Libraries | Research Resources Forum

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Location: University Library, Mitchell Multimedia Video Theater (Level 2 South)

Description:
Geographic information systems (GIS) is applicable to a wide range of disciplines. Geography and spatial relationships can provide insight for a variety of research questions. In this session we will provide an overview of GIS, resources available to you as a graduate student and demonstrate how you can use GIS in your research. After this session you will have the tools to get started and begin mapping your research.

Learning Goals:
Understanding of GIS, GIS resources offered by the library, how GIS can be applicable to a graduate student’s field of study.

Presenters:
Mech Frazier, Geospatial and Cartographic Specialist, mechell.frazier@northwestern.edu; and Kelsey Rydland, Data Services Librarian, kelsey.rydland@northwestern.edu

Recording:
No recording is available for this session.

Resources:
Slides for Mapping Your Research

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Location: University Library, Forum Room (Level 2 South)

Description:
This session will explore the messiness of research. We talk and write about discrete parts of the process, but each is interconnected. Writing an outline can illuminate an idea previously unexplored in analysis, and a comment from another scholar can ask us to consider a different theoretical approach. Presenters will draw on real-world examples of non-linear research from various disciplines and illuminate tools and services that can help you navigate it. Keeping these pitfalls and opportunities in mind will normalize these potentially stressful experiences and help you mitigate them.

Learning Goals:
Participants will consider the pitfalls and opportunities of the research process. Participants will learn strategies and services that can help navigate the non-linear research process.

Presenters:
Jason Kruse, Undergraduate Services Librarian, jkruse@northwestern.edu; and Gina Petersen, Assessment Librarian, gina.petersen@northwestern.edu

Recording:
No recording is available for this session.

Resources:
Presentation Slides (PDF)

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Location: University Library, B234/B238 (opened as one classroom)

Description:
Whatever you may think of governments and governance, local, state, federal, and international government agencies produce vast amounts of information, analysis, and data that is valuable to research in a wide array of subject disciplines. Whether you will use government information in your academic life or to support your co-curricular activities (as an activist, an entrepreneur, or a family member/parent) this session will highlight the government information collections of the NU Libraries and provide initial starting points for accessing this valuable world of information. Participants will also receive freebies / swag for attending!

Learning Goals:
After this session participants in this session will be able to: 1. Identify the location of government information collections in the NU Libraries 2. Explore online and physical government information research materials related to their graduate studies 3. Seek assistance identifying relevant government information for their graduate studies

Presenter:
Anne Zald, Librarian, anne.zald@northwestern.edu

Recording:
No recording is available for this session.

Resources:
Presentation Slides (PDF)