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Books about tea: a lecture of the Tea Club
Tea Club continues its meetings!
We would like to inform you that the next meeting of the Tea Club will be held on the 17th of November. The topic will be books about tea.
The oldest «tea» book is the treatise «Tea Canon» by Chinese scientist and writer Lu Yu, written in the VIII century.
And today there are a lot of books about tea ceremonies, its history in different countries, tea eqiupage and varieties of tea…
So let’s talk! We invite future guests of the club to recall what books they know about the ‘tea’ topic. Make a cup of fragrant tea and join the conversation!
We start, as usual, at 19:00 on the Zoom platform.
All the participants have to register.
Link to the Zoom conference will be sent to your e-mail on the day of the event!
Famous Poles – students of the Kyiv educational institutions
On the 11th of November 11 Poland celebrates its national holiday – Independence Day. On this day a lecture on the topic «Famous Poles – students of Kyiv educational institutions» will be held as a part of the series of historical studies «Think about it».
In the late XIX – early XX century a significant part of the population of Kyiv and Kyiv region were ethnic Poles. Many of them studied in Kyiv – at the University of St. Volodymyr, Polytechnic and Commercial Institutes, local gymnasiums and other educational institutions. Among them were well-known Polish public figures, scientists, writers, artists.
Several of the most famous names , such as Vyacheslav Lypynsky, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Bolesław Leśmian, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and others, will be mentioned during a lecture given by a well-known Kyiv historian, a graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, a longtime friend of our library – Mykhailo Kalnytskyi.
The lecture will be the first dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Kyiv Polytechnic Students Section in Poland.
So, the meeting in Zoom will take place on the 11th of November, starting at 18:00.
Link to the Zoom conference will be sent to your e-mail on the day of event!
XXI All-Ukrainian dictation of national unity
We invite students, teachers, employees of Igor Sikorsky KPI and all those who want to write the XXI All-Ukrainian dictation of national unity with the KPI Library.
As always, the event will take place on the Day of Ukrainian Literature and Language, 9th of November, from 10:00 to 11:00.
The author and reader of this year’s radio dictation will be the writer Yuriy Andrukhovych. Larysa Masenko joined the methodical work.
The time to send the finished text is 24 hours. The text of the dictation will be published on the website of Ukrainian Radio on the 11th of November at 11:00.
You can send your works:
Offline to the address: Kyiv, Khreshchatyk street, 26, 01001. It is important that the postal seal was earlier than the 10th of November;
Online your work can be sent to the email rd@ukr.radio.
After the dictation text is published, the letters are not valid.
More details by the link.
At 9:50 follow the good tradition and join the KPI Library on the Zoom platform. And let’s start our day with smiles and nice sweet words in our native language.
Please fill the form to register.
If you register, the link to the dictation in Zoom will be sent to your e-mail on the day of the event.
Webinar «How to find information for learning and research in open access»
We invite you to participate in events within the framework of the International Open Access Week and the World Media and Information Literacy Week (October 24-31).
Webinar «How to find information for learning and research in open access»
Audience: students, graduate students and any interested researchers.
Key aspects:
- Where you can search for full texts of documents 24/7
- Which electronic archives provide you with high-quality informational content while you spend hours browsing more than 100,000 Google search results
- How to search for information and save search results in Google Scholar
- How to choose free full texts of the book, articles of commercial publishers quickly.
See you online, you will receive a link to the event in a letter to the specified e-mail.
Master class «Ways of placing materials into the Igor Sikorsky KPI electronic archive (ELAKPI)»
We invite you to participate in events within the framework of the International Open Access Week and the World Media and Information Literacy Week (October 24-31).
Master class «Ways of placing materials into the Igor Sikorsky KPI electronic archive (ELAKPI)»
Audience: all interested researchers of Igor Sikorsky KPI
Key aspects:
- Why educational and scientific materials should be placed into the institutional repository
- Who can download materials to the ELAKPI
- In what formats materials are downloaded to the ELAKPI
- How to add materials to the ELAKPI.
See you online, you will receive a link to the event in a letter to the specified e-mail.
Screening of the movie «La Notte» from the PostArt project
There will be a screening of the movie «La Notte» this Friday.
Year: 1961.
Genre: drama
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau.
«La Notte» is a second movie from the ‘alienation trilogy’ of Antonioni.
The movie is focused on the complicated relationships between people.
Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau play a couple of main characters, Giovanni and Lidia. Giovanni is successful writer, while Lidia is a rich heiress. Their marriage is falling apart due to Giovanni’s self-proclaimed crisis.
While the simple plot unravels, Antonioni explores characters’ emotions, shows the loss of love and respect.
Screening is free on condition of prior registration.
Attention! The movie is screened in the original language with English subtitles.
Do not forget about the masks and keep the distance.
Webinar «Vancouver style – international style of citation and references in scientific papers»
We invite you to participate in events within the framework of the International Open Access Week and the World Media and Information Literacy Week (October 24-31).
Webinar «Vancouver style – international style of citation and references in scientific papers»
Audience: any interested scientists, teachers, graduate students, students, librarians.
Key aspects:
- Vancouver style – a common international style of citations in the field of medical and physical sciences
- Features of references in the text of the work
- Organizing the list of used sources.
See you online, you will receive a link to the event in a letter to the specified e-mail.
On the history of KPI university laboratories
We invite you to the next lecture of the cycle «Stories about the life of old study books» that will be held on the 27th of October on the Zoom platform at 19:00.
The topic of the lecture is «On the history of KPI university laboratories». Seals and stamps of various divisions of the Institute have been left on the pages of many publications of the library.
And quite a lot of them are the seals of some laboratories: «Политехническій Институтъ. Лабораторія технологіи органическихъ веществъ»; «К.П.И. Библіотека Лабораторіи неорганической химіи»; «Красильная лабораторія Киевс. Политехнич. Инст.»; «Металургічна лабораторія Київського Політехніч. Інст.»; and others.
The questions that will be the subject of the next conversation are: when the laboratories were formed, how they worked and what they taught, which of the professors supervised the practical and laboratory work.
Employees of the rare and valuable books collection will try to open another interesting page in the history of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Hurry up to register.
Link to the Zoom conference will be emailed to you on the day of event.
How do companies manage information?: lecture by Tetiana Fesenko
How not to become a fool when large companies and corporations manipulate us in crisis situations?
We will learn this from the examples of the real cases from Tetiana Fesenko, Associate Professor of Publishing and Editing, VPI, Candidate of Sciences in Social Communications.
Also we will consider:
- special methods of communication research;
- various communication techniques;
- what is relationship marketing;
- why a leader needs to be in media.
We will meet on the 25th of October at 18:00 on the Zoom platform.
Hurry up to register.
You will receive the link to Zoom to your mail on the day of the event.
Online event in the format of «question-answer» – «Open Science. Open Access. Open Data»
We invite you to participate in events within the framework of the International Open Access Week and the World Media and Information Literacy Week (October 24-31).
Online event in the format of «question-answer» – «Open Science. Open Access. Open Data»
Audience: any interested researchers of Igor Sikorsky KPI
Key aspects:
- Open Science: what the concept of ‘open science includes, what are its components, why the introduction of the paradigm of Open Science is important
- Open Access: ways of Open Access, how a researcher can support Open Access, how to provide access to research results published in embargoed journals, how to check the journal’s Open Access policy
- Open Data: why give access to the research data, where datasets can be stored, which licenses allow to share data, or should data be cited.
