This session will occur online and is facilitated by the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. Facilitators: Chad Crichton, Liaison Librarian University of Toronto Scarborough Library The UTSC Library is pleased to join the UTSC English Department in welcoming spoken word poet and activist El Jones as our Writer-in-Residence for 2021. El Jones is a poet, […]
Does your research require you to build an archive of Instagram data? In this workshop attendees will learn how to scrape Instagram posts with the Instagram-Scraper program in your command line interface without going through the tedious process of manually downloading posts. Attendees will also be guided through the process of cleaning up Instagram data […]
Part 2: Beyond MEDLINE: Translating Search Strategies for Knowledge Syntheses Audience: University of Toronto graduate students and faculty engaged in health science research. UTORids will be required to participate. (if you are affiliated with UofT but do not know your UTORid, email: kaitlin.fullerutoronto.ca) **Please register using an UofT email address eg. @utoronto.ca or @mail.utoronto.ca** Date: […]
Having trouble with finding the time and motivation to write? Shut Up and Write is a chance for academic writers within the UofT community to write productively in a communal setting. The drop-in sessions will follow the Pomodoro technique where there will be a sequence of short sprints of writing with a few breaks in […]
What is mindfulness and what are the benefits of incorporating practices into daily life? Join us for an introduction to the topic of mindfulness. The session will be presented by Mina Arakawa. Mina is a sessional lecturer and Writing Instructor at the UTSC Writing Support and in Engineering Communication Program on St. George campus. She […]
Faculty members, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend. Workshops will include a presentation with opportunities for questions and discussion. Learning objectives include the following: • Understand history and principles behind research ethics review • Describe procedures under Tri-council policy statement: Ethical conduct for research involving humans • Explain UT’s risk matrix for assessing […]
OJS Tips & Tricks is a series of 30 minute practical workshops led by JPS staff. This series is designed to help journal editors learn more about the different features available on your Open Journal Systems (OJS)* website and how they can benefit your journal. This workshop will feature demos of OJS tools and plugins […]
With this introduction to Git, we will go over the basics on Git and GitHub. We will go over setting up a GitHub account, explaining basic commands like clone, add, and commit, setting up a repository on GitHub, and how to recover old versions of files. (This session is part of the UTM Library 501 […]
For U of T students, faculty, and staff of all disciplines interested in learning more about researching companies and finding competitor information. Includes an overview of subscription databases and publicly available resources for company research. You’ll learn how to: Evaluate different types of company information and understand the differences between public and private companies Find […]
Having trouble with finding the time and motivation to write? Need a jumpstart to focus on writing for your assignment, screenplay, short story, cover letter, or grant application? Shut Up and Write is a chance for academic and creative writers within the UofT community to write productively in a communal setting. The drop-in sessions will […]
This session will occur online and is facilitated by the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. It is part of the library's Part of ongoing Black History Month Wikipedia-a-Thon. Join us to edit pages in Wikipedia for Black History Month! Facilitators are on site to help you through all aspects of the research and editing process. […]
