Mendeley is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing databases. Mendeley makes it easy to save citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This virtual workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Mendeley such as: installing Mendeley, adding citations to your Mendeley library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Mendeley into your documents.
Events Calendar
Apr
14
12:00pm to 1:00pm
QGIS is geographic information system that allows users to plot and analyze geographic data, overlay sets of maps and converge them into one single map, and to create new maps for research, printing and publications. This virtual workshop will cover which QGIS versions to use, how add data to make your first map, geotagging address data into point locations that plot on a map, and how to create map contour lines from elevation data.
Apr
14
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Zotero is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing databases. Zotero makes it easy to save citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This virtual workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero such as: installing Zotero, adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents.
Apr
14
6:00pm to 7:00pm
This virtual workshop covers Excel basics such as good data entry practices, tips, and tricks for formatting data tables in Excel, and avoiding common formatting mistakes in Excel. The first workshop introduces you to tricks like using absolute and relative cell references to more easily modify data and discusses best practices in spreadsheet management.
Apr
16
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop series, WordPress for Digital Humanities. This workshop will introduce learners to digital humanities projects built with WordPress, identifying different elements of a WordPress website, setting up a website using UO Blogs, and making pages and menus.
Apr
21
12:00pm to 1:00pm
QGIS is geographic information system that allows users to plot and analyze geographic data, overlay sets of maps and converge them into one single map, and to create new maps for research, printing and publications. This virtual workshop will cover which QGIS versions to use, how add data to make your first map, geotagging address data into point locations that plot on a map, and how to create map contour lines from elevation data.
Apr
21
6:00pm to 7:00pm
This virtual workshop covers Excel basics such as good data entry practices, tips, and tricks for formatting data tables in Excel, and avoiding common formatting mistakes in Excel. The second workshop discusses the complexity of dates in spreadsheet programs, tricks for managing dates, and how to export your data to CSV for analysis in statistical software.
Apr
23
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This virtual workshop consists of two sessions focusing on the fundamentals of programming in Python. This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. This series lays the foundation for attendees to understand Python code and begin writing scripts that apply to their work.
Apr
23
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop series, WordPress for Digital Humanities. This workshop will introduce learners to adding text and images to the pages and posts, embedding video and documents, and basic accessibility considerations (use of headings, alt tags, colors, contrast, and type size).
Apr
28
6:00pm to 7:00pm
his virtual workshop covers Excel basics such as good data entry practices, tips, and tricks for formatting data tables in Excel, and avoiding common formatting mistakes in Excel. The final workshop in this series introduces data visualization best practices and how to build basic charts and graphs in Excel.
Apr
30
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This virtual workshop consists of two sessions focusing on the fundamentals of programming in Python. This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. This series lays the foundation for attendees to understand Python code and begin writing scripts that apply to their work.
Apr
30
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop series, WordPress for Digital Humanities. This workshop will introduce learners to customizing the WordPress themes to look certain ways and to widgets and plugin.
May
3
2:00pm to 4:30pm
Join us for this virtual workshop! Dedoose is a web-based qualitative data analysis application designed for mixed methods research. This allows for the analysis of research data that is both qualitative, such as text, audio, images, video, or quantitative data. You will learn how to upload documents and other media, create codes, code your documents and what descriptors are, and a bit about how to use them.
May
4
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Mendeley is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing databases. Mendeley makes it easy to save citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This virtual workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Mendeley such as: installing Mendeley, adding citations to your Mendeley library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Mendeley into your documents.
May
6
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Zotero is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing databases. Zotero makes it easy to save citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA. This virtual workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero such as: installing Zotero, adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents.
May
7
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This virtual workshop series introduces and demonstrates packages commonly used in data science, including NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib. This two part series will also expand on the basic concepts from the workshop series Introduction to Python.
May
7
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop series, WordPress for Digital Humanities. This workshop will introduce learners to digital humanities projects built with WordPress, identifying different elements of a WordPress website, setting up a website using UO Blogs, and making pages and menus.
May
12
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This virtual workshop series introduces and demonstrates packages commonly used in data science, including NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib. This two part series will also expand on the basic concepts from the workshop series Introduction to Python.
May
14
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop series, WordPress for Digital Humanities. This workshop will introduce learners to adding text and images to the pages and posts, embedding video and documents, and basic accessibility considerations (use of headings, alt tags, colors, contrast, and type size).
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Current Exhibits
Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition about ghosts and monsters in Japanese votive slips. Meet the ogres, demons, enchanted animals, and animated objects that haunt the UO’s world-class collection of senjafuda, little woodblock prints made to be collected and shared. Yōkai Senjafuda is led by Associate Professor Glynne Walley and co-sponsored by the JSMA and UO Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
From imperial robes and religious vestments to interior furnishings, this digital exhibition invites you to explore Chinese textiles from the collection of Gertrude Bass Warner, a unique treasure housed at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The Artful Fabric of Collecting is led by Associate Professor Ina Asim and co-sponsored by the JSMA and UO Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. The project includes filmed oral histories with 83 narrators, a digital exhibit, and a short documentary film.
Tekagami and Kyōgire is a digital exhibition featuring the collection of fragmented calligraphy at the University of Oregon. Follow Japanese calligraphy from the 8th to the 17th century in the tekagami, or “mirror of hands,” and its stunning display of virtuosity. Examine and celebrate this album of cultural reflection and innovation and its history as one of the treasures in the UO collections. Tekagami and Kyōgire is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The digital exhibition The March is the result of a collaborative project led by David A. Frank (Professor of Rhetoric and Mellon Faculty Fellow), the University of Oregon Libraries, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with individual contributions by members of both institutions (see below). This exhibition received inspiration and support from The James Blue Project, a research interest group at the University of Oregon devoted to creating a “living archive” from materials relating to the James Blue papers in UO Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.
Madness Outside In is a digital project that helps tell the story of Morningside Hospital in Portland during the 1950s and 60s and how tensions over psychiatry and evolving treatment for mental distress overlap with tensions about statehood, governance, expansion, land use, and the meanings of citizenship. Led by Professor Mary Wood, Department of English, and Professor Kristin Yarris, Department of Global Studies, the Madness Outside In curriculum is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon...
United Collections explores the similarities and differences between how museums and archives approach building, accessing, preserving, and digitizing collections using examples from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Special Collections and University Archives. The United Collections curriculum is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.