BGS Career Development
Making It Count!
Trying to figure out how to have a productive summer? Looking for training? Exploring new skills? From R to archives, the Penn Libraries is offering a variety of workshops and series to help you make the most of Summer 2020.
Check out their calendar as well as their online guide which contains links to register for workshops in seven tracks, plus recordings and materials from completed workshops.
The workshops will cover the following topics:
Do you have data you want to share with the world, but get stuck whenever you leave Powerpoint? Lexi Voss, Visualizationist for the Penn Biomedical Library, will walk you through the basics of Illustrator and get you on the path to professional diagrams and figures.
Registration is required to receive workshop materials.
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Registration: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6785818
This workshop will introduce you to a few key visual design principles and elements for designing a flyer, poster, or any other visual image. We’ll help train your eye to identify these things and understand how they impact your creative work to help you make better choices that lead to more polished and eye-catching designs.
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Registration: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6779960
Don’t miss these upcoming Systematic Review workshops from Penn Libraries!
For details and to register, go to: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/wicshops
Start your summer off by getting organized with mind mapping! The Mind Mapping Workshop demonstrates how the use of visual concept maps can help creatively organize:
This workshop will be fun, informative, and hands-on. Please register to learn more about how mind mapping can change your chaos to composed designs.
Register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6777244
Wrapping up a research paper, thesis, or dissertation? Penn Libraries is offering a final round of online workshops for citation management. Register here.
Weds 5/13: Zotero
Thurs 5/14: Mendeley
Fri 5/15: Advanced Tools & Techniques