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Downtown Campus Library is bringing you a series of workshops and study breaks to help you achieve your goals this semester.

Join us on September 5th at 1:00PM at the Downtown Campus Library in room 265 of the Doctor Philips Academic Commons to learn more about bullet journaling and how it can keep you organized.

On September 12th at 1:00PM work with library staff to develop a vision board. This visualization exercise will help you display your future goals in a concrete, tangible way.

Our last workshop in our Froggy Productivity Series will be on September 19th at 1:00 P.M. in DPAC 455. Our staff will introduce you to the productivity software Notion. This app offers free membership to students, and it is a great way to streamline and organize tasks.

If you can’t make it to one of our workshops, the library is providing “study breaks.” These are quick, takeaway activities that will help you with time management and mindfulness. Visit the Downtown Library in DPAC 265 from September 4th through 15th to get a Time Management with Pomodoro worksheet. From September 18th through September 29th, we will be distributing worksheets for our mindfulness challenge.

Any UCF or Valencia student who participates in three events or study breaks will be eligible for a prize drawing. Attend more events and study breaks to increase your chances of winning!

Downtown Campus Library is celebrating National Crafting Month by hosting a beginner’s crochet workshop with Gaby Gomez. Gaby is a certified crochet instructor by the Craft Yarn Council. She has been teaching the art of crochet since 2017, and she can’t wait to inspire you with the craft!

This workshop will be teaching participants four crochet techniques: cast-on, chain, single stitch and weaving, to create a lovely bookmark.

The workshop will occur on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Register for the event here. Yarn and crochet hooks will be provided to the first 20 registrants.

Downtown Campus Library is hosting a zine workshop on April 20th in DPAC 455 at 1:00 PM.

zine (noun): a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized or unconventional subject matter.

Join Chris Saclolo, UCF Libraries’ book conservator in a workshop on the basics of making your very own zine.

Markers, pens, scissors, and glue will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own magazines and poetry to aid in their zine’s creation.

As a part of the 2021 Research Computing and Data Workshop Series, the UCF Libraries presents a Spring 2021 Foundations of Data Management Library Workshop Series starting this February. We will hold a monthly workshop for the next three months remotely via Zoom, covering topics like finding data sources from a multi-disciplinary perspective, how to manage your data properly, and how to maximize the impact of your research. Come join us!

Are you looking to save time and become a better researcher? Join us online for Research Tips Tuesdays! This semester we will be offering workshops on breaking down your research topics, using articles to find other sources for your research, understanding basic stats in journal articles and apps that can help you study.

Our first session, Breaking Down Your Research Topic, will take place on January 21, 2020 10:30-11:30 AM. We will explore ways to:

• identify the core concepts related to your research topic
• use those core concepts to find supporting research
• use your topic breakdown to organize your writing

RSVP online at http://guides.ucf.edu/rtt