Control Academic Stress Series: Procrastination and Perfectionism
Procrastination and perfectionism are common challenges for many students. In the first session of the Control Academic Stress series, we'll discuss the links between procrastination and perfectionism, identify strategies to
IF Series Brown Bag Lunch: A White Vegetarian Professor-Mom Supports the Haudenosaunee Hunt in the Shorthills Provincial Park — and Learns to Sit Quietly
A White Vegetarian Professor-Mom Supports the Haudenosaunee Hunt in the Shorthills Provincial Park -- and Learns to Sit Quietly Speaker: Julie Cairnie Register here: http://cal.lib.uoguelph.ca/event/3462846 Library: THINC Lab, Room 280
IF…Series presents Tara Bynum “Sarah and Bess: An Accounting of Two Black Girl-Friends”
THINC Lab welcomes visiting fellow Tara Bynum of Hampshire College for her talk Sarah and Bess: An Accounting of Two Black Girl-Friends. Prof. Bynum will discuss her new project, a digitization of Cesar Lyndon's account book and will consider what a digital scholarly edition can help us understand about a text and its historical moment. Register
Open Access Week Film Screening: “Paywall”
Did you know that the library spends over $6 million annually to provide access to research outputs that researchers have provided freely to publishers? Globally, academic publishers earn over $25 billion US each year. The documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship explores the world of academic publishing, challenging the rationale behind the for-profit academic publishing
Open Access Week: Keynote Speaker
Come kick off this year’s Open Access Week with our opening keynote, Kelsey Merkley. Merkley is a Senior Policy Advisor at Ontario Digital Service and an open innovation practitioner with several years’ experience working with local, national and global organizations. Formerly a Public Lead for Creative Commons Canada and Creative Commons South Africa, she has
Data Skills Workshop: Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment that allows you to do a number of straight-forward text analysis functions, including but not limited to: word counts, tag
Data Skills Workshop: Tableau Part 1
A picture is worth a thousand words! Especially when you don’t have to read the thousand words it would take to explain the patterns and trends in your data. There
Data Skills Workshop: Excel
Excel is a popular tool that provides many powerful features that can assist you in managing your data and help to better understand small and large data sets. While not
Data Skills Workshop: GIS
ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS), a software program for working with maps and geographic data. A GIS allows you to work with any data that you know a
IF… Speaker Series: Creating Indigenous Feminist Space
Prof. Kim Anderson kicks off the semester's IF... speaker series with her talk Creating Indigenous Feminist Space. In this talk, Prof. Anderson will discuss how she has been engaged in embodied place-making with Indigenous women on campuses in the Guelph and Waterloo regions. As a founding member of the Kika'ige Historical Society (with Lianne Leddy and Brittany
Lunch and Learn: Accessibility in the Classroom
Please join us at the first in a series of Lunch and Learn sessions of the Colleges’ Hub for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Gather tips and strategies Engage with others
Gryphons Read: In Conversation with David Chariandy (Open to the Public)
One book. One campus. One community. Join us Sept. 25 for an evening with David Chariandy, author of Brother, the 2018 Gryphons Read selection. This event is free and open
Data Skills Workshop: Getting Data
How many different types of data are there? What’s most important about the data you want to find? Come to this workshop and we’ll explore these questions together! Strategies and
Data Skills: Research Data Management and Preservation
Every researcher begins a research project by formulating a research question and devising a methodology in which to undertake the project. What if you began your project with a plan
Data Skills Workshop: Data Basics
Ever wonder what sort of data you will be dealing with? Do you find yourself lost when it’s time to prepare your data for analysis? In this workshop, you will
Writing Tune-up: Grammar, Day 2 of 2
This two-day Grammar Writing Tune-up series is open to graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral students, visiting scholars and researchers, faculty and staff at the University of Guelph, as well as
Writing Tune-up: Grammar, Day 1 of 2
This two-day Grammar Writing Tune-up series is open to graduate students, undergraduate students, post-doctoral students, visiting scholars and researchers, faculty, staff and community members. Topics covered include: Structuring sentences Using
New International Graduate Student Orientation
All new international graduate students are invited to the fall 2018 New International Graduate Student Orientation Session to learn about the resources available across campus. Light refreshments will be
Data Skills Workshop: Creating Data – Surveys
Many researchers, administrators and service providers use surveys to collect data. With the tools available to us, it is easy to create and distribute a survey. However, there are a
Supporting Digital Literacy with the Library’s Media Studio
Digital media assignments, such as podcasts, digital stories and live-action videos, can help students develop much-needed digital literacy skills. Creating digital media assignments and embedding digital academic skills content into
