Workshops and classes: Library, Student Learning Commons, Research Commons

A comprehensive listing of Library workshops including workshops in partnership with the Library.

(Note that this includes SFU and visiting classes that are not open to additional attendees.)

  Looking for workshops offered by the Library, Student Learning Commons, and Research Commons?

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  • subject (time management, exam preparation, academic writing, English language skills, etc.)
  • audience (undergraduate or graduate) 
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Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby) and Belzberg Library (SFU Vancouver):

For library classes held at SFU Surrey, see Workshops at Fraser Library (SFU Surrey).

 

Date Time Class Instructor Room
2023-09-27 10:00am to 12:00pm Introduction to NVivo for Mac Isaac Adedeji, Erik Mohns Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-09-27 12:30pm to 1:20pm "I'll Do It Later": Managing Procrastination Donna McGee Thompson Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-09-27 12:30pm to 1:30pm Copyright in the Classroom Workshop for Instructors [Online] Don Taylor, Jennifer Zerkee via Zoom
2023-09-27 1:00pm to 3:00pm Introduction to NVivo for Windows Isaac Adedeji, Erik Mohns Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-09-27 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-09-28 11:00am to 12:00pm A Tour of the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre Ashley Edwards Burnaby, Bennett Library, 4th floor, Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre
2023-09-28 11:30am to 12:30pm Copyright in the Classroom Workshop for Instructors [Online] Don Taylor, Jennifer Zerkee via Zoom
2023-09-29 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-09-29 9:30am to 12:00pm Mapping Census Data with R and QGIS Tong Zhang 7010: Seminar room
2023-09-29 10:00am to 12:00pm Mapping Census Data with R and QGIS Aayush Sharma Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-09-29 12:30pm to 1:20pm Level Up Your Study Skills Ruth Silverman Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-09-29 1:30pm to 3:00pm Introduction to Python (basic concepts and data structures) Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-10-03 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-10-03 11:00am to 12:30pm Criminology Honours 491 - Library Research Tutorial Yolanda Koscielski 4009: Instruction lab
2023-10-03 12:30pm to 4:30pm Introduction to R [Online] Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi, Payman Nickchi via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-03 1:30pm to 2:20pm Critical Thinking Ruth Silverman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-10-03 2:30pm to 3:20pm Critical Writing, Analysis, and Argumentation Hermine Chan, Junyi Guo Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-10-04 10:30am to 12:30pm Get Started with Tableau Public for Data Visualization [Online] Ali Moore, Rebecca Dowson via Zoom
2023-10-04 12:30pm to 4:30pm Introduction to R [Online] Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi, Payman Nickchi via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-04 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-10-04 1:30pm to 3:30pm FASS 121 Emma Brookman 2105: Instruction lab
2023-10-04 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! SLC English Group Timothy Mossman 7100: Yosef Wosk seminar room
2023-10-05 12:30pm to 4:30pm Introduction to R [Online] Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi, Payman Nickchi via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-05 3:00pm to 4:00pm Citations Made Easy: Introduction to Zotero [Online] Citation Management Team via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-06 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-10 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-10-11 9:30am to 11:30am FIC HIST 204-01 Emma Brookman 2105: Instruction lab
2023-10-11 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-10-11 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! SLC English Group Timothy Mossman 7100: Yosef Wosk seminar room
2023-10-12 10:00am to 2:30pm RMarkdown: Learn to Create Webpages, PDF Documents, and Formal Reports in RStudio Hung Truong, Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-10-12 2:00pm to 4:00pm FIC ALC099 Dawn Smaill 2105: Instruction lab
2023-10-13 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-13 10:00am to 12:00pm Mapping Census Data with R and QGIS [Online] Aayush Sharma via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-17 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-10-17 11:30am to 12:20pm Public Speaking for Your Courses and Beyond Ruth Silverman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-10-18 12:30pm to 1:20pm Time Management for Busy Students Dal Sohal Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-10-18 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-10-18 1:30pm to 2:20pm Writing Without Procrastination Graduate Writing Facilitator Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-10-19 3:00pm to 4:00pm Citations Made Easy: Introduction to Zotero [Online] Citation Management Team via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-19 3:00pm to 5:00pm Doing More with NVivo for Mac [Online] Erik Mohns, Isaac Adedeji via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-20 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-20 10:00am to 12:00pm Introduction to Spatial Thinking and ArcGIS Pro Aayush Sharma Burnaby, Bennett Library, Lab 2105
2023-10-20 1:30pm to 3:00pm Introduction to scientific Python (numpy, pandas, xarrays) Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-10-21 10:30am to 5:30pm Introduction to R (2-day workshop) Catherine Deng, Hung Truong Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-10-22 10:30am to 5:30pm Introduction to R (2-day workshop) Catherine Deng, Hung Truong Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-10-24 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-10-24 10:00am to 11:30am Unlock the potential of Volunteered Geographic Information: Exploring and downloading OpenStreetMap data [Online] Sarah Zhang via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-24 1:30pm to 3:30pm Doing More with NVivo for Windows [Online] Erik Mohns, Isaac Adedeji via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-25 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-10-26 10:30am to 11:30am A short introduction to Statistics Canada resources Carla Graebner, Sarah Zhang via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-27 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-10-27 1:00pm to 4:00pm Writing and Researching Your Literature Review Jade Ho, Julie Jones Burnaby, Bennett Library, Lab 2105
2023-10-30 2:30pm to 3:20pm Excelling in Quantitative Exams Ruth Silverman Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-10-31 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-10-31 1:00pm to 4:00pm Data Wrangling and Preprocessing With R Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi, Payman Nickchi Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-11-01 1:00pm to 3:30pm Thesis Word Template: The Basics Catherine Louie Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-11-01 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-01 3:00pm to 4:00pm Citations Made Easy: Introduction to Zotero [Online] Citation Management Team via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-03 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-03 12:30pm to 2:30pm Preparing to Publish [Online] Jade Ho, Jennifer Zerkee, Rebecca Dowson via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-06 12:30pm to 4:30pm Got Data? Use R for Data Visualization Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi, Payman Nickchi Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-11-07 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-11-07 10:30am to 12:30pm RDM@SFU Part 1: Introduction to researcher support and planning your project Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-11-07 11:30am to 12:20pm Don't Panic! Be Proactive Ruth Silverman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-07 12:30pm to 1:20pm Hot Tips for Revising Junyi Guo Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-08 10:30am to 12:00pm Creating Digital Editions using TEI [Online] Joey Takeda via Zoom
2023-11-08 10:30am to 12:30pm Making Literature Reviews Easier with NVivo for Mac [Online] Erik Mohns, Isaac Adedeji via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-08 10:30am to 12:30pm RDM@SFU Part 2: Research ethics, contracts, and data Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-11-08 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-09 10:30am to 12:30pm RDM@SFU Part 3: Data storage, computing, and publishing Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-11-10 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-14 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-11-14 10:00am to 11:00am Citations Made Easy: Introduction to Zotero [Online] Citation Management Team via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-14 1:30pm to 2:20pm Academic Reading Skills Workshop for Multilingual Students Hermine Chan Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7200
2023-11-15 10:30am to 12:30pm Making Literature Reviews Easier with NVivo for Windows [Online] Isaac Adedeji, Erik Mohns via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-15 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-17 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-17 11:30am to 12:20pm "I Know My Stuff But I Froze": Dealing with Exam Anxiety Colin Schuler Ram (Current Sci-Space Advisor), Ruth Silverman Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-11-17 1:30pm to 3:00pm Python for simple data visualization Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-11-21 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-11-22 11:30am to 12:20pm "I'll Do It Later": Managing Procrastination Dal Sohal Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-11-22 1:00pm to 2:30pm Manipulating and Handling Text Data in R [Online] Catherine Deng, Hung Truong via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-22 1:30pm to 2:30pm Let's Talk Food! Tim Mossman Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7301
2023-11-23 1:00pm to 2:30pm Manipulating and Handling Text Data in R [Online] Catherine Deng, Hung Truong via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-24 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-11-27 12:30pm to 1:20pm Level Up Your Study Skills Mohsen Hosseinpour Moghaddam Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-11-28 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom
2023-11-29 12:30pm to 1:20pm Excelling in Quantitative Exams Ruth Silverman Hybrid (Burnaby, Sci-Space AQ 3146 & Zoom)
2023-11-30 1:00pm to 2:30pm The Thesis Submission Process [Online] Catherine Louie, Peggy Fung via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-12-01 9:00am to 12:00pm Thesis Writing Group [Online] Julie Jones, Robyn Long via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins)
2023-12-01 1:30pm to 3:00pm Web scraping with Python Burnaby, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons
2023-12-05 10:00am to 12:00pm NVivo Office Hours [Online] NVivo Peer Facilitator via Zoom