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. All tours run about 30 minutes. Friday, September 4 @ 12 PM Thursday, September 10 @ 2
Featured workshops for Fall 2009 include: Library Tips for Freshmen Library Tips & Tools for Mac Users Research Resources for Graduate Students in History Empower Your Browser with Zotero SciFinder Web The Mysteries of Microfilm Revealed! Research Skills for Graduate Level Education and Teaching Research Skills for Comparative Literary &
The library will be providing two EndNote workshops this summer. Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic SkillsCreating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote X2, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn: How to
A presentation for the Innovations in Education Colloquium 2009. Online Multimedia for Researchers View more OpenOffice presentations from Darren Chase.
Sharing Spatially with GeoPDFs Using data and aerial imagery of a Stony Brook University campus (e.g., Stony Brook, Southampton or Manhattan) learn how to: Manipulate layers, attach files, add comments, apply stamps Search and display object attributes, and zoom to coordinates Measure distances and change geographic projections Hyperlink GeoPDF objects
Workshop Monday, March 30, 5:30pm, Class AEverything Everywhere: an Introduction to WorldCat Search thousands of libraries worldwide Request items via Interlibrary loan Create and share resource lists Everything Everywhere: an introduction to WorldCat View more presentations from Darren Chase.
In this workshop, learn how to: Use the Google Earth user interface and the standard layers Locate and use third-party geographic data in Google Earth Create your own map features in the form of points, paths, polygons, and overlays Add information to your map features such as text, hyperlinks, and
Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Advanced Endnote For those who are using EndNote already, but have specific questions, or want to learn how to take advantage of ALL the advanced features and customization options. EndNote Advanced offers: Customize filters and output styles Attaching PDF documents, objects and images Footnotes and
LIBRARY WORKSHOPTHURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1:00pm, Class ARegister @ http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/training/libclasses.nsf/youtube Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For news (http://nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/), the arts (http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html), sciences (http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/) and everything in between (http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/index.php) there are riches of multimedia content available online.
Citation Data: H-Index, Impact Factors and Citation Alerts In this workshop, learn how to: Search your H-index, a measure of scientific productivity and impact Find journal impact factors and what that number represents Set up citation alerts and find cited reference data using the Web of Science Monday, Mar. 16
