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In addition to the in-person sessions listed below, you may also be interested in the IT4U Webinars offered by ITS. You can either attend the live webinar or review it later at your convenience.

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New Federal Public Access Policy Requirements for Published Research

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-04-2025
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Status: Open
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Each U.S. federal funding agency has its own policies and processes for making federally funded research publicly accessible making for a confusing landscape for researchers and administrative staff. This workshop will provide grantees and administrative staff with: A clear understanding of the New Public Access Policy for different federally funding agencies for major funders of Engineering  Research An explanation of the policies, who and what … Continue reading New Federal Public Access Policy Requirements for Published Research »

12:00 pm-1:00 pm 11/04/2025 Open

Captioning Workshop

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-06-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-1:50 pm
Status: Open
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Properly captioning video and audio for Title II compliance

1:00 pm-1:50 pm 11/06/2025 Open
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Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-07-2025
Time: 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
Status: Open
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Tackle writing your research papers, conference abstracts, and even your thesis or dissertation with greater ease! This online workshop explores powerful but often-overlooked features in Google Docs and Microsoft Word that streamline writing, formatting, and organization. You’ll also learn how to enhance document accessibility, ensuring your work meets WCAG 2.1 and ADA guidelines. This session will be valuable for anyone engaged in complex academic writing … Continue reading Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word »

12:00 pm-12:50 pm 11/07/2025 Open

Research in International Studies: An Introduction to Library Resources and Search Strategies

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-07-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Status: Open
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Join Asia Library and International Studies subject specialists for a session designed for faculty and graduate students in area and global studies! Searching for research materials in non-English languages and non-Latin scripts presents unique challenges. We’ll demonstrate practical techniques for the library catalog and similar tools to help you conduct searches more effectively and efficiently. In addition, we will introduce complementary library resources, services, and … Continue reading Research in International Studies: An Introduction to Library Resources and Search Strategies »

1:00 pm-2:00 pm 11/07/2025 Open

Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps

Sponsor(s): Clark Library, UM Library
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Date: 11-10-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Status: Full
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Your research tells a story! StoryMaps is one of the most commonly used GIS resources on our campus across disciplines. This workshop will be an introduction to what StoryMaps are and whether one is right for your project. There will be time for Questions and Answers at the end where we can talk about participants’ specific projects, but this is not required. This session will … Continue reading Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps »

1:00 pm-2:00 pm 11/10/2025 Full

Sharing and Preserving Your Scholarship in the U-M Library’s Deep Blue Repositories

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-11-2025
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Status: Open
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U-M Library’s repositories, Deep Blue Documents and Deep Blue Data, provide access and preservation services for the research, teaching, learning, and creativity created by U-M researchers on all campuses. These free repositories can help you preserve and publicly share your scholarly works. This session gives an overview of each repository, including how to determine which repository best meets your needs. Learning outcomes After attending this … Continue reading Sharing and Preserving Your Scholarship in the U-M Library’s Deep Blue Repositories »

12:00 pm-1:00 pm 11/11/2025 Open

Fit check: Is ICPSR suitable for your data?

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-13-2025
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Status: Open
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Ever wondered if ICPSR is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about ICPSR, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include demos and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions and answers. Instructors … Continue reading Fit check: Is ICPSR suitable for your data? »

11:00 am-12:00 pm 11/13/2025 Open

ARDRI 101: Introduction to Anti-Racist Digital Scholarship

Sponsor(s): LSA Technology Services, UM Library
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Date: 11-13-2025
Time: 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Status: Open
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Got an idea for a digital project but not sure how to get it off the ground? Curious about how to do digital scholarship research while navigating an increasingly uncertain, unethical, and biased digital world? This workshop covers an introduction to Anti-racist research frameworks and digital scholarship principles. Participants will leave the workshop with a road map for developing an ethical, sustainable, and justice-oriented digital … Continue reading ARDRI 101: Introduction to Anti-Racist Digital Scholarship »

2:00 pm-3:30 pm 11/13/2025 Open

Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 11-17-2025
Time: 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
Status: Open
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You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from the Library will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

12:00 pm-12:50 pm 11/17/2025 Open
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Designing Effective Research Presentation Posters

Sponsor(s): School of Information, UM Library
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Date: 11-20-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-1:50 pm
Status: Open
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In this session, we’ll review design considerations for creating clear and eye-catching research presentation posters. We emphasize understanding the goal of your presentation and tailoring the poster to help you tell that story. While this workshop focuses on general principles, we’ll also discuss a few applications for creating a poster, like Illustrator and PowerPoint and their pros & cons. Lastly, we provide additional resources and … Continue reading Designing Effective Research Presentation Posters »

1:00 pm-1:50 pm 11/20/2025 Open
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Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 12-03-2025
Time: 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
Status: Open
Description:

Tackle writing your research papers, conference abstracts, and even your thesis or dissertation with greater ease! This online workshop explores powerful but often-overlooked features in Google Docs and Microsoft Word that streamline writing, formatting, and organization. You’ll also learn how to enhance document accessibility, ensuring your work meets WCAG 2.1 and ADA guidelines. This session will be valuable for anyone engaged in complex academic writing … Continue reading Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word »

12:00 pm-12:50 pm 12/03/2025 Open

Fit check: Is OSF suitable for your data?

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 12-04-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Status: Open
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Ever wondered if Open Science Framework (OSF) is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about OSF, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include demos and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions … Continue reading Fit check: Is OSF suitable for your data? »

1:00 pm-2:00 pm 12/04/2025 Open

Visual Descriptions Workshop

Sponsor(s): UM Library
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Date: 12-04-2025
Time: 1:00 pm-1:50 pm
Status: Open
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Learn the best practices for creating descriptive audio.

1:00 pm-1:50 pm 12/04/2025 Open

Remote Sensing 101

Sponsor(s): Clark Library, UM Library
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Date: 12-10-2025
Time: 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Status: Open
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What is Remote Sensing? The discipline of remote sensing concerns processing and analysis of any imagery obtained from satellites, drones, or other airborne sensors. Remote sensing tools and best practices can be used to investigate land use change, check agricultural crop yields, monitor wildfires, and more. This session will introduce basic concepts used in the discipline of remote sensing such as image collection and interpretation, … Continue reading Remote Sensing 101 »

2:00 pm-3:00 pm 12/10/2025 Open