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The Library provides a series of university-wide, open workshops to teach how to find, evaluate, organize, and analyze information and data. The Library also provides instructional workshops of academic databases, citation management tools, and data and visualization analysis tools.
Below is a list of workshops offered by DKU Library. Links to recordings (if available) will be updated or removed periodically to ensure the currency of the contents. NetID sign-in is required in order to view the recordings.
Session: August 29, 2025
This workshop helps students acquire knowledge and skills to search for appropriate information for academic research and offers guidance on using AI to brainstorm and discover new research areas.
Session: September 5, 2025
This workshop helps students to learn how to select and evaluate information sources with structured frameworks (CRAAP, ROBOT).
Session: September 12, 2025
This workshop helps students find and read datasets using effective discovery strategies, assess data quality, and apply proper citation to datasets.
Session: September 19, 2025
This workshop talks about AI’s key challenges, the policies shaping its use, and practical techniques for creating effective prompts.
Session: September 26, 2025
This workshop explores the basics of copyright, plagiarism, and academic integrity, while also engaging with real-world cases of AI ethics disputes and lawsuits.
Session: October 25, 2024
This workshop delves into the principles of prompt engineering to enhance users’ ability to utilize large language models (LLMs) effectively. Participants will learn how to craft precise and effective prompts to guide LLMs in generating accurate and relevant responses.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/tanz9soo3pf6tkdzk3opo5jq7htru7xt
Session: January 24, 2025
DKU Library collaborates with DKU AI Club to introduce participants to the foundational principles of prompt engineering and demonstrate its practical applications through interactive experiences. Through hands-on activities, students will explore how prompt engineering can enhance various everyday tasks, including academic writing, planning, learning, and health management.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/8p3ss41ee4pk7kc3zowudew3avfkownq
Session: November 1, 2024
This workshop provides an in-depth look at the mechanisms behind AI tools for literature search, including Scite, Consensus, Elicit, and others, demonstrating how they can enhance research by offering unique advantages but also limitations.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/34b3gj14pcj8ph4tcmlmruna0loj6cuh
Session: January 26, 2024
This workshop introduces what gray literature is, why it is needed in research, and where/how to find it. Grey literature is usually produced and distributed by organizations, corporates, government agencies, etc. Grey literature includes technical reports, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, etc.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/e8zcbdd7gzp9johirpul84lt0lv9tkta
Session: March 1, 2024
This workshop covers what copyright is, what types of works have copyright, and to what extent creators are protected by copyright law. Participants can learn how to license their works to others and use someone else’s copyrighted works.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/mubumx7p65e8zfpo5fv87w9b09q6327h
Session: January 19, 2024
This workshop introduces users to several useful business databases for international company research, industry research, and finance information. Users will learn about resources where they can find global and regional market reports and multinational companies’ financial statements.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/crms26prynhlkvd7pakua0q9ys254j4m
Session: February 17, 2023
This training workshop teaches users how to use Wind Financial Terminal to understand China’s complex capital markets and economy. The terminal integrates the most comprehensive and accurate market data, fundamental data, research, news, and analytics tools across all asset classes in China.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/6YMHAA/
Session: April 19, 2024
This engaging workshop covers valuable resources that shed light on China’s present-day affairs, including databases for academic journals, Chinese newspapers and ebooks, statistical data, and laws and regulations. Participants also learn how to cite Chinese materials in English.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/n67qie5mrlj18vtb76eu2axdk859l68y
Session: February 21, 2025
Documenting history administratively, intellectually, and culturally is important for a variety of reasons. This workshop will discuss how the DKU Community can help support building the university archive along with a show-and-tell of some highlights in the current DKU Special Collections.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/qb4xpk3kmgxyban9qdk4y91l4fvksyha
Session: November 21, 2025
With our personal and work lives becoming overwhelmingly digital, safeguarding your data is key for protecting memories, research, and institutional history. This workshop will provide practical skills on how to better preserve digital records at home, at work, or with student organizations and projects.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/hy8i7dkuzv57lppw6err553ufwullver
Session: April 11, 2025
This workshop highlights key resources important for public policy research, including article databases such as Political Science Complete and Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), data resources from global and national organizations, various forms of grey literature, and Chinese legal and policy resources.
Session: November 7, 2025
The session teaches users to manage their scholarly sources using Zotero, a powerful citation management tool. Users will learn how to add sources with different methods and create bibliographies. .
Slides: to be updated
Session: November 14, 2025
This workshop introduces users to the basic functions of EndNote 2025, a powerful citation management tool that can help users organize their research references and build their bibliography. This session is for users with no or little experience with EndNote.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/sk0w3nbvm9fkvh2rjldke6iusrfa2cj8
Session: January 10, 2025
This workshop introduces users to intermediate functions of EndNote 20, including how to effectively use EndNote 21 to manage a large amount of unsorted references, read and annotate PDFs, and share their bibliography with teammates.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/ehxikusoujpw67db5kceprf30k8lu3ol
Session: October 31, 2025
ArcGIS Online is a web-based mapping and analysis tool to create, analyze, and share interactive maps using spatial data. This workshop will guide you through creating your first digital map, from importing and processing data to visualizing it in ArcGIS Online.
Session: November 28, 2025
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software that helps you organize, code, analyze, and visualize non-numerical data such as interview transcripts, survey responses, articles, and multimedia. Designed for absolute beginners, this workshop will introduce the basic tools and functions that can support you from importing and organizing data to coding and visualizing findings in NVivo 14.
Session: September 8, 2023
This workshop will quickly introduce basic functions and skills in Excel to those who are unfamiliar with the program before demonstrating several useful skills for working with data.
Slides and practice books: https://duke.box.com/s/pnqdn58l2kya3ewl9rvchdd9yqqos9yp
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/P9kHAA/
Session: September 22, 2023
This workshop includes an introduction to how to install an environment swiftly to run Python, programming basics, and how to create and run simple programs. Recommended for users with no previous exposure to Python.
Slides and sample scripts: https://duke.box.com/s/et2ss2vnakzdy0ftq4frt86gzx0hetwt
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/zeUHAA/
Session: November 18, 2022
This workshop will walk you through the process of using Python to deal with a dataset, clean the data and visualize it. It is recommended for students with some or a little experience with Python or other programming languages.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/jU4HAA/
Session: April 12, 2024
This workshop introduces LaTeX, the premier typesetting system perfect for students, researchers, and anyone in need of creating well-structured academic documents. Participants will learn how to set up the basic structures and incorporate mathematical equations and references.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/a36hzi0rblmcdayh30ni5m8zye9w01i8
Session: February 2, 2024
Tableau is a powerful, professional tool for turning datasets into interactive data visualizations. This workshop will work with a practice dataset to explore some basic visualization tools in Tableau and see how to upload it on Tableau Public to share with the world.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/PysIAA/
Practice books: https://duke.box.com/s/6tblzvbmpoxydgmaii734adjyxqv0dov
Session: March 6, 2024
Practice your R skills with a the popular Tidyverse package. You will learn how to use inferences and R tools to patch holes and make data useful. You will also use ggplot2, a very common visualization package, to create visually interesting charts to help understand and present the data.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/vzkIAA/
Slides and practice books: https://duke.box.com/s/rinufl2tig071kievuva7q4ixl3fqjkb
