Workshops & Tutorials

The Library offers many opportunities to learn about our services and resources through Workshops and online Tutorials.  To learn more, check out the options, below.

Workshops
Each semester, new workshops are offered to students, faculty and staff.  Take a look at our upcoming sessions for this semester!

Instruction On Demand
These short tutorials, each taking about 5 minutes, are a great way to get quick answers about the library and the services we offer.  Look for the icon, throughout the library website to access these videos, on demand!

These videos may require that you have the Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer.  It can be downloaded, for free, from the Adobe website's Downloads page.

• PsycINFO tutorial
  This series of short tutorials will introduce the PsycINFO database and show you the ins-and-outs of searching, narrowing your results, and finding full-text articles for your psychology research!
  

• Searching Journals & Periodicals
  If you're looking for a specific article, or your professor wants to you to search only in a certain journal, this short video can show you how.
• Requesting Articles through Interlibrary Loan
  This short video will explain the Cheng Library's Interlibrary Loan service, that can help you get those hard to locate articles, for your research.
• Electronic Reserves at the Cheng Library
  This short video will introduce you to Electronic Reserves at the Cheng Library, and show you how to find them on the Library website.
• Scholarly v. Popular
  Learn the differences between scholarly and popular articles, and the peer review process!