PRINTER UPDATE

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When you use the printer in the CLIC, you must first type in your computing I.D, for example, tj2u and your eservices password on the keypad (do NOT scan your I.D. card at this time). If your password has a character that is not on the keypad, you must press the HOLD button so additional characters can display for you to select using the F1 key to move backward and the F2 key to move forward. Press ENTER to select the character and press HOLD again when you are finished using the optional character set. When you finish inputting your password, press ENTER. Next, you select PRINT, and then you slide your student ID card (stripe on the left, facing up) through the keypad to pay for the printing. (The card slot is on the right side of the keypad.)

BAGELS & COFFEE
WHO: Curry students, faculty and staff
WHAT: Coffee & Bagels
WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 8:30-12:00 noon.
WHERE: Ruffner Hall, Room 302, The CLIC
DESCRIPTION: As we turn the corner towards exams, Ed Council would like to help you celebrate the end of successful semester. Join us in the CLIC for fresh Bodo's bagels and delicious coffee.

2.0
RefWorks 2.0 version will be available to UVa users in mid-May. If you want to start getting ready for the new version, RefWorks has an FAQ page.

RESEARCH PATTERNS

This new RIN report, Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the Humanities, is the second in the series. It focuses on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. To view only the report, click here.

  BUILD AN ONLINE CLASS
Who: Open to all interested individuals
What: Be in on the ground floor as an online class
is developed for the next school year.
When: Thursday May 5, 12pm – 1pm
Where: CLIC (3rd Floor Ruffner Hall)

TED.COM
John Hunter, a fourth-grade teacher at Albemarle County's Agnor-Hurt Elementary School puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At John's TED2011 presentation, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches -- spontaneous, and always surprising -- go further than classroom lectures can. See a three minute excerpt of the film, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements on YouTube.

GRADS, RENEW
Graduate students, please renew the books and other materials your already have checked out. You can renew online or at any library circulation desk. The new due date will be May 11, 2012.

NEWSLETTER
Click here to read previous issues of the Education Services newsletter.

UVa is a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) which is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, and other fields.

ICPSR welcomes and encourages deposits of digital data in their data repository. Their Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving, 4th Edition is an excellent source for best practice no matter where you deposit your data.

WHO: All Curry students, staff, and faculty are invited
WHAT: Poster Sessions with bagels and coffee!
WHEN: Tuesday, May 3, 9:30-10:30 and 11:00-Noon.
WHERE: Ruffner Hall, Room 302, The CLIC
DESCRIPTION: Students in the EDLF 7100: Contemporary Issues in Education course will be presenting their final projects in a poster symposium in the CLIC. Students have researched educational issues of concern to them, and will be presenting their syntheses of this research, along with practical solutions to these issues. We hope you can join us to honor the hard work that they have put into their projects!

FREE 2-DAY TRAINING
There are two NAEP training sessions scheduled this summer, and the application deadlines for both are approaching. These advanced studies seminars are each two and a half days long, and will be held in Arlington, VA. NCES will also pay for transportation, hotel accommodations, and a fixed per diem for meals and incidental expenses during the training seminar for participants.

April 30 is the deadline for applications for the Special Session of the NAEP/NIES Database Training Seminars for Research on American Indian/Alaska Native Students, June 28–30, 2011. For full information, on this seminar, click this link, For more information on the National Indian Education Study (NIES) click here.

May 11 is the deadline for applications for the HSTS Database Training Seminar: Use of the NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) 2009 Data, June 22–24, 2011. Click this link for full information on this HTTS seminar, For more information about the NAEP HSTS, see the survey website

NAEP is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

DIGITAL HUMANTIES
WHO: Myron Gutmann
WHAT: Digital Humanities Speaker Series
WHEN: Friday, May 6, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Monroe Hall, Room 120
TOPIC: Data Access for Research and Teaching
in the Twenty-First Century

The scientific community is facing new opportunities and new requirements in the ways that data are managed and made available for future research. The biggest change that we see is the dramatic increase in the volume of data produced by observations, experiments, and simulations, which has turned what was already a steady stream of data into a flood. That rising tide of data is being shared by research networks that span the globe, calling for new infrastructure and new architectures that will allow researchers to make use of data from around the world and engage in new long-distance collaborations. These new collaborations now mostly involve researchers, but the availability of new forms of data and the creation of new mechanisms for sharing those data make it possible to expand access in a meaningful way to students and citizen scientists. At the same time, policy makers are moving forward rapidly to require that data from publicly-financed research projects be shared with other researchers, while they simultaneously concern themselves with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of human research subjects. This presentation will discuss these changes in the data preservation and sharing environment, especially as they relate to data for the social, behavioral and economic sciences, and suggest ways that all the potential stakeholders in the process -- funding agencies, universities, data archives, libraries, researchers, teachers, and students can work together in the future to get the most out of our data investments.