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  • Knowledge Synthesis Workshop Series Part 2: Translating Database Searches and Finding Grey Literature

    Online/Virtual Event

    This workshop will cover key steps in creating a comprehensive search when conducting a knowledge synthesis or systematic review study. Topics to be covered in this session: Translate a search strategy in multiple databases How to plan and execute your grey literature search How to document your search There will be time to ask questions throughout […]

  • Tools and Workflows in QGIS, Part 1

    Online/Virtual Event

    This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to set up a QGIS project, find and load data onto a basemap, edit vector data from inside the GIS interface, perform joins and selections, and answer spatial questions using basic vector analysis. […]

  • Post-Nationhood, Belonging, and Exclusion: Latin American Studies Roundtable

    Walter C. Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Koerner Library and the Latin American Studies Program welcome you to one of our Latin American Heritage Month activities: a roundtable with Ana Vivaldi, Ben Bryce and Tamara Mitchell. Faculty will discuss their newly released books: Urban Indigenous Assemblages: Qom Mobilities and the Remaking of White Buenos Aires, Grounds for Exclusion: Race, Health, and Disability in Argentine […]

  • Introduction to Git and GitHub: Part 1

    Online/Virtual Event

    Learn the basics of using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration. Git is widely used version control software that tracks changes to a group of files, referred to as a repository. GitHub is a popular website for hosting and sharing Git repositories, making it easier to collaborate and share your work. Together, Git and GitHub provide a […]

  • Knowledge Synthesis Workshop Series Part 3: Covidence, Screening Criteria and Appraisal

    Online/Virtual Event

    This workshop will cover the following topics: Use Covidence to deduplicate and screen results Develop inclusion/exclusion criteria Appraising studies Extracting data Reproducibility and transparency Publishing equitably and knowledge translation There will be time to ask questions throughout the workshop. Please bring any questions you have! This workshop will be recorded.  Zoom link will be sent […]

  • Tools and Workflows in QGIS, Part 2

    Online/Virtual Event

    This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. Part 1 will focus on setting up a QGIS project, editing layer attributes and properties, and employing common vector tools to answer spatial questions. Part 2 will introduce more advanced visualization tools, including the Temporal Controller function, radial flow maps, and the QGIS2Web […]