The Library is collaborating with faculty on three of the inaugural projects of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society by providing staff expertise, access to current collections and resources, services as a repository, and technical support. Continue reading
Workshop led by Dr. Birali Runesha in the John Crerar Library’s Kathleen A. Zar Room on Tuesday, May 21 from 1:00-3:00 PM This hands-on workshop will provide a basic introduction to parallel programming using the MPI message passing library. It will … Continue reading
Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm; online
This live, online webinar will show you how to get started using the citation management tool, Zotero. Continue reading
Wednesday, May 22, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Center for Teaching and Learning, Gates-Blake 133
In this program, University of Chicago librarians will highlight ways you can integrate library research instruction into your courses to promote the acquisition of the skills necessary to complete research assignments. Continue reading
Monday, May 20, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm; online
This live, online webinar will compare three citation managers — EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero — by demonstrating how to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
Do you own an iPad? Do you read scholarly journals? Then BrowZine might be a great tool for you! The Library has arranged for a subscription to the Browzine app for all University of Chicago users. BrowZine assists users by … Continue reading
This past January, the Library launched a “Book a Room” service, which allows faculty, students and staff to book meeting and study rooms in the Library. The online reservation system provides an overview of all available spaces and allows users … Continue reading
Location: Crerar Library Computer Classroom. Learn how to use the bibliographic software EndNote. Topics covered include creating and managing libraries, importing references from online databases, importing and managing PDFs and creating formatted bibliographies and citations in Microsoft Word. Registration is … Continue reading
On Wednesday May 15th from 1pm to 5pm the John Crerar Library will be hosting a representative from BIOBASE. In a four hour tutorial Dr. Alexander Kaplun will be teaching about BIOBASE PROTEOME and BIOBASE TRANSFAC. BIOBASE PROTEOME is a … Continue reading
Dr. Douglas Rudd will be presenting Introduction to Debugging and Optimization on Midway on Tuesday May 14th from 1pm to 3pm in the Crerar Library Kathleen Zar Room of the John Crerar Library. This workshop will give a brief introduction … Continue reading
May 17, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm; TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero, a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing the Web and to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles. Continue reading
Moving with memories: Hyde Park’s Seminary Co-Op Bookstore gets a documentary exhibition
Newcity – May 8, 2013 Continue reading
This mini exhibit explores the development and characteristics of censorship in Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and today’s Russian Federation. The exhibit (in 3 cases) is located in the Second Floor Reading Room of the Joseph Regenstein Library and will run from May through August 2013. Continue reading
A mini exhibit commemorating the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard on the 200th anniversary of his birth displayed in the Fourth Floor Reading Room of the Joseph Regenstein Library. Continue reading
When: May 13 – May 17 and May 209:30 am – 4:30 pm Where: Regenstein Library, Room A-10 (via 1st Floor lobby)1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Description: The Library is holding a sale of more than 6,000 duplicate and discarded volumes in … Continue reading
Dr. Paul Serrano of the Department of Biology will be giving a talk entitled Visualizing Fossils: Looking Inside and Making them Move May 7 from 3:00pm-4:30pm in the Kathleen A. Zar room of the John Crerar Library. Computed-tomographic imaging has … Continue reading
Take a tour of the exhibition “The Seminary Co-op Documentary Project: Capturing the Bookstore’s Distinctive Character and History” with co-curator Jasmine Kwong, AB’06. Continue reading
Visit the Special Collections Research Center to view R. Crumb’s “Early Jazz Greats,” a set of 36 trading cards featuring original images by Crumb and short biographies of early Jazz musicians. Continue reading
Library Society Lecture – Censorship and Omnicensorship: Controlling the Text in Russia
By Marianna Tax Choldin, Lab’59, AB’62, AM’67, PhD’79
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Continue reading
University of Chicago faculty and students interested in using biotechnology information tools and resources can ask questions, schedule consultations, or arrange training sessions with Vedana Vaidhyanathan from the John Crerar Library. Vedana, the Biomedical Reference Librarian and Informatics Specialist at … Continue reading
Crystara was commissioned in 1984 for the newly built Crerar Library. Designed by artist John David Mooney, and constructed of aluminum and Waterford Crystal, the 30 by 12 foot sculpture fills much of the three story atrium of Crerar. The crystals … Continue reading
National DNA Day is Thursday April 25, 2013. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. Also, on this day … Continue reading
Underneath the glass bubble
Chicago Maroon – April 16, 2013 Continue reading
Catch a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, and stay for delicious science demonstrations. The 100-minute film, a 1971 musical adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, will be … Continue reading
April 25, noon – 1:00 pm; May 15, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
EndNote Web is a citation management tool available through the Library that helps you collect, organize, and share citations from library databases and catalogs. EndNote Web also helps you format your papers, creating bibliographies and footnotes in a wide variety citation styles. Continue reading
April 23, noon – 1:00 pm; May 13, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This workshop will compare EndNote and Zotero by demonstrating how to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
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