Past Events

Instructors: Leslie Christensen, Susan Vandagriff, Lia Vellardita, Paije Wilson
Online/virtual
11/12/2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an ever-evolving, and often overwhelming topic. This workshop will give a high-level, critical overview of generative AI tools within the context of health sciences research.

Facilitated by Chris Hooper-Lane
Zoom (link will be emailed ahead of discussion)
10/31/2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Please join us for a discussion of this year’s UW Go Big Read selection James: A Novel by Percival Everett.

Instructors: Hannah Swan and Susan Vandagriff
Online/virtual
10/29/2025 @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
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Are the mortality records you’re looking for long departed? Is the website of infectious disease stats you needed a ghostly memory? If you need to dig up sources of health information from the archival and digital graveyards, this workshop is for you.

Instructor: Mary Hitchcock
Online/virtual
06/25/2025 @ 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
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This session introduces you to CINAHL’s new interface and features and will focus on effective search techniques, understanding/using CINAHL Headings, using limits, creating alerts, saving citations into citation managers (Zotero & EndNote), accessing full text, and creating alerts or saved searches with a personalized folder.

Instructor: Leslie Christensen
Online/virtual
11/13/2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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This workshop will introduce two essential tools: Covidence to manage team-based evidence synthesis projects, like systematic reviews, and PRISMA to accurately report your systematic or scoping review.

Instructor: Leslie Christensen
Ebling Library Room 3330
11/13/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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This workshop will introduce two essential tools: Covidence to manage team-based evidence synthesis projects, like systematic reviews, and PRISMA to accurately report your systematic or scoping review.

Instructor: Mary Hitchcock
Ebling Library Room 3330
10/30/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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This session will review the CINAHL database and focus on effective search techniques, understanding/using CINAHL Headings, using limits, creating alerts, saving citations into citation managers (Zotero & EndNote), accessing full text, and creating alerts or saved searches with a personalized folder.

Instructor: Paije Wilson
Ebling Library Room 3330
10/16/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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EndNote 21 is a subscription-based citation manager that allows you to save, organize, and format citations for your research.

Instructor: Lia Vellardita
Ebling Library Room 3330
09/25/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Zotero is a free citation manager that allows you to save, organize, and format citations for your research. During this workshop attendees will acquire a fundamental knowledge of how to use Zotero, including how to create an account, install tools, create and edit citations, attach PDFs to citations, create and share collections, and use the Microsoft Word plugin.

Instructor: Lia Vellardita
Ebling Library Room 3330
09/18/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Whether you’ve been using PubMed for years or are just getting to know it, there is always something to learn! Join us in this hands-on workshop as we cover basic and advanced searching techniques and what to do with search results, use the various tools PubMed has to offer, and more.