Looking to deepen your understanding of your research topic? Join our VOSviewer workshop to enhance your skills. VOSviewer is a free tool designed for analyzing and visualizing research literature. During the workshop, you'll learn how to export data from scholarly databases like Web of Science into VOSviewer, identify key research themes, influential researchers, and significant publications in your field, and create visualizations based on publication details such as titles, keywords, and abstracts.

By the end of this workshop, you will learn about:

• bibliometric analysis.
• use VOSviewer.
• citation relations, including bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-authorship.
• citation network.
• visualization of citation networks.
• co-occurrence networks.

Learn more and register at: https://buff.ly/41Og504

This workshop will introduce you to Lakehead's OMNI search system, and other resource tools which will help fulfill your research needs at Lakehead University.

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:

• find books on your topic, and request books from other Ontario universities
• find peer reviewed scholarly articles
• seek further assistance from the library

Learn more and register at: https://buff.ly/41Og504

For anyone doing internet-based research. How can we create reliable, permanent copies of social media, websites, and other documents only found online? This 1-hour workshop explores tools you can use yourself, and how you can make use of web archiving projects worldwide, to carry out research, or to preserve copies of ephemeral digital material to be studied or referenced. (Chrome browser recommended.)

By attending this workshop you will:

• better understand the challenges of preserving digital material on the web;
• know how to use and contribute to Internet Archive collections;
• explore other free tools to preserve social media content for later reference.

Learn more and register at: https://buff.ly/41Og504

If you are already familiar with NVivo and its functionalities, but want to get more nuanced understanding of coding qualitative data and developing codes into themes, this 2-hour in person workshop is for you. You will be introduced to a step-by-step practical hands-on approach on how to use NVivo software for qualitative data analysis, and how you can prepare and report/discuss your themes in qualitative research.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• develop qualitative data codes
• categorize codes into themes
• refine, group, and name themes
• develop analytical themes
• visualize qualitative data in NVivo (e.g., word tree, word cloud, thematic tables)
• export your codebook and visualized figures into MS Word

Note: This workshop will be held in person at the Chancellor Paterson Library Computer Lab, and registration is required. Participants will have opportunities for follow-up in person appointments with the facilitator to improve areas of weaknesses.

Learn more and register at: https://buff.ly/41Og504

Systematic reviews, unlike other types of literature reviews, follow a structured and predefined process. In this session, we will walk you through the steps of a systematic review, focusing on preparing for your systematic review, identifying key sources of research and developing detailed search strategies. Learn how librarians can support you in conducting a systematic review.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• distinguish a systematic review from other types of literature reviews
• identify the steps to conducting a systematic review
• recognize tools and resources to aid in your review

Learn more and register at: https://buff.ly/41Og504

Dr. Louise Chavarie, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Title: “Hotspots of Ecological Diversity: Exploring Intraspecific Variation and Multi-Ecotype Assemblages in Salvelinus and Coregonus”

Host: Dr. Mike Rennie

All are welcome. Free public seminar

Please contact Heather at biology@lakeheadu.ca for the Zoom link.

Dr. Brian McLaren will present "Lessons from the home gardens of Sangay, Ecuador" for the Natural Resources Management seminar series. All are welcome in person (Braun Building BB1054 or by Zoom at: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824). 

Dr. McLaren is the Chair of the Environmental Management program and professor focused on the intersections of wildlife and disturbances in forest ecosystems. While maintaining an active program of scholarship across the boreal landscapes, over the past decade he has also built important research partnerships and projects in Ecuador. These holistically explore an important range of human-natural resource interactions. Dr. McLaren completed his BSc at the University of Toronto and PhD at Michigan Tech.

The Institute of Italian Studies invites you to an evening of learning conversational Italian. Topics include salutations, alphabet, articles, numbers and time, days/months/seasons, pastimes, verbs, foods/vegetables, family tree, clothing, restaurant conversations, body parts, recipe dish, scene from a doctor’s office for example. 

No knowledge of the Italian language is necessary!

It is open to all.  If you are planning a trip to Italy, or if you are of Italian descent but don’t speak the language, this evening will be a fun way to learn the very basics.

Participants will be organized in small groups and rotate through stations that focus on each of the above topics. The evening will end with an onscreen quiz to reinforce your learning experience. Bring a notebook and pen to record what you have learned.

Admission is free!

Having a ruff day? Take a paws and visit the Chancellor Paterson Library to hang out with our fluffy visitors!

Every Wednesday until April 9th, the library will be hosting St. John’s Ambulance Therapy Dogs from 6 to 7 p.m.

Meet and mingle with faculty, staff and other students from the Department of Languages.