It's time for an adventure! Destination: Space. This week we’ll explore a selection of materials from the Samuel Herrick Papers including his work on Project Mercury, consultation on the film “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951), and work on Minor Planets. You can learn more about Herrick and the collection in the finding aid here: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/resources/1323.oai_ead.xml

Join our community collections archivist, Anthony Wright de Hernandez, for a livestream on Twitch! Every week we explore and discuss materials from Special Collections and University Archives covering topics including university history, NASA pioneers, architecture, science fiction, cooking, LGBTQ+ history, Black history, urban legends, and more. Recordings of previous streams are available on the Libaries' Youtube page.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 business days prior to the event.

You need to write a literature review for your research or class... but how do you get started? What kinds of literature reviews are there? Where should you search? How do you search efficiently and effectively? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this interactive workshop.

By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

• Identify different types of literature reviews
• Find relevant engineering and related databases
• Create effective searches

This workshop will focus on research in engineering, including computer science. Participants from other disciplines are welcome, but should be aware of the disciplinary focus of this workshop. 

This session will be offered live via Zoom and will be recorded and sent out afterwards to all who register. While we encourage attendance during the live virtual session so that you can interact with the instructor and ask questions, you're welcome to sign up for the session to receive the recording of it afterwards even if you can't attend it live. 

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email lisab5@vt.edu at least 10 business days prior to the event.

This workshop provides a guided introduction to building and administering online surveys on the QuestionPro platform. It provides instructions and examples of a wide range of standard features including creating surveys, using standard and advanced question types, using survey logic to improve user experience or conduct experiments, and sending surveys to potential participants.

This workshop (combined with Surveys 112) is also available to faculty and graduate students as a self-paced online course through the PDN.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop familiarity and comfort navigating major areas of the QuestionPro interface
• Identify survey common question types implemented in QuestionPro
• Create clear, accessible and relevant questions for an online QuestionPro survey
• Distinguish skip, display and branching survey logic and identify which is useful for a specific goal
• Evaluate survey distribution options and their limitations for a project

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please email library-event-accessibility-g@vt.edu at least 10 business days prior to the event.