Library Workshops Archives

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. 

Research Literacy

Research Literacy Series – Search Strategies

Session: August 23, 2024

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/yekhqo316ahpj31yatyhaoh9ihzl5xa1

Research Literacy Series – Evaluating Information

Session: August 30, 2024

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/9ku1btjs9fn4p80ycdtqec7soqkofmu0

Research Literacy Series – Using Information Effectively, Ethically, and Legally

Session: September 6, 2024

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/7lwc70r26gqvdpivep5nm9fylh4gsp37

Research Literacy Series – Navigating Truth, Bias, and Ethics in Data and Visualization

Session: November 10, 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: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/-wIIAA/

Grey Literature: What it is & how/where to find it

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

Introduction to Copyright for Creators

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

Subject Databases

Introduction to Business Databases

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

Explore Wind Financial Terminal

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/ 

Know Current China: Unveiling Insights into Contemporary China

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

Citation Management Tools

Introduction to Zotero – Citation Management Tool Training

Session: November 22, 2024

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.

Slides will be available after the event.

Introduction to EndNote

Session: November 8, 2024

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.

Slides will be available after the event.

Intermediate EndNote

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.

Slides: https://duke.box.com/s/mza084be0vxen8binbu9ipz5ljialhyi

Data Tools and Programming

Intro to Excel – Creating and Editing Datasets

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/

Creating Dashboards and Enriching Datasets: An Intermediate Excel Workshop

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.

Slides and practice books: https://duke.box.com/s/f0oce2funnq0bm5tsony48szb1e84nsd
Recording: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/3_oHAA/

Introduction to Python

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/

Introduction to Python – Visualization for Data Science

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/

LaTeX Essentials: A Quick Start Guide

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

Intro to GIS: Exploring the World with Google Earth and ArcGIS Online

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: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/uwsIAA/

Intro to Tableau for Data Visualization

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

R for Cleaning and Visualizing Data

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