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Apply to be a Library Ambassador by August 27th
Are you an OU-Tulsa student who would like to help Schusterman Library staff make a difference at our campus? Apply to be a Library Ambassador by Aug. 27th at https://bit.ly/LibAmbassadors2021.
Not only do our Ambassadors play a key role in improving library services and resources, they also get cool benefits like extended study room reservations, free b&w printing, graduation cords, Ambassador Alumni library use privileges, and volunteer experience on their resume plus resume/cover letter support!
Survival Skills: Managing Research Files
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free workshop: Survival Skills: Managing Research files. Tulsa-based students, faculty, and staff are welcome!
This workshop will help you start your project off right by considering how you will manage your data, filenaming, folder structures, readmes, and how your datasets relate to each other. Learn more and register here.
Free online workshops on Graphic Scholarship: July 8, 15, & 22
Schusterman Library is hosting a series of three online workshops on Graphic Scholarship! Registration is free and open to everyone for one or all of the workshops, but attending all three is highly recommended.
1: Understanding Comics and Cartooning
Date: July 8, 2021 / 12-1pm (US Central Time)
Info & registration: https://ou-tulsa.libcal.com/event/7984923
Schusterman Library will be closed Monday, June 21, 2021
The OU-Tulsa campus, including Schusterman Library, will be closed on Monday, June 21st in observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day. The library will reopen on Tuesday, June 22nd at 8 am for regularly scheduled hours.
Visualizations in R using 'ggplot2'
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free intermediate level workshop for researchers: Visualizations in R using 'ggplot2'. Tulsa-based students, faculty, and staff are welcome!
Data Management with SQL
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free beginner level workshop for researchers: Data Management with SQL. Tulsa-based students, faculty, and staff are welcome!
This online workshop will be held on May 4 from 9am to 12pm. You can learn more and register for the workshop here.
R for Social Scientists
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free online introduction to R designed for learners with no programming experience. Tulsa-based students, faculty, and staff are welcome!
The workshop over the two mornings (April 20 and April 27) is hands-on and aids in learning by "code-along". As such, Participants are encouraged to use their own computers. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of the software.
Version control using Git and GitHub
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free online workshop that will introduce the concepts of version control and introduce the tools Git (software) and GitHub (cloud service). This workshop is for beginners and no previous experience with Git or version control is required.
The workshop will be held on April 13.
No previous experience with Git or version control is required.
Cleaning Data with Open Refine
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free online workshop that will teach you to use OpenRefine to effectively clean and format data and automatically track any changes that you make. The workshop will be held on April 6.
No previous experience with OpenRefine is required.
All OU-Tulsa students, faculty, staff, and residents are invited to register for this workshop.
Learn LaTeX
DAVIS (the Data Analytics, Visualization, and Information Syndicate) at Bizzell Library is offering a free introductory workshop to learn what you need to create and edit a document in LaTeX, including formatting, placing images, creating tables, using equations, and creating citations. The workshop will be held online on March 24.
No previous experience with LaTeX is required.
Come ready to create a document. We will use an online compiler, so there is no need to download anything before you arrive.