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August 27, 2009

Fall Workshops @ the Library

Welcome back to campus! The library has a full lineup of faculty and student workshops this semester to help with all of your information needs. Save the date!
Fall 2009 Faculty Workshops
New Faculty Workshop
TWO SESSIONS: Thursday, Sept 3, 1-2pm and Wednesday, Sept 9, 5:30-6:30pm
Getting the Most from EBSCO Article Databases
Wednesday, Sept 16, 1-2pm
Introduction to RefWorks for Citation Management
Wednesday, Oct 7, 1-2pm
Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar
Wednesday, Oct 28, 1-2pm
Getting the Most from JSTOR and Project Muse
Wednesday, Nov 4, 1-2pm
Using PubMed to Find Biomedical Information
Wednesday, Dec 2, 1-2pm
Web 2.0 Happy Hour: The Firefox Web Browser

Tuesday, Dec 8, 5:30-7pm (this event will be held in Rm A632)
Fall 2009 Student Workshops
Finding Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Wednesday, November 18, 5:15-6pm
Research without Tears
Thursday, November 19, 1-1:45pm
Finding Scholarly Journal and Magazine Articles
Tuesday, November 24, 1-1:45pm
Finding Literary Criticism
Tuesday, December 1, 1-1:45pm
Avoiding Plagiarism in Your Coursework
Tuesday, December 1, 5:15-6pm
Good Googling: How to Evaluate Websites
Wednesday, December 2, 5:15-6pm
Using APA Style to Cite Your Sources
Thursday, December 3, 1-1:45pm
Find workshop descriptions and more information on the library website.

May 28, 2009

Summer Technology Workshops for Faculty and Students

ALL WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD IN G-604
(Back classroom in the General building, behind the 6th floor open lab)
Blackboard workshops for faculty:
Monday June 1st: 2:00-3:30pm
Wednesday June 3rd: 4:00-5:30pm
Thursday June 4th: 1:00-2:30pm
Tuesday June 9th: 1-2:30pm
Thursday July 9th: 1-2:30pm
Grade Center workshops for faculty:
Monday June 8th: 1-2pm
Tuesday June 9th: 5-6pm
Wimba workhsops for faculty:
Tuesday June 2nd: 3-4pm
Wednesday June 10th: 12-1pm
Blackboard workshops for Students:
Tuesday June 2nd: 1-2pm
Wednesday June 3rd: 1-2pm
Wednesday June 10th: 5-6pm
Thursday June 11th: 1-2pm
Thursday July 2nd: 1-2pm
Wednesday July 8th: 5-6pm

May 4, 2009

Faculty Workshop: Web 2.0 Happy Hour

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, invites all faculty to:
Web 2.0 Happy Hour
Tuesday, May 5
5:30-7:00pm
Faculty Lounge A632 (Atrium Bldg)
Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues, and learn about online technologies for teaching and scholarship:
– Twitter: a microblogging service for conversation and announcements
– Delicious: a website for organizing and sharing your bookmarks
– Google Docs: a service for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations
– RSS Feeds: receive journal publication alerts and read blogs and news websites
RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.

April 27, 2009

Faculty Workshop: EBSCO Article Databases

The City Tech Library subscribes to more than 20 EBSCO article databases covering a wide range of scholarly and professional subjects. During this workshop you’ll learn strategies to help you search these databases more effectively. We’ll also review EBSCO’s research productivity tools, from keeping lists of search results to emailing articles to creating search and journal publication alerts.
This workshop will be held on Thursday, April 30, 1-2 pm in the library classroom, A540. RSVP encouraged to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.

April 21, 2009

Anyone Can Blog (And So Can You!)

facom_library-poster-04_23_09 The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on blogs (weblogs). Blogs continue to change how scholarly ideas are expressed and exchanged, and impact teaching and learning as well. Participants will learn the basics of setting up and maintaining a blog using WordPress, and finding scholarly information in the “blogosphere.”
This workshop will be held on Thursday, April 23, 1-2 pm in the library classroom, A540. RSVP encouraged to Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.

March 27, 2009

Faculty Workshop on Open Access Publishing on 3/31

Open Access Publishing: Revolution in Scholarly Communication

The Open Access movement is revolutionizing scholarly communication—scholars are making their research freely available on the Internet. We’ll learn how and why the Open Access movement arose, the impact of recent NIH legislation, and how to find Open Access journals and other content. We’ll also discuss issues of scholarly communication outside of the traditional publishing system including peer-review, preservation, impact factor, and differences between academic disciplines. Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members.
Presenter: Prof. Monica Berger
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
VENUE: Rm. A540, 5th Floor, City Tech Library (Atrium Bldg.)
TIME: 1.00 – 2.00 p.m.
RSVP is encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.

March 20, 2009

CINAHL: A Resource for Health Professionals

Come take a closer look at a familiar tool! At Thursday’s workshop, we’ll explore strategies for finding journal articles in CINAHL, an essential database for nursing and the health professions. Topics covered include basic to advanced searching using keywords and CINAHL Headings and applying limiters for more precise results. We’ll also discuss how CINAHL search strategies can be used in the EBSCO interface of MEDLINE. All faculty are invited to attend.

Date & time: Thursday, March 26, 1-2 p.m.
Location: A540, the library’s e-classroom
Participants are encouraged to RSVP to Prof. Joan Grassano at jgrassano [at] citytech.cuny.edu
The complete schedule of faculty workshops for the Spring 2009 semester can be found here.

March 10, 2009

Faculty Workshop: Advanced RefWorks

All faculty are invited to attend this Thursday’s workshop on the specialized features of RefWorks citation management software. We’ll insert references directly into word processing documents and generate bibliographies with Write-N-Cite, create custom citation styles, and more. Participants should be familiar with RefWorks or have attended an introductory RefWorks workshop.
Date & time: Thursday, March 12, 1-2 p.m.
Location: A540, the library’s e-classroom
Participants are encouraged to RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale [at] citytech.cuny.edu
The complete schedule of faculty workshops for the Spring 2009 semester can be found here.

March 3, 2009

Today! Intro to RefWorks for Faculty

The library is repeating our Introduction to RefWorks for Citation Management workshop for faculty. Stop by Rm. A540 today (Tuesday, March 3) from 4-5pm.
Streamline your research with RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. With RefWorks it’s easy to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles. In this workshop we’ll cover the basics of using RefWorks from both on- and off-campus.

March 3, 2009

Finding Magazine Articles and Journals in EBSCO

Need to find that article for you research project? Don’t know how to get started on finding peer-reviewed journals? Find the answers to these questions and more to today, at 1:00 in the eClassroom. We’ll show you how to get started with EBSCO databases. Learn how to search, limit your search results, and how to access the databases from home!

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