In honour of the launch of the Student Mental Health Action Plan on September 24, we will be creating a community collage of photography, artwork, and writing representing how students, staff, and...  More

The University of Alberta’s Studio Theatre presents Jen Silverman’s dark comedy, The Moors, from October 10-18 at Timms Centre for the Arts, directed by MFA thesis candidate Alissa Watson. Set in...  More

Git is the most commonly used version control system today: it allows you to track and revert changes to text files (especially code), and to share your work with collaborators without stumbling over...  More

Covidence is a web-based synthesis review (systematic, scoping, rapid, etc.) manager that helps to facilitate deduplication of results, phased screening (title/abstract and full-text), risk of bias...  More

In this workshop we will dive into Adobe Premiere Pro for an in-depth video editing session. In addition to technical processes in editing, we will discuss the power of the editing phase; how a change...  More

Depositing research data into digital data repositories in support of their long-term stewardship is increasingly becoming a required component of the research process. Join us for an applied session...  More

Are you finding no previous research on your research topic -- or are you drowning in hundreds of citations? This one-hour workshop will teach you how to efficiently find the papers that you need..

Clear, compelling document design is essential in academic, administrative, and research settings. This workshop introduces participants to the core principles of effective document design while...  More

Sound offers researchers a powerful medium for exploring and communicating ideas, capturing environments, and giving voice to perspectives that written text alone cannot convey. This workshop invites...  More

GitHub is a commonly hosting service for git repositories and workflows. It has many features to facilitate collaboration on shared projects, including code review, submitting changes, issue tracking,...  More

An interactive session on how Generative AI can be used to support Library research. Ethical considerations and limitations will also be addressed. This session is being offered as part of Media...  More

Podcasting and digital storytelling have rapidly become powerful tools in knowledge translation, bridging the gap between research and broader audiences. Digital storytelling through audio offers a...  More

Humans have evolved to be adept visual pattern matchers. From the arts to the sciences, from the social sciences to journalism and literary studies, data visualization techniques attempt to make...  More

Learn to identify different types of misinformation and practice strategies for evaluating information online. This session is being offered as part of Media Smart's 20th annual Media Literacy Week...  More

Scholarship encompasses learning, teaching, discovering and disseminating knowledge in a systematic way. The Digital Scholarship Centre seeks to open the doors to these activities by supporting the...  More

Instructors: Robert Desjardins (Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies), François Pageau (Campus Saint-Jean), and Linda Quirk (Bruce Peel Special Collections). Description: Explore very early...  More

In this session you will have the opportunity to ask Marisa Ruccolo from Clarivates any questions you may have on any of the Clarivate tools and databases licensed by the library.

In this session, Marisa Ruccolo, will provide a brief introduction and answer any questions from attendees on using any of the Clarivate tools (e.g. InCites, Web of Science Core Collection, Journal...  More

Research communication often requires the representation of data in the form of charts or diagrams to illustrate how experiments were conducted, to elaborate on frameworks, and to explain complex...  More

In this online session, get help from a librarian to address research or information searching questions or challenges you may be experiencing related to your assignments for English 102, 103 or 125.

Increase the visibility of your research by learning how to create effective metadata for your data deposits in Borealis (Dataverse). The Borealis platform provides an extensive set of metadata fields...  More

Indigenous Knowledges, developed by specific cultures over millennia, are shared in ways beyond the usual academic sources. Join us to learn where to learn these Knowledges, and how to understand how...  More

NVivo software is an established software platform used primarily for coding and analyzing qualitative research data. This workshop will go over the basics of using NVivo for data analysis. We will...  More

In this in-person session, get help from a librarian to address research or information searching questions or challenges you may be experiencing related to your assignments for English 102, 103 or 125.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) allows a researcher to constrain a large language model to use specific source files, essentially providing it with a curated knowledge base to use when answering...  More