Registration for Fall 2015 Academic Technologies workshops is now open! This semester will offer opportunities to learn about ArcGIS, Esri Story Maps, Google Geo Tools (My Maps, Earth, and Fusion Tables), Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Sway, and Word), NVivo, SPSS, and more. Download a flyer (landscape (PDF) & portrait (PDF)) or view workshop descriptions and register here. Continue reading
The Office of Library Technology, in conjunction with the College of Engineering’s Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, recently announced the addition of MSC Nastran 2013 and MSC Patran 2013 to 16 Dell desktops in the Rodgers Library Scholars’ Station. Continue reading
During the 2014–15 academic year, the Libraries offered workshops on geospatial information systems software (ArcGIS), web mapping applications (Story Maps), data analysis software (Excel, NVivo, SAS, SPSS), and desktop publishing tools (InDesign, Publisher). Workshops on academic paper formatting and references in Microsoft Word were also offered, both in the classroom and online via Blackboard Collaborate.
In addition to enhancing skills, workshops offer opportunities for collaboration. I would like to recognize and extend my gratitude to the College of Education’s Dr. Sara Tomek, who partnered with the Libraries to offer a series of statistical analysis workshops, and the Department of Geography’s Dr. Steven Ericson, who led introductory and intermediate workshops on ArcGIS as well as two well-received Story Maps sessions.
Special thanks to Kim Smalley for serving as our Fall 2014 ArcGIS instructor in addition to her work in the Libraries’ Web Services department, and Cissy Xue, qualitative assistant for the College of Education’s Research Assistance Center, for teaching the Introduction to NVivo workshop in April.
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis package used to organize and analyze data in documents, audio, video, images, spreadsheets and database tables, literature reviews and bibliographies, web pages, social media content, and more. The software allows users to work with large amounts of data in many languages and supports a wide range of research methodologies. It is available in McLure Library. Continue reading
While this blog’s primary focus is the academic software installed on public computers in the UA Libraries, we occasionally highlight other library and campus services and spaces at the intersection of academics and technology. This post highlights an upcoming workshop offered by the Libraries’ Gorgas Information Services department.
Advanced SPSS: Correlation and Regression is a new addition to the statistical analysis workshop series presented by the University Libraries and the College of Education Research Assistance Center. Continue reading
The Introduction to SAS workshop returns this Friday at Rodgers Library. Continue reading
Introduction to ArcGIS returns to the Libraries next week. Continue reading
There will be two opportunities to learn about SAS this semester: next week’s Get to Know SAS and, in March, Introduction to SAS. Continue reading
University Libraries is conducting a survey to better understand how our campus community uses academic software for coursework and research. The libraries give students access to many high-level academic software applications, and survey responses will help the libraries offer additional instructional support for their use. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to click on this link to complete the brief, anonymous survey: http://bit.ly/ualibsurvey
