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The library offers workshops to help students, faculty and staff learn how to research, reference and access library resources from their office or home computer. Library workshops are available throughout the semester, both in the Library and at Valley Road. Dates, times, and location are listed below:
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| Need extra help? Don't wait until the last minute. Make an appointment with a member of the reference staff to review Library resources. Fill out a Research Assistance Request Form and we will contact you to set up a meeting. | |||
| February | |||
| Program Title | Date | Time | Location |
| CINAHL Searching This session will review the CINAHL database and focus on effective search techniques, evaluating results, and locating journal articles for nursing. Audience: Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in Community Health and Nursing. |
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 5:00-6:00 PM | Library, Library, Instruction Classroom, Room L-01 |
| Education Research Series: Using ERIC and Education Abstracts with RefWorks Looking for information about education topics? Need help with APA formatting? These workshops focus on online Library resources (ERIC, RefWorks, etc.) that can help you meet the challenges of your Education courses. All sessions are customized to meet your needs Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and anyone interested in an introduction to the Education literature. |
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | 1600 Valley Road, Room V1021 |
| CINAHL Searching This session will review the CINAHL database and focus on effective search techniques, evaluating results, and locating journal articles for Nursing. Audience: Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in Community Health and Nursing. |
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Instruction Classroom, Room L-01 |
| Introducing RefWorks: Building and Generating Bibliographies RefWorks is a web-based, personalized system for managing citations and notes for research projects of any size. This session covers creating an account, adding citation records from online catalogs, databases and other sources, and using RefWorks to produce bibliographies formatted in any major style. Audience: Students and faculty writing a research paper, literature review, thesis, or scholarly article. |
Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
| FMGOnDemand Streaming Video for Courses Learn how to incorporate educational video into your classes, using FMGOnDemand (formerly Films Media Group, Inc.). This session will teach you how to utilize any of the Library's more than 120 videos to create customized streaming video clips for the classroom, online courses, or to your students from home (example: http://www.fmgondemand.com/play/SDYUQL). Audience: Faculty. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | 12:30-1:45 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
| Education Research Series: Using ERIC and Education Abstracts with RefWorks Looking for information about education topics? Need help with APA formatting? These workshops focus on online Library resources (ERIC, RefWorks, etc.) that can help you meet the challenges of your Education courses. All sessions are customized to meet your needs Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and anyone interested in an introduction to the Education literature. |
Wednesday, February 26, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | 1600 Valley Road, Room V1020 |
| Advanced RefWorks: Customizing Bibliographies and Formatting Papers This session, intended for those with a basic knowledge of RefWorks, covers how to use the Output Style Editor to modify the content and appearance of bibliographies and how to use RefWorks to format a paper. Audience: Graduate students and faculty writing a research paper, literature review, thesis, or scholarly article. |
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
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| March | |||
| Program Title | Date | Time | Location |
| Education Research Series: Using ERIC and Education Abstracts with RefWorks Looking for information about education topics? Need help with APA formatting? These workshops focus on online Library resources (ERIC, RefWorks, etc.) that can help you meet the challenges of your Education courses. All sessions are customized to meet your needs Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and anyone interested in an introduction to the Education literature. |
Monday, March 10, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | 1600 Valley Road, Room V1020 |
| Introducing RefWorks: Building and Generating Bibliographies RefWorks is a web-based, personalized system for managing citations and notes for research projects of any size. This session covers creating an account, adding citation records from online catalogs, databases and other sources, and using RefWorks to produce bibliographies formatted in any major style. Audience: Students and faculty writing a research paper, literature review, thesis, or scholarly article. |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
| Advanced RefWorks: Customizing Bibliographies and Formatting Papers This session, intended for those with a basic knowledge of RefWorks, covers how to use the Output Style Editor to modify the content and appearance of bibliographies and how to use RefWorks to format a paper. Audience: Graduate students and faculty writing a research paper, literature review, thesis, or scholarly article. |
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
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| April | |||
| Program Title | Date | Time | Location |
| FMGOnDemand Streaming Video for Courses Learn how to incorporate educational video into your classes, using FMGOnDemand (formerly Films Media Group, Inc.). This session will teach you how to utilize any of the Library's more than 120 videos to create customized streaming video clips for the classroom, online courses, or to your students from home (example: http://www.fmgondemand.com/play/SDYUQL). Audience: Faculty. |
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | 12:30-1:45 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
| Education Research Series: Using ERIC and Education Abstracts with RefWorks Looking for information about education topics? Need help with APA formatting? These workshops focus on online Library resources (ERIC, RefWorks, etc.) that can help you meet the challenges of your Education courses. All sessions are customized to meet your needs Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and anyone interested in an introduction to the Education literature. |
Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | 1600 Valley Road, Room V1020 |
| Locating and Using Geographic Data Geographic or geospatial data can be used to support a wide range of research goals and decision-making tasks in fields like health, environmental studies, education, business, politics, urban studies, and other fields. This introductory workshop will survey some of the most useful and easily accessible data sources for student research, review common data types, and acquaint you with Arc Explorer, a free educational Geographic Information Systems program that can be downloaded and installed from the web. Audience: Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. |
Monday, November 5, 2008 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Library, Amy Job Classroom |
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