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Workshops

Workshops

Preparing your Course Materials: Copyright and Fair Dealing Fundamentals
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Presenter: Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office
Location: Robarts Library
Campus: St. George (Downtown) Campus

 

Location: Robarts Electronic Classromm (Room 4033, 4th Floor)

This workshop will help faculty and instructors better understand copyright law, fair dealing, and University of Toronto policies with respect to course materials for instruction.

Librarians from The Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office will introduce the University of Toronto's Fair Dealing Guidelines, and elaborate on the support that the University of Toronto Libraries offers, such as the Syllabus Service, to assist faculty with making course readings available to students in a copyright-compliant manner.

This workshop will consist of a 30-minute presentation and ample time for questions.

 

 

3D Printing Safety Training - MADLab
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018
Time: 2:10pm - 3:00pm
Location: Gerstein Library
Campus: St. George (Downtown) Campus

Learn how to safely operate the Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printers. You must complete this safety training session before you can use our 3D printers.

3D Printing Safety Training

Date: Thursday, September 13 2:10pm - 3:00pm

Location: MADLab, Gerstein Science Information Centre, 1 Below, room B112

Presenters: Erica Lenton, Gerstein Librarian & Mike Spears, MADLab Manager

What's Covered: 

- overview of 3D Printing @ Gerstein + MADLab policies & guidelines for use

- instructions for safe & effective use of the 3D printers

- how to prepare a 3D design file for printing 

- basic design principles

Questions?

Send your questions to gerstein.3Dprinting@utoronto.ca or visit our website at: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/3dprinting

ArcGIS Pro - An Introduction
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Presenter: Marcel Fortin
Location: Map & Data Library
Campus: St. George (Downtown) Campus

Participants in this workshop will learn the basics manipulating, visualizing and analyzing geospatial datasets in Esri's newest desktop software. 

Topics covered will include :

- A tour of ArcGIS Pro

- Loading and Manipulating shapefiles and geodatabases

- Symbology

- Cartography

- Spatial and Attribute Joins

- Querying

- Summarized Statistics

- Subsetting 

- Clipping, Erasing and Buffering

- Geocoding

Participants will also work through solving a problem using GIS analysis tools.

Story Maps
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Presenter: Marcel Fortin
Location: Map & Data Library
Campus: St. George (Downtown) Campus

This workshop is an introduction to Esri's Story Maps platform.  Participants will learn to build three popular Story Map types, Tour, Cascade and Journal. Participants will load original spatial data along with Social Media data to create interactive Story Maps.  Participants will also learn the basics of using ArcGIS Online.