Events by month

November 2018

Thursday, November 1, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
blue ball of yarn unravelling

All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.

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.

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 15, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
blue ball of yarn unravelling

All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 — 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. 

Thursday, November 29, 2018 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
blue ball of yarn unravelling

All crafters are welcome! Bring your knitting, craftwork or just join us for a chat and a cup of tea.

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