The Cheng Library’s Spring Workshops Series – We Invite You to Attend Workshops scheduled for the spring semester are open to the University community. Each semester, the staff of the Cheng Library presents a series of workshops to inform the University community of new resources and potentially valuable products and services. This semester the list of workshops includes introductions to some of our specialized e-resources and skill-building workshops for creating and customizing bibliographies. These workshops are designed to address both novice and expert library users – and all workshops can be customized to the users’ needs. One workshop, titled “E-Books for Everyone” serves both as an introductory session and as an opportunity to strengthen one’s skill in using our e-book collections. This type of workshop is designed to answer the questions of those attending – whatever their level of familiarity or expertise. Workshops are also often designed to provide guidance in using specialized electronic resources. Some of these products may be overlooked by students not familiar with the Library’s many subscription databases. These sessions concentrate on locating financial or statistical data or researching company and industry information. One workshop that has proved popular with faculty focuses on using the Pivot database to identify potential grant-funding opportunities. Graduate students and those enrolled in thesis courses often attend the RefWorks workshops to become familiar with this powerful bibliography and citation management software. This semester, the list of workshops includes: The PIVOT Database for Faculty: Locating Grant Funding and Collaborators, Finding and Using Economic and Financial Data, Designing High-Quality Survey Questionnaires Using Library Resources, Finding and Using Statistical Data for Social Science Research, Researching Company and Industry Information, Introducing RefWorks and RefShare: Building, Generating, and Sharing Bibliographies, Advanced RefWorks: Customizing Bibliographies and Formatting Papers, Using APA Citations for Business Sources, E-Books for Everyone. For a complete list of the workshops for the spring 2016 semester, connect to https://libservices.wpunj.edu/library/Workshops/library-workshops.cfm If the date or time of these workshops is not convenient, please contact the Cheng Library for a personalized session. Email libresearch@wpunj.edu to schedule a session. February 29, 2016