WORKSHOPS
The librarians in the CLIC will offer professional development workshops on a wide variety of topics throughout the Fall semester.

The schedule for the coming week is posted below. Subsequent workshop offerings and details will be posted in the library's newsletter that will be emailed to all Curry students, faculty, and staff on Thursdays throughout the semester. In addition UVa Library: Education Services newsletters are archived online and the schedule can be referenced there.

All Curry students are encouraged to attend these workshops which will be held in the CLIC's computer lab. Doctoral students will indicate on their annual review which of these classes they completed. No registration is needed. Bring your laptop or use one of CLIC's public computers during the workshop. Questions? Call 434-924-7040.

TOPIC: Learn to Set Up Your UVa Accounts
WHEN: August 23-26
TIME: 10 am - 11am OR 11am-Noon
    You need only attend one of the workshops above.
LOCATION: In the CLIC, 3rd floor of Ruffner
DESCRIPTION: Learn to set up accounts you will need at UVa. You can bring your laptop or use one of our computers.

TOPIC: Introduction to Using RefWorks Software
WHEN: August 23-26
TIME: 1pm-2pm
You need only attend one of the workshops above.
LOCATION: In the CLIC, 3rd floor of Ruffner
DESCRIPTION: RefWorks software enables you to: 

• Download citations from databases and put them into a personal RefWorks research database
• Format bibliographies and citations automatically in over 400 styles including APA, MLA, etc.
• Use in conjunction with WORD to write papers, dissertations, etc.
• Access your RefWorks account from any computer, anywhere
• Create a database and share it with colleagues around the world

This class will focus on setting up the defaults in the software, downloading citations into RefWorks from databases, Google Scholar and the online catalog; creating a bibliography in APA style; and accessing the full text journal articles you import into your RefWorks folders. Attendees are encouraged to open a RefWorks account before you arrive. View this 1-minute video to see how to open a RefWorks account.

EBOOK: VISUALIZING DATA
What is data visualization? Read this ebook to find out!

DATA VISUALIZATION
Example 1: This example features a motion chart disaggregating 8th grade NAEP in Mathematics and Reading by economic and ethnic subgroups, 2000-2009. The example is simple and, yet highly effective.

Example 2: Hans Rosling isa Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute. In this visualization, he examines the correlation between income growth and life expectancy in 200 countries over the last 200 hundred years in an amazing animation. The visualization technology is incredible.

Example 3: Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University professor demonstrates interactive, collaborative data visualization and not only the answers it can provide, but the questions it can provoke.

SEEKS YOUR INPUT
UVa Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (UVACSE) invite faculty and graduate students to complete the Visualization Lab survey using the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CKB6M38

"To date, visualization has not been well-supported at the University; however, the potential now exists to provide researchers with the resource they need to accomplish this. UVACSE goal is to be as inclusive as possible. Therefore, before resources are committed, we would like to explore the technical and support options—staffing, equipment, “Viz Lab,” and so forth—and how they can benefit University researchers. Your opinions are extremely important in helping us move forward with planning and implementation. We know you are busy but would appreciate your ideas and input."--Andrew Grimshaw
Professor of Computer Science
Director of the UVACSE

WITH PASSWORDS?
Go to the following web site to reset or change any of your passwords.

IN THE CLIC
The CLIC has over 300 handbooks for you to use when you are researching topics.

What is a handbook? Handbooks are a great place to start your research and literature reviews. They are a resource for locating best practices, research theories, names of authors, background material, overviews of topics, and good keyword terminology to use when you search databases for journal articles and other materials to inform and support your research. Some handbooks are online and others are located in the HANDBOOK section of the book shelves in the Curry Library Innovation Commons [CLIC]. The Handbooks are shelved in the study area to the left as you enter the CLIC. Handbooks must be read, photocopied or scanned in the CLIC as handbooks cannot be taken out of the CLIC.

Students can scan chapters from the handbooks and email them to themselves by using the CLIC's free digital sender. Faculty should use LEO to request copies.

NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Sage Handbook of Educational Leadership
Call Number : LB 2805 .S262 2011
Location: The CLIC's handbook section-- located on shelves in the study area to the left as you enter the CLIC
Table of Contents: TOC

NEW BOOK
Title: Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (4th Ed) Author: John W. Creswell
Call Number LB1028 .C742 2012
Location: The CLIC's reference section -- located on shelves in the study area to the left as you enter the CLIC
Table of Contents: TOC

NEW VIRGO INTERFACE DEBUTS TODAY
Improvements have been made to The University Library catalog! Virgo. This summer, a library usability team hosted many focus groups with faculty and students, wrote code, and designed a new interface to provide new functionality to our online catalog. We now have a new interface for VIRGO that features a simple and fast search engine that helps you discover relevant information on any topic from the University of Virginia Library collections of books, journal and newspaper articles, videos, maps, manuscripts, music scores and more. From your search results page, one click will display the full text of an article or tell you whether or not a book is on the shelf. Try out VIRGO today.

UPDATE
The folks at RefWorks have been listening to your input, and have created even better ways to organize your work within RefWorks as well as evolved collaborative and navigational capabilities. They are very excited to announce a new wave of enhancements in response to customer demand that are available now:
• Subfolders—for creating folders within folders that keep information organized and easy to share.
• Folder de-duplication—for de-duping within a single folder to remove multiple occurrences of a reference.
• Limiting fields in shared items—for sharing only the desired references and information with colleagues. Account owners will be able to choose which fields to show for each share.
• Combined Folders and Sharing page—for improved display on one screen. Easier than ever to manage folders and decide which ones to share.

WHAT IS THE CLIC?
The CLIC (Curry Library Innovation Commons) is located on the 3rd floor of Ruffner Hall. Think of it as a Learning Commons. Curry students will find group study space, computers, a quiet study room, white boards, copiers, librarians, data experts, presentations, and more.

WHEN IS THE CLIC OPEN?
Monday -Thursday 8am-10pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday CLOSED

  NEWSLETTER
Click here to read previous issues of the Education Services newsletter produced by the CLIC librarians, Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman.