The Undergraduate Writing Center offers one-on-one appointments with a Peer Learning Facilitator (a fellow undergraduate who is trained to help with writing). Peer Learning Facilitators (PLFs) can assist with any kind of paper for any class, and at any stage of the writing process. Appointments can be made in multiple locations, including the Powell Library Inquiry Lab.
See http://www.wp.ucla.edu/services.html for more information or to make an appointment.
The UCLA Library offers researchers helpful workshops on a variety of topics. The Winter 2013 schedule is listed below and online at:
<http://ucla.in/Ya1sl1>.
Most sessions are open with no advance registration required, but those sessions marked with an asterisk* do require advance online registration; see links to registration for each workshop below. All workshops will be held in the Research Library; see each entry for specific locations.
EndNote (sixty minutes)
This session offers a basic overview of the purpose, uses, and features of EndNote, a software program that helps researchers manage references and produce bibliographies for projects large and small.
Taught by Gabriella Gray, librarian for education and applied linguistics.
Meet in the East Classroom, room 21536.
• Wednesday, January 16, 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, January 29, 3 p.m.
*How to Formulate Your Research Question (two hours)
Wednesday, January 23, 3 p.m.
This workshop covers how to move from your own interests to a topic, determine a possible research question, and make a case for the significance of that question. You’ll also learn the components of a strong argument and where to start searching for evidence.
Taught by Kelly E. Miller, director of UCLA Library Teaching and Learning Services and Head of the College Library.
Meet in the Research Commons Digital Cultural Heritage Lab. Space is limited, and online registration is required: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/research-question-workshop
How can you inspire your students to get started on their own paths of inquiry and discovery? What sources, tools, and strategies can you provide to students as they learn to conduct research in the digital age? How can you get ideas for new ways to teach the research process? The Library provides a variety of services to assist you in helping students gain the research skills they need to succeed in the twenty-first century.
Here are just a few of the services that we offer:
Consultation on Course and Assignment Design
Teaching Workshops
Tours
To request any of the following services or learn more, contact Teaching and Learning Services staff at instruction@library.ucla.edu.
Click here to visit the Teaching Services web site.
Free audio books on public domain. You can download and listen to authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. The mission of LibriVox is to record all the books on public domain. I found it easy. Just go to your app store and download your favorite authors into your library, but you can also search their catalog by title or author to get yourself started. Check out the New releases feed. Also, volunteer and be a reader yourself.
Planning a capstone project or thesis? Thinking about graduate school?
Take the fall quarter Honors 101 class:
Research Today: Sources, Tools, and Strategies. The class will be from 3 to 4:50 p.m., Tuesdays at the Young Research Library (YRL).
This pass/no pass course will be two credits.
What does it mean to be a student at a research university? How can you get started on your own path of discovery? What does it mean to conduct research in the digital age? What sources, tools and strategies should you use to discover something original and convincing to contribute to a field or discipline? Designed to prepare you for a capstone or thesis experience in the humanities or social sciences, this course provides you with an opportunity to hone your research skills in engaging, interactive ways.
The instructors will guide you step-by-step through the creation of your own research project proposal. You will learn how to develop a compelling topic, find and interpret different kinds of sources (primary, secondary, digital), learn strategies and explore what it means to publish in the digital age. Plus you will visit “hidden” parts of the UCLA Library.
Troubled with that nagging payment you owe the library for the book that is holding up your lamp, or one that you are actually using for research?
Fear no more! No more excuses (unless lack of money), pay your bill online!
Library Payments Online, a new service in which patrons can pay for services online using a credit card or e-check.
Patrons can access Library Payments Online through the Library’s web site, under the Services section. In the web space menu system under Services, the link is labeled Library Payments Online. After clicking on the link on this page, a patron will then authenticate through the campus Shibboleth service, and then see a list of invoices from LibBill (the invoicing system developed by LBS and LIT last year.) After the patron selects an invoice to pay, the service links to UCLA’s payment service called CashNet, where credit card or e-check details are entered to make the payment completed.
Click here if you have a bill that needs clarifying?
From 1971 to 1994, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) embarked on a series of projects with Afghan embroiderers, creating monumental pieces that would become some of the artist’s most iconic works. Working first in Kabul in the 1970s and then in refugee camps in Pakistan after the 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Afghan women embroidered works based on Boetti’s templates that include: colorful grids of letters that spell out phrases (such as “Order and Disorder”); Mappe (maps), wall-sized world maps with countries filled-in with the colors and symbols of their flags; and Tutto (everything), large-scale works entirely filled with intricately embroidered shapes representing diverse objects—sunglasses, a Hindu goddess, a protractor, twins, and more. The exhibition features twenty-nine works by Boetti along with documentary photographs of the Afghan embroiderers taken in 1990 at Boetti’s request by Randi Malkin Steinberger, as well as examples of the traditional styles of embroidery that might have played a role in stimulating Boetti’s best-known works.
Click here for more information.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
UCLA Hammer Museum – Billy Wilder Theater
Documenting the public outcry against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s controversial 2011 budget-repair bill, ‘We Are Wisconsin!’ focuses on the human story behind a remarkable popular uprising forged on the floor of the Madison Capitol.
The film asks the question “why should we care about what’s going on in Wisconsin?” through an in-depth profile of six protesters—a UW-Madison student leader, a county social worker, a nurse, a high school teacher, a police officer, and a union electrician.
All Hammer public programs are free. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability.
Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.
Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Haines Hall – Room 135 – Media Center
Bunche Center Circle of Thought Lecture – Joshua Bloom “Black Liberation Struggle in the Postwar Decades, Social Movement Theory, and the Implications for Insurgent Social Movements Today”
Prevailing theories of social movements were built through the study of the Civil Rights Movement, the phase of Black Liberation Struggle that peaked in the early 1960s, challenging legal segregation and customary disenfranchisement through nonviolent civil disobedience.
Prevailing social movement theories have alternately portrayed the movement as driven by macro-structural forces; built by the long term organizational and framing work of activists; or both. These theories are incommensurate with the wealth of historical evidence on Black Liberation Struggle now available.
Black Liberation Struggle developed in three phases: Black Anti-colonialism which peaked in the late 1940s; the Civil Rights Movement; and Revolutionary Black Nationalism. Movement organization and broad frame adoption followed successful insurgent mobilization and political context mattered differently for different practices.
Free and open to the public.
Powell Library Rotunda
Admission free; no reservations required
Out of a desire to allow student artists to express their own ideas in a place of tolerance and acceptance, the Art History Undergraduate Student Association presents its annual art exhibit entitled “Art and Revolution,” exploring Paul Gauguin’s statement that “art is either plagiarism or revolution.” Specific concerns of the artists are addressed in a thought-provoking way that challenges the viewer to not only think about these issues but also raises the question, what does revolution mean to you?
