Feeling stressed by the amount of time you need to spend working on assignments? Having trouble getting assignments completed on time? Find out how to make your research more productive while reducing the time spent on it. Learn: • Where…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Open Access to American History in Video
American History in Video is freely available (no username or password required) through November 15, 2009. According to the publisher, Alexander Street Press, it includes “more than 1,500 titles and 500 hours. It will continue to grow to include more…
Posted in History
EndNote Workshop at HSC on 10/8
Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills @ HSC Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn:…
Posted in Library Instruction
Xtreme Googling Workshop on 10/8
So you thought you knew Google? Watch a librarian reveal some of the secret powers of this amazing search engine. See Google challenge scholarship – and lose! Watch as Google redefines the law! Go places you never dreamed were possible…
Posted in Library Instruction
Library Tour on 10/7
Take a tour of the Melville Library’s main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you’re here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. Tour runs about 30 minutes. Date: Wednesday,…
Posted in Library Instruction
Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0
Web research is like juggling dynamite: done right it’s spectacular, done wrong it blows up in your face. Effective Web research requires training and knowledge of select tools and resources. Learn how to do it right: • 10 rules for…
Posted in Library Instruction
WorldCat Workshop at Southampton
WorldCat: The World at Your Fingertips What if there was a catalog that you could use to search almost all the books, DVDs, articles, music and other materials in all the libraries in the world? There is! With WorldCat you…
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Research Skills Workshop Online
You have a 15 page paper due and don’t know where to begin. In this workshop, learn how to: • Get started doing research• Narrow your topic• Where to look for information (books, articles, and websites)• Use subject headings and…
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Research Skills for Freshmen Workshop on 10/2
Feeling stressed by the amount of time you need to spend working on assignments? Having trouble getting assignments completed on time? Find out how to make your research more productive while reducing the time spent on it. Learn: • Where…
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EndNote Web Basics Workshop on 10/1
This workshop will demonstrate the basics of the web version of EndNote. In this session you will learn how to: • Create an EndNote Web library.• Import citations from online databases into EndNote Web.• Format a bibliography in Word using…
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