Western Libraries hosts Research Skills Workshops that offer an introduction to many of the research services and supports offered at the library. Most workshops are held on Zoom; more information is provided on the event pages (linked below). Follow the links to register.
Upcoming workshops:
- June 1 (10am-11:30): Telling Stories with Maps: an Introduction to StoryMaps Story Maps are a great way to combine your maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to create compelling, user-friendly web apps. In this workshop, you’ll follow along with a demonstration of building a Story Map from the planning stage to the publishing stage. Story Maps are a great way to feature your research project and share data, project descriptions, photos, videos, audio, and maps in an interactive and digital platform and can be embedded on department web-pages or shared as stand-alone URLs. Examples of Story Maps.
- June 8 (1pm-2:30): Finding and Evaluating Scholarly Sources
- June 13 (1pm-2:00): Leveraging Covidence: Learning to Use Systematic Review Software
- Jun 22 (1pm-2:30): Organizing Research with Reference Management Tools
- June 27 (1pm-2:30): Telling Stories with maps: an Introduction to StoryMaps* (in-person)
- June 28 (10am-11:30): Creating Explorable, Interactive, Data Dashboards Learn how to turn static spreadsheets and datasets into interactive data dashboards. These data visualization tools can be used to highlight research in an explorable web-based platform. This workshop will walk through how to create a dashboard using research data from the Northern Tornadoes Project. Participants will be introduced to the ArcGIS Online platform, and the Dashboards application. Examples of Dashboards.
- June 29 (1pm-2:30): Diversifying Citations (and Perspectives)
- July 7 (1pm-2:30): Creating Explorable, Interactive, Data Dashboards* (in-person)
To find more upcoming Western Library events and workshops visit the Western Libraries Events page. If you have questions about workshops, please email rsclib@uwo.ca.