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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: September 1, 2023
This workshop helps students acquire knowledge of the creation and organization of information and skills to search for appropriate information for academic research.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/9dku4rbiqojl9hhxl31gf1cquerzq9wq
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/jdUHAA/
Session: September 8, 2023
This workshop helps students learn how to identify different types and formats of sources, how these sources are created and published, and how they can be used for other purposes.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/imgr0v04lj3j68z4d62qmdkbs8s8amy8
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/I9kHAA/
Session: September 15, 2023
This workshop helps students learn how to use relevant sources they have found to create a bibliography and/or annotated bibliography and organize sources of multiple perspectives into a literature review.
Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/rhsbanrtbojseflyisj6kxaerz1gn3b1
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/F94HAA/
Session: September 22, 2023
This workshop helps students navigate our increasingly data-driven world and learn the difference between correlation and causation and how research structure affects the questions that data can answer.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 1, Fall 2023.
Session: February 24, 2023
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.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/V4gHAA/
Session: April 14, 2023
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.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/q7sHAA/
Session: February 10, 2023
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.
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/QYEHAA/
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: November 10, 2023
This workshop teaches students to manage their scholarly sources using Zotero, a powerful citation management tool. Students will learn to install, add sources, and create bibliographies using the software, and more.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 2, Fall 2023.
Session: November 17, 2023
This workshop introduces users to the basic functions of EndNote 20, 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.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 2, Fall 2023.
Session: December 1, 2023
This workshop introduces users to intermediate functions of EndNote 20, including how to effectively use EndNote 20 to manage a large amount of unsorted references, read and annotate PDFs, and share their bibliography with teammates.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 2, Fall 2023.
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: October 27, 2023
Go beyond your basic formulas and day-to-day uses of Excel and learn how to create dashboards to share and interact with your data. Learn skills like Lookup, If statements, and conditional formatting.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 2, Fall 2023.
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, if available, will be released at the end of Fall 2023.
Session: November 24, 2023
This workshop will teach you how to use two popular tools – Google Earth and ArcGIS – to create your own maps which you can use for study, research or just personal exploration of the world.
Recording, if available, will be released after Session 2, Fall 2023.
Session: March 24, 2023
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/M5kHAA/
