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Workshop Schedule of Fall 2023

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This semester, we prepare a lot of workshops to support your academic success. All workshops are open to all, and you can RSVP on the Engage.

Scan through the topics and see if what you like!

All will be at Curiosity Lab (W506) except the three 11:50 AM sessions or special notification.

Day of the weekDateTimeWorkshop Name
Friday9/1/202311-12Developing & Refining Your Capstone Research Topic
Monday9/4/20234:15-5:15Library 101: Learn the Essentials Of NYUSH Library
Tuesday9/5/20233:15-4:15Intro to Primary Sources for Humanities Students
Friday9/8/202311-12IMA Capstone Research Methods
Friday9/8/20231-2Empowering Your IMB Capstone Through Library Resources
Monday9/11/202311:50am-12:50pmCitation Management Made Easy: Zotero Basics
Monday9/11/20234:15-5:15Popular News and Where to Find Them
Tuesday9/12/20233:15-4:15Library 101: Learn the Essentials Of NYUSH Library
Friday9/15/202311-12Citation Management Made Easy: Zotero for Capstone Students
Monday9/18/20236-7Business Information 101
Monday9/18/20234:15-5:15What Is That??: Identifying Your Sources
Friday9/22/202311-12Citations for Capstone Students: Chicago & APA
Monday9/25/202311:50am-12:50pmAPA Citation Style: A Comprehensive Guide
Monday10/9/20236-7Career Resources and Where to Find Them
Tuesday10/10/20233:15-4:15Following the Conversation: From citation to source
Friday10/13/20231-2Advanced Chinese Resources for Capstone Research
Friday10/13/202311-12The Literature Review for Capstone Students
Tuesday10/17/20233:15-4:15The Fun side of the library: finding movies, music, and more!
Wednesday10/18/20233-4Unleashing the Treasure Trove: Exploring Bonus Knowledge Beyond NYU Libraries
Wednesday10/18/2023LunctimeCitation Tournament
Friday10/20/20231-2Data and Your Capstone Research: How to find datasets and tweak scripts for your project
Friday10/20/202311-12Primary Sources for Humanities Capstone Students

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Relaxation, Reference, Painting – Ways to Recharge During Finals

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Did somebody say finals season? Let us get through it together! Need some academic motivation? Stressing over finals season?  We have the Relaxation Zone and some upcoming wellness programming to support your finals.
Join us in the Relaxation Zone, open 24/7 from Dec. 5-16, located in Room 400A. Come in to enjoy some massage chairs, couring stations, light snacks, stuffed animals, and puzzle toys. It is a space to rest, relax, and recharge.

  • Pop-up Reference Q&A

Jump start your papers and projects with support from librarians. You can ask for help with:- Researching for your paper- Citing your sources and developing your works cited- Writing support for any stage of the writing process (organization, clarity, and more!)

  • Finals Week Body Relaxation

Calm your mind, destress and improve your sleep with our body relaxation guided by Prof. Yuting Zhao.

  • Finals Week Destress Painting & Coloring

Take a break to calm your mind, destress and release your emotions with our painting & coloring.

Workshop This Week

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This week (11/14-11/18), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • The Literature Review

Finding resources for your literature review requires time, patience, and a good search strategy. In this workshop, we will discuss how to find, use, and navigate specialized databases to build your literature review.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshop This Week

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This week (11/07-11/11), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Essential Skills for Primary Source Research

Primary sources give you valuable insight into historical figures and events. Maps, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and other types of ephemera are both important and notoriously challenging to find. In this workshop, you’ll learn about special databases we subscribe to for primary source materials, and strategies for discovering and ethically using these resources from open-web repositories.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshop This Week

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This week (10/31-11/04), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Company Profiles and Where to Find Them (II): Private Companies

Know the commonly used private company research databases; understand the structure of a private company profile; know how to find the investment activities for a private company and its competitors.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Cite Smarter: Getting Started with Zotero

If you are also experiencing FOMO (fear of missing out), then this workshop is for you! Join us for a walk through on setting up Zotero and using its many capabilities to gain a competitive edge in your research. You don’t want to miss it!

Zotero is an open-source citation management software and free to use. It helps you keep track of citations and store research materials. Capstone students are strongly encouraged to join! RSVP now!

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshop of This Week

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This week (10/24-28), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Company Profiles and Where to Find Them (I): Public Companies 

As an essential component of the economy, companies play a crucial role in attracting talent, offering jobs, and boosting economic development. What are the differences between public companies and private companies? What are the basic information of a public company? Where can you find the profile for a public company? You will find answers to the questions after the workshop.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Citation Clinics

This October we’re putting citations in the spotlight!

There’s always help available from Library and the ARC when you’re struggling with citations, but this month we’re offering citation-focused workshops and activities. The main event will be a series of drop-in Citation Clinics where you can meet with librarians and ARC fellows to get answers to all your citation questions.

During the citation clinic, you can get help in person or online.

Date & Time

  • Monday 10 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

  • Tuesday 11 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

  • Wednesday 19 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

  • Thursday 20 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

  • Monday 24 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

  • Tuesday 25 October, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ARC Entrance & Zoom

Throughout the month, the Library and ARC WeChat channels will share weekly citation tips, along with information about upcoming events and workshops. Keep an eye out and build your citation expertise!

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Sharing Your Research Openly Through Self-Archiving | Open Access Workshop

Looking for ways to share your research openly? This workshop will go over the basics of the Open Access movement in research, with a focus on Green Open Access or self-archiving. Participants will learn about the benefits of open access for their research and what they need in order to share their research openly.

Lunch will be provided.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshops This Week

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This week (10/17-21), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Industry Reports and Where to Find Them (II): Industry Classification

An industry is a group of related companies based on their primary business activities, including raw materials, goods, or services. What are Industry Classification Codes, and why are they important? What the major industry classification systems in the world? How to know if the companies are in the same industry? You will find answers to the questions after the workshop.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Turning One Source Into Many

You’ve spent a while searching in the library and you found the perfect source for your research assignment. Great! But now you need four more. In this workshop you’ll learn how to use one good source to find others. You’ll learn how to expand your keywords, search by author, locate references, and do citation searching. If you have “one good source” bring it along, and if not you can learn these techniques in time for your next research project.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Research Outside the Library – Wikipedia and Google Scholar

If you want to use Wikipedia or Google Scholar in your research, or if you already do, this workshop is for you! You’ll learn more about what these sites are and how they work, so you can decide when to use them. We’ll look at how Wiki and Google Scholar compare to research tools in the library, see some of the features that can help you find reliable information, and learn how to use them to do effective academic research.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Advanced Chinese Resources

This workshop is open to all, especially the Capstone students whose projects will involve resources & methodologies in Chinese Research.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshops This Week

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This week (10/10-14), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Industry Reports and Where to Find Them (I): Basic Elements

An industry is a group of related companies based on their primary business activities, including raw materials, goods, or services. What are the basic elements of an industry report? What are the methods of conducting an industry analysis? Where can you find industry reports? You will find answers to the questions after the workshop.

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Introduction to SQL

This workshop introduces attendees to SQL through demonstration and hands-on exercises. The session discusses three topics: what SQL is, MySQL syntax, and how to use MySQL in actual development.
This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Hopelessly Computational (I): Blue Team Dynamics

In this session, we start with an overview of the field of computational social science, broadly defined. We then follow one path into the field, beginning with the seminal case of Google Flu Trends. It was a surveillance tool that Google launched in 2008 to estimate influenza activity in near-real time, and it stopped publishing estimates in 2015. Parts of this story you may be aware of: the claim of the ascendance of data-driven approach that raised hope of faster and easier estimates than “old-school” methods of data collection and statistical analysis, and the model’s major stumble in subsequent seasons.

However, there is much more to this story. Besides, scientific efforts on harnessing Google web search query data to predict endemics and pandemics have continued to the present. We review publications along this line of research. We focus on one issue, among others, the “blue team dynamics”. This describes a process where the algorithm producing the data has been modified by the service provider in accordance with their business model, inducing specific user behaviors and introducing patterns into data.

More generally, we discuss the benefits and biases of digital social research associated with algorithm-driven big data for forecasting. For instance, using Twitter data for political forecasting also falls prey to this “blue team dynamics”.

Please visit this web page for full details of the series Hopelessly Computational, including the outline and references for each past and upcoming session.

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Bloomberg Training Session – Equities & Company Analysis

This training session provides an opportunity for students to learn the basics and functions of using the Bloomberg terminals, focusing on the module of Equities and Company Analysis, including Stock/Company Screening, Company Description and Overview, Fundamentals and Financial Statements, Historical Price Table, Total Return Comparison, Monitor Equity Offerings, Stock Comparison, News Search, Drag & Drop and Data API.

The Bloomberg analyst will exemplify those functions in real business and practical implications. Welcome to bring your questions for the Q&A part. Open to all faculty and students online. Due to Bloomberg’s policy, there will be no recording provided after the session. Workshop slides can be shared with the participants if needed.

This workshop will be held virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Hopelessly Computational (II): Wisdom of Crowds

In this session, we turn to the second facet of computational social research—research design utilizing crowdsourcing technology to harness collective intelligence. We focus on one stage in a research project, data generation, including data collection and data production processes such as text annotation.

We discuss three such types of research designs: 1) an open survey that evolves over time based on the ideas of its participants; 2) a system that distributes microtasks in the crowd, whose outputs are as reliable and valid as those from expert human readers; and 3) a software application that interfaces with crowdsourcing technology, and that automates recruiting, collecting both behavior and survey data, and providing incentives to generate responses all in one stop.

These kinds of research design have the potential to improve the scope, efficiency, cost, scalability, sampling, response rates, and convenience of social scientific projects, compared to research in the analog age. Challenges of data quality control, assessing response biases, or adjusting sampling biases can be addressed in the design phase or analysis of data.

Please visit this web page for full details of the series Hopelessly Computational, including the outline and references for each past and upcoming session.

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Hopelessly Computational (III): Science of Where

It is always intriguing to acquire data, pin it on a location, and decipher the meaning behind the information we acquired and how that is related to others. Snow’s cholera map is one of the earliest disease maps that presents the co-relationship between patients and water pumps. However, with limited technology, it was impossible to further explore and discover the more dynamic and complex patterns, let alone make predictions of the potential development.

Nowadays, thanks to the rapid development of technology, to name a few, satellite imagery and the Internet of things (IoT), the acquisition process is more streamlined. Besides, GIS and computation together reveals the underlying patterns of the data and makes more accurate predictions with the data. This session, using three studies on the influence of COVID19 over urban regions as examples, presents the approaches from a spatial perspective.

However, technology doesn’t automatically solve every problem, and researchers have to be aware of distortions and potential issues in stages from obtaining data to making decisions. We will discuss some common cases, including the causes and the steps to eliminate their effects.

Please visit this web page for full details of the series Hopelessly Computational, including the outline and references for each past and upcoming session.

This workshop will be held in person and virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshops This Week

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This week (9/26-30), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • APA Style & Citations

The APA Style Manual guides writing and publishing in Social Work. From citing other works to formatting your manuscript, APA has guidelines for you! In this workshop, you’ll flex your muscles in applying APA guidelines to citing and formatting, and discover resources to help you navigate these stylistic rules. Come with questions!

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Developing Your Capstone Research Topic

If you’re working on your capstone, you might already have a research topic in mind that you’re interested in pursuing. This workshop will introduce strategies for developing your research topic into an achievable thesis question for your capstone.

This workshop will be held virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Capstone Research: Searching for Secondary Sources

Do you find it a challenge to look for resources related to Chinese studies? Are you wondering what Chinese language resources are available to you through our library? Come to learn the basics of identifying and using the popular Chinese databases such as CNKI (知网) and Duxiu (读秀) and English databases for Chinese studies.

This workshop will be held virtually, please register in advance on Engage:

 

Workshop & Event This Week

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This week (9/19-25), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Research Management Tools & Strategies: Zotero for Social Scientists

Citation Management Tools are powerful, efficient ways to save your sources and generate citations in your research. In this workshop, we will discuss one tool in particular, Zotero, and how you can use it to make your research & writing even easier.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Introduction to Popular Chinese Resources

Do you find it a challenge to look for resources related to Chinese studies? Are you wondering what Chinese language resources are available to you through our library? Come to learn the basics of identifying and using the main Chinese databases such as CNKI (知网), Wanfang (万方) and a few others.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

  • Libroary Thursdays: Join us and win prizes!

Get various event-based gifts (first come, first served!), and earn Libroary badges online.
Learn the most handy tricks and useful know-hows of NYU Shanghai Library.
Those who have collected the most badges will enter our lucky draw to win the final prizes!

  • Citations for Capstone Students: Chicago & APA

You already know why you have to cite, and you’re probably familiar by now with some foundational essentials for citing & citations. In this workshop, we’re going to discuss specific skills for using citation manuals to help you with ticky citations. We’ll discuss both the Chicago and APA citations in this session.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Workshop | Skills for Success: Library Research Essentials

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This week (9/12-18), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).

  • Skills for Success: Library Research Essentials

If you are brand new to NYU Shanghai library, this is the session for you! Join us to unlock the top secrets of the library! 🙂 You will learn how to make the best use of your library account,, access library resources from on and off campus, get help from library staff. You will have an opporuntiy to choose the topics you are interested in. Make sure to bring questions as well!

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

Online Bloomberg Training Session – Mutual Funds

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A new online training for all students and faculty!

Join us to learn the basics and functions of using the Bloomberg terminals, focusing on the module of Mutual Funds, including:

World Mutual Fund Market, Mutual Fund Trade Blotter, Mutual Fund Managers, Fund Screening, Historical Fund Analysis, News Search and Data API.

The Bloomberg analyst will exemplify those functions in the real economy and practical implications, like mutual funds performance and fund risk.

Welcome to bring your questions for the Q&A part.

Time: 12:30 PM – 2 PM | Wednesday, 3/16/2022

Place: Zoom

RSVP: https://engage.shanghai.nyu.edu/event/7977917

Note: Due to Bloomberg’s policy, there will be no recording provided after the session. Workshop slides can be shared with the participants if needed.