Ebling Library Workshops & Events

Ebling Library and CHASM offer book discussions for health science students, staff, and faculty. This month, the group will read Daisy Fancourt's new book Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives.

Learn about one of the boardgames featured in Ebling’s game collection. Sagrada is fast, fun and very (of course) colorful - and you can learn and play it in less than an hour.

Join Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections for an exhibition open house of Craft/Work: A History of Occupational and Art Therapies, presented in conjunction with the Wisconsin Science Festival.

Effective teaching is a skill that develops through reflection, practice, and continuous improvement. In this one-hour workshop, participants will explore strategies and receive guidance around this practice.

This in-person workshop explores the role of playful pedagogy and games in instruction and offers attendees the chance to play Plagued! Age of Enlightenment, an instructional game created here at Ebling using sources from the Historical Collections.

Suppressed and unseen for decades, Huston's powerful documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of psychologically traumatized World War II veterans, revealing the human cost of war with uncommon empathy in conjunction with UW-Madison Cinematheque.

Embase is biomedical and pharmacological literature database newly available through Ebling Library. Participants will receive an overview of the database and how coverage differs from Pubmed. Please note that this workshop is open to the UW-Madison community only.

Join Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections for an exhibition open house of Craft/Work: A History of Occupational and Art Therapies. Additional materials related to military medicine and veterans' health in history will be displayed in celebration of Veterans' Day.

This workshop will walk you through how to create an ORCID profile, show you how to link ORCID to SciENcv and eRA Commons, and demonstrate the basics of creating an NIH Biographical Sketch in SciENcv.

Join Hannah Swan, Ebling Library’s Curator of Historical Collections, for a lecture on the intersections of bookmaking, book arts, and occupational therapy.