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Fall 2024 Workshops @ Mann Library

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Check out our fall semester workshop schedule and make a game plan to level up your research skills! Click the links below to register for these live workshops. To see the full list of all Cornell University Library workshops, visit bit.ly/cul-workshops-spring24

In addition to the live workshops listed below, we also have a wide selection of pre-recorded workshops – including citation management software and research data management options – listed on our Workshops page. 

Introduction to Bloomberg

Over the course of the next couple weeks, Mann Library will be offering workshops for Bloomberg Professional. This is among the best financial databases available, and is widely used by finance and investment professionals. From company information, to analyst advice, to mergers and acquisitions, few resources have either the range or depth of information of Bloomberg. Give yourself an edge in the job search by learning to use this powerful and sophisticated research tool.

Introduction to Market Research

Understanding the consumer is essential for any successful business. Market research encompasses a number of aspects critical to understanding the consumer, ranging from their demographic make-up, to their attitudes and behavior regarding a product or service. This workshop will introduce attendees to the basics of market research, highlighting key concepts that dictate what information is available, and exposing attendees to Cornell’s top resources for discovering this information.

NEW! Using Your ORCID 

Thursday, September 12, 2024, 9:30-10:30am

Using your ORCID with Mike Priehs, Open Scholarship Specialist

Spend more time conducting your research than managing your research! ORCID is a free, unique, and persistent identifier (PID) for researchers. Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name; learn how to use your unique ORCID to link your funding, publications, data, and other research.

 

POSTPONED Introduction to Citation Management with EndNote (virtual)

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 12-1pm

Make your research life easier by learning how to manage your citations using a program like EndNote desktop. In this one hour hands-on workshop, learn how this free program organizes your citations and PDFs and formats citations & bibliographies in your Word documents with your preferred output style. No previous experience with the program is required, nor is it required to have EndNote to participate. Note: While EndNote is a commercial product that must be purchased, anyone in CALS or CHE may download a copy for free at either CHE: https://adminportal.human.cornell.edu/csg.reports/rptCsg.cfm (under Software) or CALS: https://cals.cornell.edu/faculty-staff/information-technology/how/endnote-cals.

 

How to Write a Data Management & Sharing Plan

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 9:30-10:30am

Many funders require a data management plan with a grant proposal. We’ll discuss the basics of preparing a data management & sharing plan, as well as tools and templates you can use to help and how to get free and confidential consultations and feedback on draft plans.

 

NEW! Introduction to Wikipedia Editing

Interested in improving the open educational content of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia? This session will get you started with the production side of Wikipedia, providing an overview of the basics of editing for new and beginning editors through a real-time, hands-on editing session. You don’t have to be an expert to contribute! Just come with an open mind and a willingness to contribute to public information.

NEW! Copyright & Author Rights

Thursday, September 26, 2024, 9:30-10:30am

Copyright & Author Rights with Mike Priehs, Open Scholarship Specialist

Yes, copyright can be confusing, but you do have rights! Many publishers will ask you to surrender more of your rights than are necessary for publication. You may find yourself unable to re-use portions of your articles in other publications or prevented from printing your writings for your own classes. Luckily, we can help you navigate these publishing agreements and empower you to take more control over your copyrights.

 

Systematic Reviews and Beyond: Getting Started with Evidence Synthesis

Are you interested in working on a systematic review, scoping review, or meta-analysis but don’t know where to start? The library can help! In this workshop, we’ll show you how to get your evidence synthesis project off the ground with the most up-to-date guidance and time-saving tools. Systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses can be complicated, but we’ll help you map out the project and develop a plan for each step so that the process is as efficient as possible. Along the way, experts in evidence synthesis methodologies will share their tips and advice for how to turn your research question into a rigorous, and publishable, evidence synthesis.

This workshop assumes a general grasp of evidence synthesis. If you are unfamiliar with evidence syntheses, please watch The Nuts & Bolts of Systematic Reviews prior to attending the workshop. For more information about how the library can support your evidence synthesis projects, check out our Evidence Synthesis Service page.

Intro to QGIS

Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 3-5pm

This workshop will cover basic tasks using QGIS: loading data, changing the styles used to display the data on a map, installing plugins, using processing tools to do basic analysis, and exporting a finished map image.

 

Data Publishing (and Citing)

Thursday, October 3, 2024, 9:30-10:30am

Data sharing is required by many funders and publishers and publishing data in a repository can help maximize research impact by making it easier for others to find and cite your research. We’ll cover tips, strategies for sharing, and resources available to you.

 

Introduction to Open Science Framework

Thursday, October 10, 2024, 9:30-10:30am

Collaboration tools can make practicing Open Science easier. Come explore and learn how the Open Science Framework allows you to build and develop projects, providing a centralized workspace while leveraging different tools for different parts of the project. Show Your Work. Share Your Work. Advance Science. That’s Open Science.

 

Communicating Your Research Through Comics

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12-1pm

Looking for a fun and unique way to communicate your research? Come and learn how to use comics to visually communicate scientific information – for conference posters, papers, and more. This is open to all skill levels, no experience drawing or graphics programs necessary!

 

Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro

Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 3-5pm

Learn the basics of video editing with Premiere Pro. This hands-on workshop will cover the essentials of post-production for video projects, as well as basic effects and color correction, and normalizing audio.

 

Power Searching: Developing a Search Strategy for Your Literature Review

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 12-1pm

Whether you’re new to searching academic databases or want help designing the most comprehensive search strategy possible, this workshop will help you get the most out of searching for academic literature. We will discuss the steps of turning your research question into a search strategy, and we’ll explore tips and tricks to make sure you are getting the most out of your online searching. In this workshop, we’ll focus on PubMed and Web of Science, but we’ll cover other databases and grey literature searching as well. The workshop will include hands-on practice and an opportunity for you to start designing your own search strategy.

Kickoff Coffee

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Kick-off Coffee

Tuesday, August 27

11am to 1pm

Mann Lobby

 

And we’re off into a new academic year!  Mann Library cordially invites our campus community to start the semester right with your librarians–come enjoy free coffee, button-making, coffee mug raffles, and other fun stuff. Of course we’ll have useful info for you, too. All are welcome–please join us to celebrate a fresh, good start to the fall 2024 semester! 

Mann Library Welcomes New Director

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ye Li joined Cornell University Library as the Director of the Science and Agriculture Libraries on July 29.

 

Ye has been the Librarian for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering at MIT since 2019. Prior to that, she worked as the Scholarly Communications and Instruction Librarian at the Colorado School of Mines, and as the Chemistry Librarian at the University of Michigan. While at MIT, Ye led a variety of teams, both within the library and across campus, seeking opportunities to collaborate and bringing people together for research and learning. Committed to open science and reproducible research, Ye has developed and led new projects and initiatives, such as Carpentries@MIT and library support for text and data mining, machine learning, and AI in science and engineering.

 

Ye is active in research and her work is reflected in a substantial list of peer-reviewed publications, as well as dozens of presentations and poster sessions. The recipient of many professional awards, Ye serves as a trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, is a past chair of the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society, and is a member of the Research Data Alliance, as well as serving in numerous additional national and regional associations and various publisher advisory groups.

 

Ye holds a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Beijing Normal University, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Iowa, and an M.A. in Library and Information Science, also from Iowa.

 

Please join us in welcoming Ye to Cornell University Library and the Cornell community! And stop by our Kickoff Coffee event on Tuesday, August 27, between 11am to 1pm in the Mann Library lobby for a chance to win a free reusable coffee mug and meet Ye in person!

Fall 2023 Chats in the Stacks

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Be sure to mark your calendars for our fall semester book talks! This semester, our Chats in the Stacks will be held in-person in Mann Library 160 and livestreamed. You can find all recordings of our past Chats in the Stacks on our YouTube channel.

 

Thursday, September 14, 4pm

Mann Library, Room 160 and livestreamed

Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping’s Most Essential Items and Activities

Martin Hogue, associate professor of landscape architecture, will discuss his new book Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping’s Most Essential Items and Activities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023), in which he traces the radical transformation of recreational camping from the late nineteenth-century wilderness camp to our contemporary campgrounds with dense rows of individually numbered campsites. Utilizing drawings, patents, diagrams, sketches, paintings, advertisements, and historical photographs, Hogue shares the individual histories of key components that define this familiar and often generic spatial setting: the campsite, the campfire, the picnic table, the campground map, the tent, and the sleeping bag, as well as water distribution and trash collection systems. Hogue also argues that it is the subtle interplay between these various components—some already in place upon arrival, others imported by each occupant—that helps ensure the illusion that campers retain some agency in making their own camp. 

 

Thursday, September 28, 4pm

Mann Library, Room 160 and livestreamed

In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis

How can one person have a real impact on something as large as the climate crisis? In her new book In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis (Cornell University Press, 2023) Marianne E. Krasny weaves together scholarly insights on behavioral and structural change with concrete examples of climate-forward initiatives to demonstrate practical ways individuals can connect with others to inspire hope and effect widespread change. Krasny, professor and director of graduate studies in natural resources and the environment, and director of the Cornell Civic Ecology Lab, will distill research on how to scale up individual climate actions–such as eating a plant-rich diet or advocating for climate policies–through Network Climate Action, or the leveraging of close-tie social networks that take climate action together. 

 

Thursday, October 19, 4pm

Mann Library, Room 160, and livestreamed

The Courage to Learn: Honoring the Complexity of Learning for Educators and Students

It takes openness and true bravery to be able to learn, according to Marcia Eames-Sheavly, senior extension associate and senior lecturer emerita in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section. Eames-Sheavly will discuss her new co-authored book The Courage to Learn: Honoring the Complexity of Learning for Educators and Students (Stylus Publishing, 2023). Eames-Sheavly will explore the work’s implications for educational practice, how to help find and nurture courage in learners, as well as ask the audience to engage in conversation around these fundamental questions: How do we learn? Why is it necessary? What motivates us? And, who is the self that learns?

 

Thursday, November 2, 4pm

Mann Library, Room 160 and livestreamed

Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters

There is magic just outside your door, says Angela E. Douglas, Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor Emerita of Insect Physiology and Toxicology in the Department of Entomology. In her new book, Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2023), Douglas explores the many joys and curiosities of her own upstate New York yard, cultivated with nothing more advanced than “strategic neglect.” Douglas will share the simple pleasures of paying attention, and celebrate the important role even humble backyards can play in conservation efforts, and in our appreciation of the natural world. 

New Student Welcome Week @ Mann!

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Library Orientation kicks off on Monday, August 14 and Tuesday, August 15 with the Big Red Welcome Fest on Ho Plaza! Library staff from across campus will be there tabling and greeting new students (and their families) from 11am to 3pm each day.

 

Mann Library tours and welcome for new students will also be on Monday and Tuesday. Tours will depart at 10am, 11am, 1pm and 2pm. And you’ll find our welcome tent on the Tsujimoto Family Plaza, on the Ag Quad, from 12 to 2pm each day. Join us for snacks, helpful info, swag, and a fun fiber arts DIY activity!

Monday, August 14 and Tuesday, August 15

Mann Library Tour

Depart from Mann Lobby; 30 mins

10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm

Why do our students tell us that Albert R. Mann Library is their home away from home? Come on our tour to find out! You’ll learn the top 10 things you need to know about Mann Library as an incoming student and get to explore one of the country’s best library collections in agriculture, life sciences, human ecology, and other related disciplines. And don’t miss our door prizes—they’ll be fun and have good info for you too! Families welcome. Tours run approximately 30 minutes and include a Q&A.

 

Mann Library Icebreaker & Fiber Arts DIY

Tsujimoto Family Plaza, Ag Quad

12 to 2pm

Get to know more about your library at the Mann Library Icebreaker on the Ag Quad! Join us at our tent on the Tsujimoto Family Plaza for some light refreshments, helpful info, and a fun DIY fiber arts activity. We’ll provide materials for creating hand-stamped bandanas (or bring your own clothes for a fun refresh). And if your own creations have you feeling inspired, be sure to check out our textile-themed exhibits, Threading the Needle: Weaving Traditions into Contemporary Textile Art (Mann Gallery, 2nd floor) and Sustaining Style: Towards Responsible Fashion (Mann lobby). Families welcome.

 

Wednesday, August 16 and Thursday, August 17

Mann Library Tour & Scavenger Hunt

Depart from Mann Lobby; 30 mins

2pm, 3pm, 4pm

Why do our students tell us that Albert R. Mann Library is their home away from home? Come on our tour to find out! You’ll learn the top 10 things you need to know about Mann Library as an incoming student and get to explore one of the country’s best library collections in agriculture, life sciences, human ecology, and other related disciplines. Use the insider knowledge you’ll gain on our tour to complete the scavenger hunt challenge and win some fun Mann Library swag!

 

For the full schedule of all library orientation events, including library tours, please visit our library orientation webpage. On this webpage, we’ve highlighted the resources and services we think you’ll find most useful, whether you’re a new or returning undergraduate, graduate student, or faculty member. Learn more about our collections, research services, teaching support, skill-building opportunities, and publishing services.

Fall 2023 Course Reserves at Mann Library

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Attention faculty and instructors! Did you miss the August 7th deadline for course reserves? You’re not too late! If you want to provide your students access to library materials for the 2023 Fall semester, please submit your requests by Monday, August 14. 

  • Electronic resources, including textual and media materials, can be made available via your Canvas course
  • Physical materials will be available for self-service at Mann Library. Materials are for in-library use with overnight checkout possible within 2 hours of closing
  • If you are using required textbooks for undergraduates through the bookstore’s CAMP program, we can place those titles on Course Reserves for students who opt out of CAMP
  • If items you want to use are not placed on reserve early, then students as well as patrons of Borrow Direct and Interlibrary Loan will be able to borrow the holdings from our collection
  • If you choose to have departmental copies of books on reserve, we ask that you arrange to have the books taken back to your department at the end of the semester

We’ve made some changes for streaming media—you have a couple of options for submitting course reserves media requests:

  1. You can submit item requests via the Library Reserves section of your course’s Canvas page, making sure to specify that you need streaming access (where available), or
  2. You may send us a list or syllabus at culmediareserves@cornell.edu, ideally including all of the following information:
    • Course number, including any cross-listed courses
    • Section number, if applicable to differentiate from other sections
    • SIS ID, which can be found in the Settings section of your course’s Canvas page
    • The date(s) when the material will be used in your course

If you have any questions, please contact us via email at mann_reserve@cornell.edu. It’s helpful to include the class number in correspondence. For streaming media questions, please contact culmediareserves@cornell.edu.

Mann’s Graduate Study Area Gets an Upgrade!

Study pods, collaborative booths, private carrels, and much more!
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Soft seating and study pods in graduate study area

Mann Library’s refurbished graduate study area – which includes both the David R. Atkinson Graduate Student Study Room and the Joseph and Geraldine McManus Study Room – is located on the library’s 3rd floor. The renovation of this space was concluded in early 2020 and now provides furniture and technology conducive to a wide range of work styles. From private study pods and carrels, to counter-height open tables, to collaborative booths and docking stations, Mann has a variety of furniture options to meet the needs of graduate students. Graduate students can reserve desks and study seats ahead of time on the library’s Find a Space webpage: mann.library.cornell.edu/find-a-space.

 

In line with principles of user-centered design for library spaces, graduate students from across campus had a direct hand in shaping the area’s facilities upgrade, providing feedback via interviews and journey mapping exercises. In addition to the gratitude we owe to the students who provided this invaluable input, Mann gratefully acknowledges the gift that made this important renovation possible: a bequest from our generous friend, the late Mary A. Morrison (1921-2017), who was professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell from 1960 to 1988.

We also have lockers in the graduate study area that are available for loan by the semester – please inquire at our Help Desk. In addition to the graduate study area, we have five graduate study rooms elsewhere on the 3rd floor. These are individual study rooms that are reservable for up to 8 hours at a time and are limited to graduate students only. These can be reserved at spaces.library.cornell.edu/reserve/mann-grad-study.

 

Head up to the 3rd floor on your next visit to Mann Library and check out all the new study space options. Your new favorite study spot is waiting to be discovered!

Row of desks in graduate study area

New Mann Staff — Fall 2022

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Please join us in welcoming the newest Mann staff members who have started at the library within the last six months!

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Diana Hackett, Digital Literacy Librarian

Diana joined the Mann Library Instruction team on April 11 as our Digital Literacy Librarian. She holds an M.A. in Library and Information Studies from University College London, and an M.A. and B.A. in English Literature, both from the University of Sheffield. Prior to joining Cornell University Library, Diana was most recently an academic librarian in the UK, where she worked for 3 years as an Assistant Librarian in a social sciences library at Nuffield College.

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Ten Van Winkle, Multimedia Support Specialist

Ten started at Mann Library on June 2 as our Multimedia Support Specialist. Prior to joining Mann, Ten worked at the SC Johnson College Office of Diversity and Inclusion as their Office and Program Coordinator. Ten is also the chair of the Young Professionals Colleague Network Group (CNG) at Cornell. Previously, they worked as a Legal Assistant and Client Services Coordinator for a law firm and continue to work as a freelance art instructor in the Ithaca area. Ten graduated from Cornell with a B.S. in Communications (‘12).

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Robin Gee, Critical Pedagogy & Equity Librarian

Robin started at Mann on August 15 as the Critical Pedagogy & Equity Librarian. This position is part of the Library’s first cluster hire in Critical Information Literacy as part of our efforts to foster collaboration across library instruction programs and build library-wide interest in critical information literacy. Robin comes to us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where they recently completed their MLIS.

Mann Library Tours & New Student Welcome

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Mann Library Tour & New Student Welcome

Monday, August 15 – Wednesday, August 17, 12-2pm

Tours depart from the Mann Lobby every 30 minutes

 

Why do our students tell us that Albert R. Mann Library is their home away from home? Come to our tour to find out! Explore one of the country’s best library collections in life sciences, human ecology, and other related disciplines, and discover all the tools we offer. And don’t miss our door prizes—they’ll be fun and have good info for you too! Families are welcome. Tours run approx. 30 minutes and include a Q&A.

 

Didn’t register for a tour? No problem! Feel free to join us during any time slot that works for you. We look forward to meeting you!

Threading the Needle: Call for Fiber & Fashion Art

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The exhibit, Threading the Needle: Weaving Traditions into Contemporary Textile Art at Mann Library’s Gallery will present artists that blur the line between craft and art and turn traditionally feminine arts into visual storytelling by using combinations of stitching, quilting, embroidery, mending, remaking, refashioning, upcycling and other textile crafts.

 

Threading the Needle features pieces that draw on these traditional textile techniques, with a particular focus on the work of artists incorporating ideas of social and/or environmental sustainability and inclusive practices or themes. These contemporary pieces will be exhibited alongside selections from Cornell University Library’s Home Economics Archive: Research, Traditions, History (HEARTH) database as a means to connect current artwork to historical sources while reimagining those sources for the future.

 

Application Requirements

  • 2-5 example images of work and an accompanying one paragraph long statement about each piece. Submit at least one image for each piece, and not more than two. Images should be labeled as LastName_FirstName_Title.jpeg. (e.g. Smith_John_seaming.jpeg). Statements should be labeled LastName_FirstName_Title_Statement.jpeg.

If you are submitting one piece for consideration, two of the images should be of the piece you are submitting, others can reflect your overall work. Submit one statement.

 

If you are submitting multiple pieces for consideration, images should be of each piece you are submitting, and one statement should accompany each piece. Make clear which piece goes with which statement.

 

If you are submitting a series of work, images should be of all the pieces in that series. Submit one statement for the series.

 

NOTE: Depending on space availability and a desire to represent different artists it’s possible only one piece may be selected for display even when multiple pieces or a series are submitted.

 

  • Bio or CV
  • Submissions should be sent to: mann-public-ed-prog@cornell.edu
  • Artists who submit an entry and images to Cornell University Library agree to have images of their work appear on the website for the exhibit and programming materials.

Timeline

  • Application Deadline: September 30, 2022
  • Artist Notification: November 15, 2022
  • Submission must be received by January 6, 2023

Exhibit opening: March 2023