Curious about the Breakerspace? Want to learn to make stickers on the Cricut, or print with the 3D printer? Wondering how to embroider something using the sewing machine, or what it's like to play with virtual reality? Come visit the Breakerspace from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. and learn all about the tech we have, with the help of the Teen Tech Squad visiting from the Cedar Riverside Opportunity Center. All staff, faculty and students are welcome! Drop in at any…

Zotero is a research tool that collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and more. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes. You can also use Zotero to easily create citations and bibliographies in a variety of different styles. Register Online

Curious about the Breakerspace? Come for a tour of the space and a brief overview of all the tech available for the first half. In the second half, staff will be around to answer questions and help you get started with the tech or activity that interests you the most. Register now

This free two-hour workshop guides participants through the process of telling stories with maps using the Esri Story Map platform. A discussion about best practices in visual storytelling will precede a step-by-step tutorial on creating your own Esri Story Map. More Info | Register

Come by for a quick tour of the Bio-Medical Library Makerspace. We'll talk about what the Makerspace is, what tools we have and how you can use them. Register Online

This free three-hour workshop offers a hands-on overview of offline data collection using Esri's Collector for ArcGIS app. Topics include setting up templates, collecting features in the field, and visualizing data once it's collected. More Info | Register

This free seven-hour workshop introduces participants to using a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and create maps using Esri's latest desktop software, ArcGIS Pro. More Info | Register

This event has been cancelled 8/16/2019. Curious about the Breakerspace? Come for a tour of the space and a brief overview of all the tech available for the first half. In the second half, staff will be around to answer questions and help you get started with the tech or activity that interests you the most.  

Learn why you should use a citation manager to organize your PDFs and create bibliographies and in-text citations. This workshop will look at common citation managers: Mendeley, EndNote and Zotero. Register now

Mendeley can automatically locate, rename, and organize your citations and PDFs then create in-text citations and the bibliography. This hands-on class will cover how to use Mendeley to organize papers, read PDFs, and more. Register now

Zotero is a research tool that collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and more. Zotero works with Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. Zotero will easily create citations and bibliographies in a variety of different styles. Register now

Learn to import citations, customize your account, and format your bibliographies and in-text citations. We'll also discuss using EndNote in conjunction with EndNote Web, a Web-based version of EndNote available for free to current University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff. Register now