GSRI is made up of three major components:

Content, e.g. information and links to resources about research.
Activities, e.g. suggestions for how to practice and prepare to conduct research;
Community, e.g. online interactions with GSRI mentors and student peers.

Each of these components is designed to be customizable to where you are today as a graduate student and researcher. For instance:

Use Modules to jump to the content that is most pertinent to your program or interests.
Use "Activity Breakout" pages to find the exercises that best advance your skills.
Use the GSRI Slack to connect with peers and get personalized support from mentors.

Why GSRI mentors?

Formal and informal mentorship is a key piece of the graduate student experience. In GSRI, our mentors are library staff with advanced knowledge of different kinds of research, and are here to provide tailored support that you can carry forward into the rest of your graduate career.

Why Slack?

Slack is an online communication platform that allows for communication via targeted channels, direct messaging, and file sharing. It is more informal than Canvas, and makes it easy to connect asynchronously with mentors as well as other GSRI students. For instance, there are channels to help connect students by discipline and campus. You can join as many channels as you want -- or create channels based on your own interests and affinities! Learn more about how to use this tool on the Slack help page.

Visit the GSRI Slack Workspace:

~~Session A: August 24 - August 28, 2020~~ (deleted 9/30/20)
~~Session B: August 31 - September 4, 2020~~ (deleted 9/30/20)

Session-specific Slack invitations will be sent to students on the first day of their session.

In Slack:

Once you have joined the appropriate GSRI Slack Workspace, head into your #01-gsri-cohort channel to meet your mentors and introduce yourself.
Click the "+" next to channels in the left sidebar to join channels tailored to your #02-discipline and #03-campus -- or create your own channel! The GSRI Slack is intended to be a space for connection and conversation.