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Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 10:00am – 11:00pm
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Hey, undergraduates and grad students: set yourself up for success with this introduction to the University of Missouri Libraries! Get the basics on our locations, services, and collections, and learn some handy tips, tricks, and tools for getting started with college-level research. Ask questions, get answers! Presented by Abbie Brown, Instructional Services Librarian.
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
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Creative Commons licenses give everyone a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for their creative works, and allow others to copy, share, and customize those works. Learn the basics of the six CC licenses, how to apply those licenses to your own creative works, and how to find CC-licensed images, videos, music, and other media that you can use in your classes, projects, and research.
Presented by Joe Askins, Head of Instructional Services at the University of Missouri Libraries.
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Are your students struggling with the cost of course materials? Would you like the freedom and flexibility to customize the content of textbooks and other learning objects to better align with your lessons and assignments? Open educational resources, or OER, are free, openly licensed educational materials that provide alternatives to traditional textbooks. Learn more about campus resources that can help you find, create, and use high-quality OER.
Presented by Joe Askins, Head of Instructional Services at the University of Missouri Libraries.
Related LibGuide: Open Educational Resources (OER) by Joe Askins
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2022
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Hey, undergraduates and grad students: set yourself up for success with this introduction to the University of Missouri Libraries! Get the basics on our locations, services, and collections, and learn some handy tips, tricks, and tools for getting started with college-level research. Ask questions, get answers! Presented by Abbie Brown, Instructional Services Librarian.
Date: Monday, February 21, 2022
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Note: This is an external event and is not hosted by the MU Libraries.
Getting and using your free ORCID iD and ORCID record can help you save time and get credit for your work in funding, publishing, and research reporting workflows. Funding organizations, publishers, and research institutions are increasingly requiring or asking for ORCID iDs from researchers, so this workshop, hosted by LYRASIS, will help you make sure you are ahead of the game.
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Related LibGuide: Maximizing your research identity and impact by Janice Dysart
The MU Libraries provide instruction and support to researchers interested in using ORCID iDs.
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Learn how to effectively use researcher profiles and scholarly communications networks to develop and manage your online scholarly presence. Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact.
Presented by Janice Dysart, Science Librarian, MU Libraries, and Rebecca Graves, Educational Services Librarian, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library.
Date: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Time: 3pm – 4pm
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The University Libraries’ collections are expansive: along with the millions of books housed in our campus libraries and off-site depository, we have access to millions of scholarly and popular articles through a multitude of subscriptions to databases and electronic journals.
When engaging with such a complex and multi-faceted body of materials, it’s natural to have questions: How can I tell whether the Libraries have access to a specific journal? Where can I obtain a copy of a book that our Libraries don’t own? And why is that article that I could access yesterday no longer available?
Learn more about the size, scope, and entryways into our collections in this webinar, designed especially for faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers.
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
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Citation management software helps researchers organize PDFs and notes and generate citations and bibliographies in a variety of publishing styles. The three citation managers the library teaches–Zotero, EndNote Basic and Mendeley–all have different strengths and weaknesses. This webinar previews each citation manager and explains the key features and differences between them.
Date: Friday, January 28, 2022
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Hey, undergraduates and grad students: set yourself up for success with this introduction to the University of Missouri Libraries! Get the basics on our locations, services, and collections, and learn some handy tips, tricks, and tools for getting started with college-level research. Ask questions, get answers! Presented by Abbie Brown, Instructional Services Librarian.
Thursday, January 27
4 p.m.
Online
Join MU Libraries and the University of Missouri Press for their first Book Talk of the year. Benjamin Moore, Professor Emeritus of English and founder and former Director of the Bosnia Memory Project at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, will discuss his recently published book, The Names of John Gergen, Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis.
Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house, the yellowing scraps of a young migrant’s schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century. These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary—they were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German.
Between 1900 and 1920, the St. Louis neighborhoods occupied by migrants were sites of efforts by civic authorities and social reformers to counter the perceived threat of foreignness by attempting to Americanize foreign-born residents. At the same time, these neighborhoods saw the strengthening of Banat Swabians’ ethnic identities. Historically, scholars and laypeople have understood migrants in terms of their aspirations and transformations, especially their transformations into Americans. The experiences of John Gergen and his kin, however, suggest that identity at the level of the individual was both more fragmented and more fluid than twentieth-century historians have recognized, subject to a variety of forces that often pulled migrants in multiple directions.
Event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.