Library 501 Past Workshops

101: Images and UofT Teaching Collections (JStor) - online

This session will introduce you to image basics (digital resolution, processing, file types) and what quality is needed for printing, the web and projections in the classroom. There will be an introduction to the University of Toronto Institutional Teaching Collection (accessible via UTOR ID), other image sources used for publishing versus educational use and what you need to know about copyright restrictions for digital images.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain knowledge about image copyright restrictions (educational versus publishing)
• Learn where to locate images for the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
• Learn about digital image citation formats.
• Gain a knowledge about digital image sizes, formats, naming and storage.

Data Visualisation with Tableau

Academic research today can often involve working with large amounts of tabular data. Such data may have been collected by yourself or by others, and it may come in many different formats and file sizes. Being able to visualize such data can bring greater understanding of your research and even open up new avenues to explore. This workshop will provide some pointers on creating data visualizations using Tableau.

Introduction to the UTM Library and UTL Services for Graduate Students

The UTM Library connects you to the world-class research collections you'll need during your graduate career. In this workshop, you'll get an overview of the resources and services the Library offers, including:

• Finding and accessing library resources online and in-person
• Connecting with research specialists & liaison librarians
• Tools to help you manage datasets, citations, and more
• Workshops to build your skills further

Copyright, Licensing, and Permissions - Part 2

Part 2 of this workshop will discuss challenges that we have gone through, as well as questions that you can bring to this workshop. You will learn about strategies and resources that are available to help you understand copyright better. Together, we will clear misconceptions around these complex issues. Send your questions in advance to Yayo Umetsubo, a Scholarly Communications Librarian!

Copyright, Licensing, and Permissions - Part 1

Part 1 gives you an introduction about copyright laws and discusses differences between ideas, facts, and works that are in the public domain, freely available on the Internet, and Open Access. 

Introduction to SimplyAnalytics

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful mapping, analytics, and data visualization tool that allows you to create interactive visualizations using extensive demographic, business, and marketing data. After this 1-hour workshop, you will be able to access and navigate this online resource and get started creating and exporting maps, charts, and comparison tables using thousands of Canadian and US data variables.

Making a Map with RStudio

This virtual hands-on workshop will introduce a few selected R packages (available in RStudio) for creating simple maps. The topics covered include installing R packages, writing and running commands from R Script, plotting data, plus adding headers, labels and a legend to creating a map layout for export.  This workshop is most suitable for novice to experienced R users who have never used the software before for mapping data. (This is NOT an "Introduction to R" workshop)

Citation Management with Zotero, Mendeley, and Refworks

Gathering and organizing citations of earlier published research can take up a large amount of your time as a graduate student. Ultimately, these citations (articles, books, websites, social media, etc) may prove to be vital for your projects, reviews, and original research, especially if you are asked to provide a literature review or a bibliography to support your work. Using a bibliographic management tool can allow you to quickly save and organize your citations into project folders that are easily accessible from both your computer and the Cloud. They can also help you automatically generate in-text citations and a bibliography from your collection of references in your choice of citation style. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of three popular bibliographic management tools: Zotero, Mendeley, and Refworks.

Visual Literacy: Interpreting and Evaluating Images (Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Photographs) for Research and Publishing

This 90-minute session covers a wide range of issues pertaining to using images (charts, maps, photographs, statistics) beyond teaching and study. The session will introduce required image and file specifications, ethical considerations in research, current publishing requirements in the humanities versus sciences concerning images, lab images and the copyright complexities when using your own images from onsite research, excavations, museums and other public or private locations.

Making a Map in RStudio

This virtual hands-on workshop will introduce a few selected R packages (available in RStudio) for creating simple maps. The topics covered include installing R packages, writing and running commands from R Script, plotting data, plus adding headers, labels and a legend to creating a map layout for export.  This workshop is most suitable for novice to experienced R users who have never used the software before for mapping data. (This is NOT an "Introduction to R" workshop)