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A new academic year also means a new series of workshops given by the Library. The Library will kick off with the Library Summer School, which – in this first edition – focuses specifically on UvA lecturers. The Summer School will last two days and offers lecturers the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills, and to learn more about open education. Lecturers will also learn how they can help their students in this respect. Themes of the workshops include: searching and finding information, using databases, dealing with data, open education, digital skills, and tools for teaching materials.

Workshops for Free

The workshops are free of charge en lecturers can decide for themselves whether they want to attend one or more workshops and which ones. Most of the workshops will be given in English. The Library Summer School consists of the following workshops:

Day 1

  1. Search strategies in bibliographical databases
  2. Searching for news sources in Nexis Uni
  3. Searching for legal information
  4. The value and necessity of open sharing of teaching material
  5. The possibilities of open textbooks

Dag 2

  1. Open teaching material and data: where to find them?
  2. Data detox for lecturers 
  3. Introduction to OpenRefine (cleaning up data)
  4. Readers and reading lists in Canvas 

Any Questions?

If you have questions you can contact:

For an overview of all the workshops the Library organises the coming months, please take a look at the agenda on the Library website.