Upcoming Workshops at SU Libraries
Greetings Renee Crown Honors Program students, from Michael Pasqualoni, the Newhouse School Subject Specialist Librarian at SU Libraries. Attending one of these brief workshops on news and newspaper databases may be beneficial for some of you, if your research overlaps with news sources. Useful for considering the range of ways SU Libraries can help with your explorations of current or more deeply historical U.S. and international news and newspapers publications. SU students in Renee Crown Honors program would be welcome and encouraged to attend, one of these session on news sources, or also “any” of the other listed Fall 2024 workshops that are of interest.
News and Newspaper Databases, Presented by Michael Pasqualoni, Librarian for the Newhouse School of Public Communications
Description: Undergraduates from any SU school or college who anticipate working with news sources are encouraged to join Newhouse School Librarian Michael Pasqualoni to boost effectiveness when using news and newspaper databases for exploring current or historical journalism, alternative press sources and publications outside the United States. Although not required, students can also bring specific questions about a project or assignment that is in progress or upcoming. Two session opportunities are offered.
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 11:00-12:20pm OR Thursday October 3, 2024 3:30-4:50pm
Location: Wednesday’s in person session is in Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor (Room 114), Thursday’s class is via ZOOM.
- Other Fall 2024 workshops from Syracuse University Libraries – For full descriptions, also visit Learn! at Syracuse University Libraries
ONLINE SESSION
Saving, Organizing, and Citing your sources with Zotero (citation management), Presented by Winn Wasson, Social Science Librarian
An overview of Zotero, a free and popular platform that allows students and researchers to save and annotate sources, collaborate with classmates and colleagues, generate citations and bibliographies in papers, and access references from anywhere.
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: ZOOM
Registration Link
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Citation Workshop: A Deeper Dive, Presented by Michelle Mitchell, Reference and Instruction Librarian and Juan Denzer, Librarian for the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Learn about what and how you should cite sources that are not just articles and books. Learn to properly cite less common resources that might get overlooked such as personal communications, legal documents, historical documents, figures, tables, images, social media, conversations, programming code, etc.
Dinner will be provided.
Date: Wednesday October 16, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Bird Library, Room 114
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Academic Book Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Presented by SU Press
Editors will walk participants through the stages of gauging editors’ and presses’ interest in research projects, the key elements of a book proposal, peer review and manuscript preparation, what each department at a press helps the author accomplish, and what happens when a book enters the wider world. They will also clarify common misconceptions about publishing and what it means to publish with a university press, an academic press, and a commercial press. There is no expectation of prior knowledge about book publishing
Dinner will be provided.
Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Bird Library, Room 114
Registration Link
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Let’s Go on a Research Journey with Sage Research Methods [SRM], Presented by Ana Guimaraes, Engagement Librarian for Sage Publications
Explore and compare detailed information on hundreds of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, and use SRM database to support developing a research question, doing a literature review, planning a project, collecting and analyzing data, and writing your results in a report, thesis, or dissertation.
Dinner will be provided.
Date: Thursday October 24, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Bird Library, Room 114
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Copyright, Contracts, and the Creative, Presented by William Matthew Krueger, Esq., Law Reference Librarian
Come learn some of the foundational concepts of copyright and contract law in a presentation more targeted to the creative mind. Learn about topics like fair use and copyright infringement. Will also will share resources available on the Syracuse University campus onsite and digitally for legal research. (It is not just the Law Library!).
Dinner will be provided.
Date: Wednesday October 30, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Bird Library, Room 004
ONLINE SESSION
Navigating Bias in Generative AI, Presented by Kiley Jolicoeur, Metadata Strategies Librarian, and John Stawarz, Online Learning Librarian
Will introduce students and researchers to topics regarding bias in generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Starting with discussing how to spot bias, we’ll explore how bias is introduced to AI tools during their construction and how researchers bring their own biases when using these tools.
Date: Friday, November 1, 2024
Time: 11:00-12:00 pm
Location: ZOOM
Registration Link
ONLINE SESSION
Using Generative AI for Literature Reviews and Research, Presented by Juan Denzer, Librarian for the College of Engineering and Computer Science and John Stawarz, Online Learning Librarian
Will introduce you to generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Copilot, as well as specific AI research tools including Research Rabbit and Keenious. Librarians will demonstrate how to use these tools effectively and ethically in an academic setting through examples.
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: ZOOM
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Digital Humanities Workshop: Introduction to Text and Data Mining concepts with the HathiTrust Digital Library, Presented by Patrick Williams, Humanities Librarian and Digital and Open Scholarship Lead
An Introduction to Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, a hands-on workshop. Patrick will provide an overview of text mining & HathiTrust in general and will focus on the ways we can make use of the HathiTrust Research Center to undertake our own experiments. No programming experience is necessary.
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Location: Bird Library, Lower Level, Room 046
IN PERSON SESSION IN SYRACUSE, NY
Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms, Presented by Daniel Pacheco, Newhouse School Professor and Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation
Professor Pacheco, author of Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms: Field Testing the Future (Routledge, 2023), will look at how Extended Reality (XR) technology can be applied by students, faculty or staff, at low cost and with vivid results.
Dinner will be provided.
Date: Tuesday November 19, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Bird Library, Room 114
Michael Pasqualoni
Librarian for the Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University Libraries
315.443.3715
mjpasqua@syr.edu
222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
library.syracuse.edu
Syracuse University
