies to fit individual needs and preferences.

Click here to register (student login is required).

ArcGIS Pro - An Introduction

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Map & Data Library

Participants in this workshop will learn the basics manipulating, visualizing and analyzing geospatial datasets in Esri's newest desktop software. Topics covered will include: A tour of ArcGIS Pro; Loading and Manipulating; shapefiles and geodatabases; Symbology; Cartography; Spatial and Attribute Joins; Querying; Summarized Statistics; Subsetting; Clipping; Erasing and Buffering; Geocoding. Participants will also work through solving a problem using GIS analysis tools.

Essential Research Skills: Finding Scholarly Sources

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Time: 4:10pm - 5:30pm
Location: Robarts Library

Essential Research Skills workshop series

Set yourself up for academic success by learning essential research skills that can help you save time, get better grades, deepen your engagement with your subject, and boost your confidence. Participants learn how to develop successful research questions; how to effectively search for quality resources; how to choose and critically evaluate the best sources; and how to use information responsibly. These are also skills that employers look for in potential employees

Take these workshops individually or take all four for credit in the Co-Curricular Record. Each workshop will be offered several times over the year - check back for more dates.

Essential Research Skills: Finding Scholarly Sources

Location: Robarts LIbrary. e-classroom, 4th floor, room 4033. Directions

Description: Engaging with the research literature on a topic is essential to your own research, whether you’re writing a paper for an undergraduate assignment or doing original research for your Ph.D. dissertation. Through lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises, this workshop will help you:

recognize the characteristics of a scholarly article find scholarly sources more efficiently and effectively select the best places to search for scholarly sources on your topic design an effective search strategy for your topic

Questions? Please contact Eveline Houtman.

Other workshops in the series:

Getting Started Choosing the Best Sources for Your Topic Citing and Organizing Your Work

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