Managing your citations and documents with Zotero
Date: Aug. 28, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: 224 Witt Room (Love Library South)
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero
Date: Aug. 28, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero-virtual-8-28
Date: Sept. 3, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: 224 Witt Room (Love Library South)
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero-9-3
Date: Sept. 4, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero-virtual-9-4
Date: Oct. 16, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: 224 Witt Room (Love Library South)
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero-10-16
Date: Oct. 16, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Virtual
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/zotero-virtual-10-16
Presenter: Erica DeFrain
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Staff, Undergraduate Students
The UNL Libraries is pleased to provide UNL members with unlimited cloud storage to Zotero, a citation management tool that can help you organize, cite, store, and share your research bibliographies. In this workshop, librarian Erica DeFrain will provide an overview of Zotero, help participants get started using it, and answer any questions participants might have.
Materials:
Zotero: https://zotero.org
Presentation materials: https://unl.libguides.com/zotero
Installation instructions: https://www.zotero.org/support/installation
Introduction to Advanced Review Methodologies
Date: Sept. 4, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Elle Covington
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Undergraduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/event/14855743
Learn the difference between systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and qualitative evidence syntheses. This workshop will discuss the similarities and differences between them and when it might be appropriate to use one over the other. Learn how the literature distinguishes between them to make your review more publishable. Participants will learn how to choose the right methodology for the research question they are asking, and how to tailor a research question to match the methodology they’d like to use.
ArcGIS Online: Maps for Everyone
Date: Sept. 9, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Location: 224 Witt Room (Love Library South)
Presenter: Wenjie Wang
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/arcgisonline25fall
This workshop introduces GIS through an easy to understand and practical tool using only a web browser. ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based mapping and analysis solution, which can be used to create stylish, fully interactive maps or web map applications. Tailored for entry-level researchers, this engaging session aims to equip participants with essential skills to seamlessly connect tabular information to geographic representations. Attendees will gain hands-on experience linking tabular census data to a map. Additionally, you will learn to “georeference” an image by using media layers, which are intended for quick visual overlays.
Introducing SANDY, UNL’s Data Repository
Date: Sept. 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Leslie Delserone
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Staff
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/SANDY
Learn how to share research data via SANDY, UNL’s data repository, in a live demo and Q&A session. Register to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.
Introduction to comprehensive searching
Date: Oct. 2, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Elle Covington
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Undergraduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/event/14855767
Learn how to strengthen your search skills with comprehensive search techniques informed by systematic review methodology. This will be a highly interactive workshop, so bring your projects in progress. We will discuss strategies for creating a more robust search within the electronic databases with techniques like index searching, test searches, and term scoping. We will discuss supplementary search strategies like citation chasing and when Google Scholar can be most helpful to you. As interest dictates, we will additionally cover where and how to search for grey literature.
Essentials of Data Management for Graduate Students
Date: Oct. 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Leslie Delserone
Audience: Graduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/DM-for-grads
Learn how to successfully manage your research data and create a personal data management plan. Register to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.
Prepare Your Data For Openness
Date: Oct. 24, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Scout Calvert
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Staff
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/oa-data-25
Adopting open data practices can improve collaboration, safeguard data, and help researchers get ahead of data sharing requirements from funders and publishers. Data sharing and transparency can benefit science and increase researcher impact. But what does it take to make data genuinely open? This presentation will provide strategies for meaningfully open data, offer choices in data sharing, describe some limitations of openness, and help researchers get a jump start preparing data for openness.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link in the confirmation email. Attendees must be authenticated through UNL Zoom to join the meeting. To register, visit:
Prepare Now for Your Personal Digital Dark Age
Date: Nov. 6, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Scout Calvert
Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral, Public, Staff, Undergraduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/wdpd-24
All digital files are vulnerable to decay and loss. Sometimes a hard drive fails or a file becomes corrupted. But we can also lose files due to bad data management habits, obsolete technology, or, paradoxically, because we have too many copies and too many storage options. It is easy to overlook the digital photos, documents, and other files we create in daily life, in our personal research, and in our citizen science and historian scholarship. This workshop helps participants identify their most valuable computer files and create a plan for backup, self-curation, and preservation. Side effects may include improved ability to find and share files, and more restful sleep at night. Research Data Librarian Scout Calvert hosts this workshop in recognition of World Digital Preservation Day.
AI and Society Conversation Series: Accountable Algorithms and AI
Date: Nov. 14, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Presenter: Scout Calvert
Audience: Graduate Students, Staff, Undergraduate Students
Register: https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/ai-and-society-3
Are you trying to figure out how to think about Artificial Intelligence beyond the hype and doom? This AI & Society Conversation Series will start with the nuts and bolts of AI and offer tools for thinking about AI, algorithms, and other technologies. Sign up for the conversation topics that interest you. Registrants will receive a link with an accessible resource (reading, video, or podcast) and reflection questions to prepare for the session. During each session, a brief introduction to the topic will be followed by facilitated discussion and opportunities for Q&A.
This session will discuss different efforts to ensure that artificial intelligence tools are responsible and transparent.