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Workshop Avoiding Generative AI Learn how to avoid Generative AI. This session will focus on how to void and disable AI features in popular platforms and apps as well as how to identify Generative AI. It will introduce participants to the ethical concerns that motivate AI skeptics to avoid the intentional use of Generative AI. Reg... Friday, October 9, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Online
Workshop Data Analysis 2 This workshop reviews statistical tests, regression, sampling and bootstrap methods, and more. The focus here is on implementing statistics using R, with a comparison to Python techniques for accomplishing similar tasks. Part of the Data Topics series of workshops. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Regi... Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Finding Journals to Publish Your Work Selecting an appropriate journal is an important step in the publication process. This workshop will introduce strategies and tools for identifying journals that match the topic, scope, and intended audience of a manuscript. Participants will learn how to evaluate journals by reviewing their aims an... Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Workshop The Environmental Impact of AI Join us to explore the environmental impact of generative AI, from the electricity and water that data centers consume to the pressure they put on power grids and the communities where they are built. We will examine what the current evidence shows about the scale of that impact. You'll also learn h... Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Hybrid
Workshop Which Citation Manager? This workshop will provide students with an overview of the main features of three of the most popular citation management software programs: RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero. Learn which may be best for your research purposes. Instructor: Jonathan Torres (Business Librarian) Thursday, October 15, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Workshop Robeson Library Services for CCC and Rowan Join us for an overview of the Robeson Library for CCC and Rowan students, faculty, and staff. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/cccrowanfall26pm Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30 - 7:00 PM - Online
Workshop MEDLINE & PubMed for Nursing Students An overview of how to search the medical databases MEDLINE and PubMed for nursing students. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/5v7wxiaq Monday, October 19, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Online
Workshop Wikidata Edit-a-Thon: Newark Artists, Activists, and Academics Join librarians from John Cotton Dana Library for a Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in honor of Rutgers University–Newark’s 80th anniversary. This edit-a-thon will focus on improving and expanding profiles in Wikidata for Activists, Artists, and Academics from and within Newark. Together, we will identify and ... Monday, October 19, 2026, 12:00 - 2:00 PM - Newark
Workshop Data Visualization 1 This workshop covers basic data visualization in R, with emphasis on ggplot2 and associated packages. The focus here is on R techniques, with a brief comparison to Python techniques for accomplishing similar tasks, such as seaborn and matplotlib. Part of the Data Topics series of workshops. Worksho... Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Data Publication 1 This session covers how to create reproducible research and literate programming documents using knitr, Sweave, Quarto, blogdown, and bookdown. The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of ... Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online