Happy Spring!
Spring quarter has begun, and there is a lot happening in the Research Commons. Join us for a presentation, workshop, or drop-in hours and start your quarter off right!
GFIS Office Hours and Upcoming Webinar
Spring Quarter Graduate Funding Information Service (GFIS) Office Hours for April 3-May 30 will be:
Thursdays 10-11am. GFIS Office.
Fridays 2-3pm. GFIS Office.
GFIS Manager Dana Bublitz will be doing a live webinar on Wednesday, April 9th from 2-3pm, entitled: “Summer Strategies: Organizing Your Funding Search Before Application Deadlines.”
Many funding deadlines occur between September and December, but that doesn’t mean that you can begin planning and preparing for fall funding deadlines now! In this webinar, Dana provides tips and tricks for strategizing your funding search to make the fall application process more manageable.
Join online: http://commons.lib.washington.edu/news-events/webinars (no RSVP necessary, max 100 webinar participants).
Spring Quarter Writing Consultations for Graduate Students
The Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC) offers drop-in consultations in the Research Commons for graduate students only. Consultations will begin on April 2 and run through June 11, 2014.
Wednesdays 12am – 3pm. Research Commons, Booth A.
Design Help Desk Spring Hours
The Design Help Desk offers free advising for members of the University of Washington community who are seeking to improve their visuals for presentation and publication. Design Consultations return April 8 and run through June 3, 2014
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:30pm. Research Commons, Room Green C.
Workshop: “Choosing the Right Citation Tool for You”: April 10
The Research Commons citation management team is offering a spring workshop to help you learn about about four citation management systems: Refworks, EndNote Basic, Mendeley, and Zotero, that allow you to import, store and share your research citations and automatically format your references into whatever style you need (APA, MLA, Chicago and more).
Thursday, Apr. 10, 2014, 2 – 3 pm., Allen Auditorium.
To join online: http://commons.lib.washington.edu/news-events/webinars
Praxis: Doing Scholarship Digitally: April 15
On Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2014, 12:30 – 1:15 pm., in the Research Commons Presentation Place, UW-IT’s Tyler Fox will present “Enabling Amateurism and Beyond.”
This Praxis talk will address the challenges of digital scholarship and what UW-IT Learning Technologies has learned thus far through focus groups, individual interviews and departmental conversations to identify needs in this emergent sphere. Tyler will also discuss new initiatives sponsored by Learning Technologies and their partners to address those needs and challenges.
The Praxis series is hosted by the Research Commons, and is sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and University of Washington Libraries.
