September 2021
ONLINE: How to Manage Your New Online Classes
Studying at home is a HUGE change! Chat with UMN Librarians about strategies for creating your best possible study environment, and maximizing your time. We'll go over time management apps like Trello, and discuss ways to communicate your needs to family and roommates. Register
Find out more »Thinking Spatially: Mapping Civic and Community Engagement
An online symposium Join us at the 4th annual Thinking Spatially symposium as we explore the topics of Civic and Community Engagement. Approaching our own communities from a geographic perspective may help to provide clarity as we work to make these places safer, more sustainable, and more equitable places to live. How are the shapes of communities changing over time, and why? How do we bring sustainable social justice into the community? How do we invest locally to create environments in which…
Find out more »Academic Success and Peer Tutoring Fair
Academic Success and Peer Tutoring Fair Thursday, September 30, 2:30-4:30, Northrop Plaza (outside) east bank Find out about the variety of FREE academic support services that are available to you—drop-in tutoring, study groups, academic coaching, research support, credit classes, and online tools and tutorials. Talk with tutors and representatives of these services from the East Bank, West Bank and St. Paul who are here to support your academic success. Find out more about: Student Writing Support SMART Peer Tutoring Success.umn.edu…
Find out more »October 2021
ONLINE: Starting a research paper
Get started on a paper or project in a helpful and supportive environment. About fifteen minutes of this virtual workshop will be devoted to sharing some tips and tricks for writing papers, scripts for presentations, and finding sources. The rest of the time will be devoted to actually getting work done with others who also need to get work done. Together we can help each other to beat paper panic and stop procrastinating! A link to the Zoom will be…
Find out more »November 2021
First Fridays: Kate Dietrick and Linnea Anderson
First Fridays: Celebration! This season we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of First Fridays in the Archives and Special Collections! Join us for presentations on anniversaries, beginnings, milestones, and memories throughout our collections. “Two slight taps, the lifting of a baton" The Minnesota JCC Symphony Orchestra Presented by Kate Dietrick, Archivist, Upper Midwest Jewish Archives As one of the oldest community orchestras in the country, the Minnesota JCC Symphony Orchestra has long been composed of musicians with day jobs from…
Find out more »December 2021
First Fridays: Northwest Architectural Archives
First Fridays: Celebration! This season we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of First Fridays in the Archives and Special Collections! Join us for presentations on anniversaries, beginnings, milestones, and memories throughout our collections. “‘Do You Really Want This Stuff?’ The Early Years of the Northwest Architectural Archives” Barb Bezat and Al Lathrop Presented by Al Lathrop and Barb Bezat, Northwest Architectural Archives To this question, Al replied emphatically, “Yes!” Hear the lighthearted reflections of the two individuals who made it…
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