Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Business Research and Resources
Trainer(s): Shikha Sharma
Learning outcome: Participants will learn about business resources available at the Libraries, and how to identify and refer business questions.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
The Fascination with Technical Reports
Trainer(s): Barbara Williams
Learning outcome: Participants will learn what technical reports are, how to search databases that index technical reports, and when to refer.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Can we fix it? We (almost) always can! An introduction to problem-solving queues
Trainer(s): Evgenia Diakonenko, Julia Lanigan, Jake Meaney, Sara Meyers, Sally Richter
Learning outcome: Participants will learn what questions are appropriate to ask Technical Services and Metadata Services staff and how to refer to them.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Searching for Images
Trainer(s): Matt Saba and Kai Alexis Smith
Learning outcome: Participants will learn the image resources the Libraries support, how to search them, and when to refer.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Discovering and Understanding Archival Metadata
Trainer(s): Joe Carrano, Chris Tanguay, Becca Tibbitts, Rachel Van Unen, Thera Webb
Learning outcome: Participants will get an introduction to archival metadata and learn how to find and use the archival metadata at MIT.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Citation Management and Writing Tools: A Deeper Dive
Trainer(s): Amy Nurnberger
Learning outcome: Participants will know how to use citation management and writing tools to help their community members.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Trainer(s): Nick Albaugh and Paxton LaJoie
Learning outcome: Participants will go through the process of doing a GIS project: Find & download data, add the data to GIS software, and create a map. Participants must register at least one day prior to the session to download materials.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Supporting Students in Distress
Trainer(s): CARE Team and Student Support Services
Learning outcome: Participants will learn about the CARE Team, how their services apply to the Libraries, and how we can support students in distress.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Government Documents
Trainer(s): Kim Maxwell
Learning outcome: Participants will learn what government documents are, their locations, how to search for them, and policies for serving users.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Faculty/DLC Donations of Materials
Trainer(s): Mikki Macdonald
Learning outcome: Participants will learn about the materials DDC accepts for donation, questions to ask faculty, and how to refer to DDC.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Text and Data Mining
Trainer(s): TBA
Learning outcome: Participants will learn terms and vocabulary (software, hardware, tools) to identify TDM, campus resources and disciplines working on TDM, and where to refer TDM questions.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Teaching and Discovery with Distinctive Collections
Trainer(s): Amanda Hawk and Rebecca Bramlett
Learning outcome: Participants will learn about distinct collections and how they are used.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Publishing Topics (different topic each year)
Trainer(s): Katharine Dunn
Learning outcome: TBA
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Conceptualizing and Supporting Digital and Computational Projects for Patrons
Trainer(s): Joe Carrano
Learning outcome: Participants will be made aware of the digital and computational projects that DDC supports, and questions to ask their community members about these projects.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Emergency Training (in-person)
Trainer(s): Maria Rodrigues
Learning outcome: Participants will learn about emergency procedures and emergency preparedness plans.
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
Overview of Referrals
Trainer(s): Tina Chan
Learning outcome: Participants will learn which questions should be referred and where (ex.: Circ RT, Ask Us, JSM)
Date/time: TBA
Registration: TBA
Anyone interested is welcome.
Please contact Tina Chan if you have accessibility accommodation needs.
