Introduction to Zotero workshops Feb 24, Feb 26, or Feb 27

The liaison librarians at the University Libraries will be holding Introduction to Zotero workshops that are open to all graduate students.
Zotero is an open-source software that will help you collect, organize, and use sources. The sessions will walk you through downloading, account creation, adding and organizing resources, and incorporating citations into Word or Google Documents.

Sessions will be held in the CITI Lab in Jackson Library

    February 24 at 2p
    February 26 at noon
    February 27 at noon
Please register at this link. 

Those who can't participate might like the recorded webinar on this page: http://uncg.libguides.com/zotero.Your liaison librarian Lea Leininger can meet one on one to provide basic assistance (appointments listed here). Please contact her with any questions.

UNCG Libraries OER Week Jan 27-31

UNCG Libraries is hosting a series of events in honor of our first ever Open Education Resources (OER) Week January 27-January 31st:

Monday, January 27th 2pm, Open Pedagogy and Open Education at UNCG, 30 minute Webinar, Sign Up

Tuesday, January 28th and Wednesday January 29th at 12pm, OER Mini Grant Faculty Educational Workshops, for faculty and instructors interested in learning more about applying for an OER Mini Grant ($1000!) UNCG Libraries Room 216, RSVP to slharlow@uncg.edu and/or mlrood@uncg.edu

Thursday, January 30th at 9am, OER Experience Panel of Past UNCG OER Mini Grant Winners, UNCG Alumni House, Virginia Dare Room, open to all, no RSVP required. 

*Free coffee and pastries!!!!

Sneak Peek at the New PubMed - Dec 11 webinar, Dec 12 face to face session

It’s official!  The U.S. NLM has announced the new PubMed. 

Same great content, exciting new look and features. It’s still in development but definitely ready for a test drive.

Please join Lea Leininger, Health Sciences Librarian, for a tour and discussion of the new PubMed.  Register through a UNCG Workshops calendar link below.

• Weds 12/11, 12 - 12:30 pm webinar. Register: https://workshops.uncg.edu/event/sneak-peek-at-the-new-pubmed

• Thurs 12/12, 9 - 9:45 am Jackson Library CITI computer lab. Register: https://workshops.uncg.edu/event/sneak-peek-at-the-new-pubmed-face-to-face-session

Queer Cafe - Jackson Library Weds 11/13 from 10 am - Noon

In the Jackson Library Jewish Reading Room on Wednesday, November 13th, from 10 am - Noon.  

Jackson Library will be holding an event in support of UNCG LGBTQ+ students, called Queer Cafe! This idea was inspired by a similar event held at the New York Institute of Technology for National Coming Out Day. It is a way for LGBTQ+ identifying students to have a safe space to meet and interact with their LGBTQ+ librarians over coffee and snacks. Queer Cafe will mainly be a way for our students to see who we are (and that we exist) while we drink coffee and share some of our favorite resources (books, zines, etc.). It’s going to be very casual! This will not be a panel; participants won’t have to share anything about themselves that they don’t want to.

The event will take place in Jackson Library Tower room 974 (Jewish Reading Room) on Wednesday, November 13th, from 10 am - Noon.  

We hope to promote visibility by allowing LGTBQ+ library employees to be out and vulnerable to students who share similar experiences. With this in mind, we kindly ask that folks who do not identify under the Queer Umbrella sit this event out. We welcome support from our allies in ways other than attendance (marketing, spreading the word, etc) 

---Jo & the Queer Cafe Organizers 

***rescheduled***Give a 5-min. presentation about GIS, maybe you'll win an ArcGIS for Personal Use license

***This event has been rescheduled***
Note from Jo Klein, Geospatial and Data Visualization Librarian:
The GIS Day event originally to be held at Jackson Library this Wednesday 11/13 at 3PM will be rescheduled for 2020! New date and location TBD; the form for submissions will remain open. 

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Are you a geographic information system (GIS) user or are you interested in GIS? Do you have a GIS-related project to showcase or know of any cool GIS tools or maps? Share your work in a presentation at GIS Stew!

GIS Stew is a UNCG University Libraries event where students, faculty, and other members of the UNCG community come together to share their work and inspire others to learn more about geographic information systems (GIS), through 5-minute lightning round-style presentations.

Presentations can be about anything within the theme of GIS use: this is your chance to show off the spatial analysis you did for a research project, the process of how you made that cool map for class, or even just a really nifty interactive map that tells a story about something that interests you (and maybe how it was made)!

Presenters will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 5 free Esri ArcGIS for Personal Use licenses, provided by Esri as part of GIS Day, an Esri event that seeks to provide a platform for GIS users to share their work and inspire others to learn more. Learn more about GIS Day at https://www.gisday.com/.

Sign up to present at http://go.uncg.edu/gis-stew

For more information contact Jo Klein at ejklein@uncg.edu

focus groups on library technology

Dear UNCG Students,

We need your help to plan future Libraries’ technology!

Please join us for a focus group so we can gain your feedback on:

• Digital Signage that provide Libraries’ information
• How you use the Libraries’ computers and other technology
• What other technology you’d like to see in the Libraries

Pizza will be provided. Please bring your own drink!

All participants will receive a $10 Barnes and Noble gift card. 

Please sign up  for one of two focus groups:

Monday, October 28  5-6 pm Room 216 in Jackson Library

http://go.uncg.edu/techfgmon 

Wednesday, October 30 12-1 pm Room 216 in Jackson Library

http://go.uncg.edu/techfgwed

Webinars - Zotero for citation management - Tues 10/22 6 pm, Weds 10/23 9 am, Thurs 10/24 12 pm

Interested in learning to use the free Zotero software to manage your citations?

Participate in one of these webinars:

• Tues 10/22 @6 pm-6:45 pm
• Weds 10/23 @9 am-9:45 am
• Thurs 10/24 @12 pm-12:45 pm

 Sign up here: go.uncg.edu/zoterowebinars2019

TRIP medical search engine now links to UNCG full text

Fans of TRIP

The free medical search engine/database that filters results by evidence level, and sends users to PubMed and other free sources (where free is available)

are going to like this...

TRIP now has links to UNCG full text

A. If you're on campus on a desktop or the eduroam network, just enter TRIP as you normally would: https://www.tripdatabase.com

Under some descriptions, you'll see the note Full text: University of North Carolina at Greensboro

B. If you're off campus or not logged into eduroam, you can sign up for a free TRIP account.  

 

When setting up your account, choose University of North Carolina at Greensboro as your institution

 

After that, when you're logged into your TRIP account, links to UNCG full text will appear in some records

Webinar - "Researcher Identity Management" on Wednesday, August 28th

Webinar - "Researcher Identity Management" on Wednesday, August 28th at 11:30am:This session will cover some of the tools available to help manage your online research identity, such as researcher profiles and IDs available through ORCID, Google Scholar Citations, Scopus Author ID, and UNCG's NC DOCKS repository.

These tools can help you:

• Track citations and other usage metrics related to your publications
• Make sure your scholarship is attributed to you (and not someone of a similar name) in academic search systems
• Make your research visible to other scholars, potential readers, collaborators, funders, and others

Sign up here to attend live or receive a link to the recording. You can also find more information on the UNCG Libraries webinars webpage.

Instructors - Planning to assign streaming videos this fall? Please read this!

You may have noticed that the number of videos accessible through UNCG Libraries' Kanopy subscription has changed since the end of the spring term. Some films that were previously available for immediate use now require extra time to arrange access.

If you are planning to assign videos from Kanopy this fall, please click into the videos to make sure that you can watch them.

If a film from Kanopy that you've previous used is still available, great!  Please contact arowens2@uncg.edu to ask how long the license will last. 

Licenses for films in the Kanopy database only last one year. There is no way for you to determine when the film license expires. Public services librarians don't have this information, either, but your liaison librarian can help you get this information.

Many films have already been licensed for use by UNCG University Libraries. You and your students can view those films immediately, even though the banner about limited access may still appear at the top of the screen.

Other films on Kanopy now require you to fill out a request form like the one below. If you plan to assign or teach with a film that has a request form, please fill out this form as soon as possible.  A license for one film for a year is $135. 

Please include the course number in the Comments field on the form. 

·         We'll do our best to let you know if a film is available through our other streaming services which you can view at http://uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms.

·         The licensing process can take 3 days. 

Many large libraries, including NYPL and Stanford, found that Kanopy's pricing model made it impossible for them to continue the service as projected so our experience is definitely not unique. 

Other streaming video services, including Alexander Street, Films On Demand, Swank Digital Campus, and more have thousands of films available for immediate viewing.

If you would like to request a film that is not available from any of these collections, please contact Anne Owens arowens2@uncg.edu. 

Please be aware that arranging licenses can sometimes take many weeks. We'll do our best to have everything in place for your students, but the earlier you can let us know, the better! 

Instructors - Contribute to a streaming video focus group Tues 9/3/2019 or Weds 9/4/2019

Have you ever wanted  to let the University Libraries know what, as an instructor, you really want and need to incorporate streaming video into your courses?  Here is your chance! We are asking instructors who use the library streaming video services to participate in a focus group to give us your feedback. While participation is completely voluntary, responses will greatly help us help you.  Everyone participating in these focus group will receive a $10 Barnes & Noble gift card. 

The data shared from these focus groups will be in aggregate and anonymous form.  Individual responses with identities will only be viewed by the investigators and focus group facilitator on this research and all potential identifiers will not be associated with results.  Data will be stored securely in Box. Benefits include the improvement of UNCG university services and resources available to instructors and students using streaming video through the UNCG Libraries, as well as improved outreach and marketing of streaming video resources.  

Please fill out this form http://go.uncg.edu/fgfaculty  to sign up to join a focus group. You will receive a follow up email to let you know if you were selected (first come, in terms of space on the focus group) and confirm the date and time. Dates for the focus groups are:

Tuesday September 3rd from 12-1:15 (lunch provided

Wednesday September 4th from 2-3:15 (snacks provided)