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Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio - Level One: Gaming Homework - How to Level Up Your Assignments (In Person)
Level One: Gaming Homework – Level Up Your Assignments
Kick off the Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio with our first session: Level One: Gaming Homework – Level Up Your Assignments. In this introductory meeting, we’ll get to know one another, talk about how we want to shape future studio sessions, and dive into our first collaborative topic: how to turn traditional assignments into engaging, game-inspired experiences. Together, we’ll explore practical approaches to gamifying coursework—whether you're teaching, learning, or designing—and share ideas for bringing more play, motivation, and creativity into educational contexts. Expect an informal, hands-on workshop that welcomes all levels of experience.
Whether you're a game designer, educator, researcher, or just curious about how games can transform learning, this is your invitation to co-create a space for playful scholarship. Come ready to brainstorm, share, and level up!
*The Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio is a peer-driven space for exploring…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio - Level One: Gaming Homework - How to Level Up Your Assignments (Online)
Level One: Gaming Homework – Level Up Your Assignments
Kick off the Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio with our first session: Level One: Gaming Homework – Level Up Your Assignments. In this introductory meeting, we’ll get to know one another, talk about how we want to shape future studio sessions, and dive into our first collaborative topic: how to turn traditional assignments into engaging, game-inspired experiences. Together, we’ll explore practical approaches to gamifying coursework—whether you're teaching, learning, or designing—and share ideas for bringing more play, motivation, and creativity into educational contexts. Expect an informal, hands-on workshop that welcomes all levels of experience.
Whether you're a game designer, educator, researcher, or just curious about how games can transform learning, this is your invitation to co-create a space for playful scholarship. Come ready to brainstorm, share, and level up!
*The Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio is a peer-driven space for exploring…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
UW Theses and Dissertations
For many students, the thesis or dissertation represents one of their first forays into publicly disseminating the products of their scholarship. This webinar will give an overview of the copyright and publishing issues students should consider, and demonstrate how their decisions are reflected in the ETDAdministrator system. It will offer the opportunity for students to think through their options for how and when to share their work, and to ask questions about the process.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ebedford@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Workshops.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Sound Studio Office Hours
Come to the Sound Studio with any audio-related needs! It's the perfect opportunity to get more personalized help or advice, as well as any refreshers you may need to use the studio more effectively. Feel free to drop by any time from 1-2PM, every Wednesday!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: OUGL 246. Accessibility Contact: Accessibility questions or requests for this workshop should be directed to help@uw.edu with “Learning Technologies Workshops accessibility” in the subject line. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Sound Studio Office Hours
Come to the Sound Studio with any audio-related needs! It's the perfect opportunity to get more personalized help or advice, as well as any refreshers you may need to use the studio more effectively. Feel free to drop by any time from 1-2PM, every Wednesday!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: OUGL 246. Accessibility Contact: Accessibility questions or requests for this workshop should be directed to help@uw.edu with “Learning Technologies Workshops accessibility” in the subject line. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. From the Field: Conversations with Library, Archive, Museum & Gallery Professionals (In Person)
Are you curious about where your MLIS can take you beyond the traditional library setting? Join us for “From the Field: Conversations with Library, Archive, Museum & Gallery Professionals,” a lively and informative panel featuring working professionals from across the cultural heritage field.
This panel brings together librarians, archivists, curators, and other experts currently working in libraries, archives, museums, and galleries to share what their jobs are really like. They’ll talk about their career paths, the day-to-day realities of their work, and how their roles overlap and diverge across institutions. You’ll hear firsthand how they got started, what skills have been most useful, and what advice they have for MLIS students looking to break into these diverse fields.
Whether you’re already set on a specific path or just exploring your options, this is a great opportunity to gain insight, ask questions, and build connections.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit calma.ischool.uw.edu. From the Field: Conversations with Library, Archive, Museum & Gallery Professionals (Zoom)
Are you curious about where your MLIS can take you beyond the traditional library setting? Join us for “From the Field: Conversations with Library, Archive, Museum & Gallery Professionals,” a lively and informative panel featuring working professionals from across the cultural heritage field.
This panel brings together librarians, archivists, curators, and other experts currently working in libraries, archives, museums, and galleries to share what their jobs are really like. They’ll talk about their career paths, the day-to-day realities of their work, and how their roles overlap and diverge across institutions. You’ll hear firsthand how they got started, what skills have been most useful, and what advice they have for MLIS students looking to break into these diverse fields.
Whether you’re already set on a specific path or just exploring your options, this is a great opportunity to gain insight, ask questions, and build connections.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit calma.ischool.uw.edu. Excel for Personal Use
If you're looking to become more organized or want to use Excel more this workshop is for you! In this course you will learn how to use Excel to make simple checklists, budget trackers, assignment trackers, calendars, and schedules. We will go over some of the templates that Excel has already, and then learn how to make our own basic versions! This is a great opportunity to learn not only how to incorporate Excel into everyday life, but to also learn more Excel tips and tricks.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: OUGL 102. Accessibility Contact: Accessibility questions or requests for this workshop should be directed to help@uw.edu with “Learning Technologies Workshops accessibility” in the subject line. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Basics of Excel
Have little or no experience using Excel? This beginner level workshop is a great place to get comfortable with the basic tools of Excel! Learn about the different uses of Excel, how to use a handful of helpful features, and practice formatting data in the program. This is a great opportunity for people who may be unfamiliar with Excel and will need it for classes requiring data management and analysis or for those looking to use the program for other organizational purposes. This workshop will give a rundown of the Excel layout, introduce simple Excel features and skills, time to practice these concepts, and time for questions throughout.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: OUGL 102. Accessibility Contact: Accessibility questions or requests for this workshop should be directed to help@uw.edu with “Learning Technologies Workshops accessibility” in the subject line. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Computing With Classics: Digital Sustainability (In Person)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this last workshop, we will look at how research is done in computing fields and how it relates to the work we do in classics. We'll also discuss best practices for digital sustainability.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Computing With Classics: Digital Sustainability (Online)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this last workshop, we will look at how research is done in computing fields and how it relates to the work we do in classics. We'll also discuss best practices for digital sustainability.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97709341357. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Open Scholarship Commons Digital Media Festival (In Person)
Join us for the Digital Media Festival, a hybrid, drop-in celebration of digital scholarship and creative research happening across the University of Washington. This event will showcase innovative projects from students, faculty, and staff, featuring scholarly videos, podcasts, games, digital zines, data visualizations, interactive maps, and more. Whether completed or still in progress, these works highlight how digital media is transforming the way we explore, present, and share ideas.
Presenters will share their work in brief, engaging sessions designed to spark conversation and curiosity, with time built in for audience questions and feedback. Join us in celebrating creativity, connection, and the future of digital scholarship at UW!
All members of the UW community are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided for in-person guests.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Open Scholarship Commons Digital Media Festival (Online)
Join us for the Digital Media Festival, a hybrid, drop-in celebration of digital scholarship and creative research happening across the University of Washington. This event will showcase innovative projects from students, faculty, and staff, featuring scholarly videos, podcasts, games, digital zines, data visualizations, interactive maps, and more. Whether completed or still in progress, these works highlight how digital media is transforming the way we explore, present, and share ideas.
Presenters will share their work in brief, engaging sessions designed to spark conversation and curiosity, with time built in for audience questions and feedback. Join us in celebrating creativity, connection, and the future of digital scholarship at UW!
All members of the UW community are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided for in-person guests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
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.
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.
Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
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.
Digital Scholarship Project Help Office Hours
Learn about getting started with digital projects at UW. We offer consultations for research and course related projects. Examples include support for digital publishing, building digital exhibits, and more! We can help you find the right tools, resources and instruction whether you’re just getting started or are working on an on-going project. Come ask us about the Libraries digital scholarship infrastructure tools (Manifold, Omeka, etc.). This service is available only to current UW faculty, students, and staff.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Group Work Space B. Accessibility Contact: oscstaff@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, staff, post-docs.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.