Thursday, December 13, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 — 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST
Join your Library colleagues and retirees for refreshments and door prizes!
Party time = work time.
This is a scent-free celebration.
Monday, December 10, 2018 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Are you looking for a more environmentally friendly way to wrap your gifts this season? Your Green Office team invites you to make some reusable fabric gift bags with us. We will provide fabric and drawstring cords, as well as a tutorial on how to make the bags. They are a quick project, so please feel free to drop in whenever you can.
You can participate in this event in three ways:
Friday, December 7, 2018 — 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM EST
Diversity, accessibility, and equity are more than buzzwords: as public institutions, they should be the cornerstones of all that we do. This year, the theme for Scholars Portal Day is Investing in Inclusiveness. Join the conversation about how we can sustainably design and build our services, collections, and spaces, both digital and in-person, with inclusion at the core.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 — 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
Have 3D printers become commonplace? Is someone in your library using pizza boxes to create their next-generation VR viewer? Perhaps you’re wondering just how sophisticated (and how spacious) a Maker Space needs to be these days. What are the expectations from students and faculty? What tools and services need to be part of a library’s maker space?
There will be a recording available after the event.
Thursday, November 29, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 — 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST
Staff are welcome to stay from 2:30 to 3 p.m. to discuss Scopus in more depth with Elsevier, or to ask other Scopus-related questions.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 — 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.
This hands-on, technical workshop will appeal to individuals anticipating the need to use SciVal on a regular basis to search for, and extract, research impact data.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 — 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.
This session will appeal to a general audience having an interest in exploring research impact data, for example: analysts, librarians, research assistants, researchers, senior management, etc.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 — 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.
This hands-on, technical workshop will appeal to individuals anticipating the need to use SciVal on a regular basis to search for, and extract, research impact data.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 — 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
The University of Waterloo recently subscribed to SciVal, a very powerful tool allowing you to: visualize research performance, benchmark against peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify & analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.
This session will appeal to a general audience having an interest in exploring research impact data, for example: analysts, librarians, research assistants, researchers, senior management, etc.
Friday, November 23, 2018 — 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
All staff are invited to join the Knitting Club fundraising event for the United Way.
Knitting and crocheting classes for beginners
Pick up a hook, some needles and learn how to "play" with no limits. Members of the UWaterloo Knit Collective will teach you the basics of knitting or crocheting - your choice!
Whether you are an absolute novice or you want to refresh some rusty skills, these beginner classes will get you going:
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Leave your pretty GUIs at home, kids! Graham Faulkner is going off-road data wrangling, with only a few Python tools and his native wit to survive. Watch him:
- create fake data with csvfaker
- create a database from CSV with his bare hands (and csvs-to-sqlite)
- review data in the browser with Datasette
- extract tabular data from PDFs with Camelot
We’re not in Excel now, Toto! This is one you won’t want to miss.
Thursday, November 15, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 — 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
This NISO webinar will look at bias awareness and the difficulties of appropriately valuing diversity in a work environment.
Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
One of the issues preventing greater instructor involvement in open education is professional recognition; they question whether the effort required will be rewarded. Top-down signs of support (e.g. acknowledging open educational practices in tenure and promotion) are rare; bottom-up activism feels like an uphill battle. Can anything be done? In this webinar, panelists will identify signs of progress and discuss where open educators might best concentrate their efforts to make a difference in institutional policy.
Thursday, November 1, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 — 12:30 AM to 2:30 PM EDT
Launched in May 2017, ORCID-CA provides Canadian institutions and organizations with premium membership to ORCID at a reduced cost as well as access to dedicated support services.
The online forum will be an occasion to share the latest ORCID news with the Canadian community. The forum will also provide an opportunity for stakeholders to engage with ORCID-CA and work together to develop a vision moving forward for ORCID in Canada.
Program Highlights:
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Over the past year, Library managers have been working in partnership with Human Resources to increase consistency of practice regarding performance reviews and ratings. Those of you who were with us in January 2018 will have already seen the email below that introduced this initiative. For those who missed the two open sessions in August, this mini-session will give you an opportunity to learn more about the compensation process.
Monday, October 22, 2018 (all day) to Wednesday, October 31, 2018 (all day)
The Library's most popular United Way fundraiser gets better every year! Watch this spot for more information.
Contact Sarah Martin if you have an item to donate to the auction.
Thursday, October 18, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 — 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Finding the funding, Part two: Strategic approaches to funding scholarly initiatives
Aside from funding libraries themselves, there are many innovative projects that might never be accomplished without the support of grants from foundations of various sizes and sorts. What are the current trends? The speakers in this event will identify and examine those trends and share what their impact on the academic environment might be.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
Collaborative Futures orientation sessions:
This OCUL/Ex Libris orientation session is intended for the core implementation team and functional leads, but others are welcome to sit-in if interested. Core implementation team members and members of the expert advisory network are encouraged to view the prerequisites in advance (see October 4 email from Alison Hitchens for more information). Recordings will be made available at a later date.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Search, manipulate and transform any bibliographic data set instantly!
Have you ever needed to:
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Support the United Way and your mental and physical wellness with yoga sessions led by Kathy MacDonald.
Details:
Classes will be held on June 19, July 24, August 14, September 18 and October 16.
There is a maximum of 10 attendees per session, so sign up early!
Cost is $5/class or $20 for all 5 classes. Pay at the door or in advance to
Sandra Keys or Sarah Martin.
