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Workshops held at Musagetes Architecture Library
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Make your research more effective. This session provides you with an overview of the Library’s resources, locations, and services available to you as a faculty member or graduate student. It includes searching for books, browsing e-journals, selecting and using subject-specific and multidisciplinary databases, accessing articles using Get it @ Waterloo, and discovering who your liaison librarian is and how s/he can help you with your research.
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
This workshop is your starting point for conducting research at the Library. Learn how to find books, journals, electronic resources and more. Discover hands-on how to locate resources, access course reserves, manage your library account, collect and export references, and set up alerts for search results.
By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Tuesday | January 24 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
| Tuesday | February 7 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
| Thursday | February 16 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
| Monday | February 27 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Here is a secret: better searching can lead to better marks. In this hands-on session, you will learn advanced search strategies for effectively locating books, journal articles, and internet resources. Discover how to make better use of your time and find good sources for your papers and assignments.
By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Thursday | January 26 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Thursday | February 2 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Wednesday | March 14 | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Learn how to manage your references, create bibliographies, and format your papers in a variety of citation styles using RefWorks, a web-based citation software freely available to all Waterloo students, faculty, and staff.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Wednesday | January 25 | 9:30 am - 11:30 am |
| Wednesday | February 1 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Thursday | March 1 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Thursday | March 8 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Held in the Seminar Room, Musagetes Architecture Library.
| Thursday | February 2 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
Become a power RefWorks user! If you are already using RefWorks and Write N Cite but you would like to take better advantage of these powerful tools, this workshop is for you. In this workshop, you will learn:
To attend this workshop, you MUST have a RefWorks account with at least 20 records. Bring your own laptop with WNC III installed.
Held in DC1568, Davis Centre Library.
| Wednesday | February 8 | 9:30 am - 11:30 am |
| Tuesday | March 20 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Stay current in your field of research! Learn how to automate your searches for new and relevant research by having search results and journal tables of contents sent to you on a regular basis. Find out about the alerting services available in Web of Science and CSA databases, RSS feeds, and the Library’s search tool, Primo.
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Wednesday | February 29 | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Have you invented something? Do you need to know what technology a company has invented? Find out what patents are about, what a search can do for you, and how to do your own search. Not for the faint of heart; some searching experience will help.
By the end of this hands-on workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Thursday | February 9 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
Finding conference proceedings can be tricky! This hands-on session will introduce you to deciphering conference proceedings citations and provide you with the tools to navigate the often complicated search process.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Tuesday | February 14 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Interested in using images in your academic work? ARTstor provides you with access to over 1 million images from museums, photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives – including over 10,000 publication quality images that you can freely use in academic publications. This hands-on session will introduce you to the ARTstor digital library and how you can use ARTstor images in your instruction, handouts, presentations, publications and other educational and scholarly activities.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Wednesday | February 15 | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Learn to navigate the world of government information! Improve your government documents searching skills and ability to find various formats of government publications. Discover how to access Canadian federal and Ontario provincial government paper and electronic documents.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Friday | February 17 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Learn best practices for building a well-researched literature review. Explore how citation managers and automatic alerts can keep you organized and up-to-date.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Tuesday | February 28 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm This workshop has been cancelled |
Interested in working, studying, or volunteering abroad? This workshop introduces you to the Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas. The Big Guide is an online guide for building global career skills that contains key information on acquiring international experience, conducting international job searches, and much more. In this workshop, you will create a personal account and learn how to use this valuable resource.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Wednesday | March 7 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
The workshop provides a hands-on learning environment to explore using RefWorks (or other bibliographic management software) and any research database, with citation tracking and search alert capabilities, to maintain an accurate list of your own publications and track and collect citations of your work. The process will help you to identify the best citation tracking sources for your field, uses multiple sources to ensure all your work is tracked and maximizes citation counts. The workshop does not delve into author focused impact factors (e.g. h-index etc).
This workshop will be useful for those preparing academic advancement documentation, grant proposals, and sabbatical applications.
By the end of this hands-on workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Monday | March 19 | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
This workshop provides you with an overview of the Statistics Canada website, including effective techniques for uncovering the vast amount of statistical information available.
By the end of this hands-on workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Tuesday | March 6 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
This session provides you with an overview of ODESI, the platform for searching and downloading Statistics Canada datasets made available through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). Basic knowledge of data analysis is presumed.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.
| Wednesday | March 21 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Maps are an eye-catching and dynamic way to support your research and design work. GIS software and data allow you to create easy-to-understand, thematic maps that highlight the importance of place in the field of Architecture.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Held in the Seminar Room, Musagetes Architecture Library.
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