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Personal Privacy & Your Phone
If you're thinking about your digital privacy, then you know that your phone is probably not very private. In this hands-on workshop, we'll help you assess what information your phone is leaking, think through what steps you can take to plug up the leaks without losing functionality, and spend some time adjusting settings and apps to be more privacy-friendly.
Part of 2025 UW Libraries "Most Wanted" Summer Series.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mrunnels@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Research Impact Workshop (Online)
Understanding your research impact goes beyond traditional citations. In this workshop, we’ll explore how author profiles help showcase your publications and how altmetrics provide real-time insights into the broader reach of your work. Learn how to track online engagement, connect your research to global conversations, and enhance your visibility using tools like ORCID, Dimensions author profiles, and the Altmetric Bookmarklet. Whether you're looking to strengthen your online presence or demonstrate impact for funding and career opportunities, this session will provide practical strategies to make your research stand out.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: olivex@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Creative Commons
Would you like to use media without rights restrictions? Would you like to allow others to use or adapt your work? You can do both with the Creative Commons (CC)! Join us to learn how the CC makes it easy to share work and discover works you can use without cost or worry.
Sign up here to attend this workshop.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mfakouri@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Celebrating the Legacy of Nicolette Bromberg
Special Collections
Join colleagues and friends of the late Visual Materials Curator Nicolette Bromberg as we celebrate her life and her legacy of photography preservation in Special Collections.
This event offers a first look at selections of her personal photography from the Nicolette Bromberg Photographs collection now added to Special Collections.
Brief remarks will begin at 4:15 p.m: David Martin, Cascadia Art Museum and co-author with Nicolette of Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and the Seattle Camera Club , Susan Peskura, longtime volunteer and former President of the Friends of the UW Libraries , Joyce Agee, former Associate Director of Libraries Advancement, All are welcome. Light appetizers and sweet treats will be served. To assist with planning, please consider registering in advance. For those unable to attend in person, join us for the introductory remarks via Zoom.
If you would like to share a memory or anecdote about Nicolette, please share them here.
For anyone wishing to make a gift in…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Petersen Room. Accessibility Contact: lisanne@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Meetings.
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Introduction to Text Mining (In Person)
Discover the power of text mining in this interactive workshop, where you will learn techniques for collecting, cleaning, and analyzing textual data through hands-on exercises using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. In this session, you will: Learn methods for scraping and extracting text from web sources. , Gain skills in preprocessing textual data, such as removing HTML tags, tokenization, and handling stop words. , Explore techniques for visualizing and analyzing word frequencies to uncover hidden themes and trends. , Use deep learning models to identify relevant text by analyzing semantic similarity.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: jcols@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, June 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Introduction to Text Mining (Online)
Discover the power of text mining in this interactive workshop, where you will learn techniques for collecting, cleaning, and analyzing textual data through hands-on exercises using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. In this session, you will: Learn methods for scraping and extracting text from web sources. , Gain skills in preprocessing textual data, such as removing HTML tags, tokenization, and handling stop words. , Explore techniques for visualizing and analyzing word frequencies to uncover hidden themes and trends. , Use deep learning models to identify relevant text by analyzing semantic similarity.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jcols@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, June 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Publish & Protect Your Research: Build a Book Fast with Manifold
Learn how to create the world's fastest book using the Manifold digital book publishing platform! Manifold offers the opportunity to upload texts, seamlessly integrate images, media, and more into your text, and allows users to annotate texts within the platform. You'll come away from this workshop with a text of your choice (either your own or a sample text that will be provided) loaded into Manifold with images added to the text. This workshop includes a mix of lectures and hands-on time that you’ll spend learning to build your own digital book.
This event will be online via Zoom. Please register before the workshop to receive your Manifold account.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: dburns5@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Monday, June 30, 2025, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
Publishing on the Cheap: Share Your Research Without Breaking the Bank (In Person)
Want to share your research with the world but can't afford expensive article processing charges (APCs)? You're not alone—and you have more options than you might think. Join us to discover cost-effective strategies for making your research openly available online. In this practical workshop, you'll learn: How to leverage UW Libraries' agreements with some open access publishers for reduced or waived fees , Alternative ways to share your work openly, even when publishing in traditional subscription journals , Platforms for data sharing and digital scholarship that bypass the conventional journal system entirely, Whether you're a student, postdoc, or faculty member, you'll leave with actionable strategies to let you embrace open scholarship with budget-friendly solutions.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: ebedford@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Publishing on the Cheap: Share Your Research Without Breaking the Bank (Online)
Want to share your research with the world but can't afford expensive article processing charges (APCs)? You're not alone—and you have more options than you might think. Join us to discover cost-effective strategies for making your research openly available online. In this practical workshop, you'll learn: How to leverage UW Libraries' agreements with some open access publishers for reduced or waived fees , Alternative ways to share your work openly, even when publishing in traditional subscription journals , Platforms for data sharing and digital scholarship that bypass the conventional journal system entirely, Whether you're a student, postdoc, or faculty member, you'll leave with actionable strategies to let you embrace open scholarship with budget-friendly solutions.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ebedford@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Independence Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, July 4, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Research Data Management Workshop
Do you create or use data in your research? Looking for tips and tools to better help you manage your research data, and preserve it for long-term use?
Twice a year, the UW Libraries offers Research Data Management Planning, an asynchronous online workshop for UW community members engaged in research with data. Topics include getting started with data management planning, funder requirements for data sharing, metadata, tips to help keep you organized, sharing, archiving and preservation, and an introduction to tools and on-campus support to aid researchers. The primary audience is graduate students and new staff and faculty, but anyone with a UW NetID can register.
Register here, Waitlist.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: sfpine@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Monday, July 7, 2025 – Friday, July 11, 2025.
Publishing Contracts
Congratulations, you’re an author! This workshop will help you to understand authors’ rights to their work and what publishers often ask authors to agree to. We’ll examine main areas of publication agreements and discuss negotiation strategies.
Sign up here to attend this workshop.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mfakouri@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Labor Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, September 1, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Graduate Student Research Institute
GSRI is a free online workshop and will take place asynchronously over a 5 day period. Each day will consist of: an introduction to a new research topic and skill; a tour of specific resources to help you get started; a choice of activities to practice skills and become familiar with resources; an opportunity for discussion to help you engage with the material and your peers.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: uwlibidteam@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: incoming graduate students.
Monday, September 8, 2025 – Friday, September 12, 2025.
For more info visit sites.uw.edu.