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Upgrade your research skills with our winter workshops1

Upgrade your research skills with our winter workshops!

The Winter schedule has ended. Check back soon for our Spring schedule.

Winter 2013 Schedule

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for any of these workshops.

Please contact your subject librarian or Ask a Librarian if you have any questions!

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New Faculty and Grad Students: Library Tools & Services for Effective Research

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, brief introduction to RefWorks citation manager, and discovering how your liaison librarian can help you with your research.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

These sessions are now over.

Find Books and More!

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.

Find Books and More! workshops are now over.

Better Searching – Better Marks

Make smart use of your time: better searching can lead to better marks. Learn to construct searches that provide the information you need, rather than a million useless hits. In this hands-on session learn advanced techniques to locate books, journal articles, and web resources.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.

These sessions are now over.

Introduction to RefWorks

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.

Introduction to RefWorks sessions are now over.

Advanced RefWorks

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 FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.

Advaned RefWorks workshops are now over.


Keep Current with Research Alerts

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.

This workshop is now over.


Mapping with Esri ArcGIS Desktop 10.1

Would you like to create a map for your course assignment or research project but don’t know where to start? This workshop will teach you the basics with the popular Esri ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 program. You will learn how to add GIS data, how to create simple maps, and where to find GIS data and resources.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Mapping with Esri ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 is now over.

Accessing Government Information

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:

Accessing Government Information is now over.

GIS Analysis with Esri ArcGIS Desktop 10.1

Would you like to perform a GIS analysis for your course assignment or research project but don’t know where to begin? This workshop will teach you the most frequently used GIS analysis tools: buffer, clip, select by location or attribute.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.

This workshop is now over.


Research Competencies

Would you like to learn how to use other sources of information besides Google? Come prepared with 3 – 5 research questions and learn how to match up the information you need with the library’s resources.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Held in the FLEX Lab, 3rd floor, Dana Porter Library.

This workshop is now over.

 

Calculating Your Academic Footprint: Making Citation Tracking Easy

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.

This workshop is now over.


Demystifying the Statistics Canada Website

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.

This workshop is now over.


Data Retrieval from Statistics Canada Surveys

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.

This workshop is now over.

Finding Conference Proceedings

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.

This workshop is now over.

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March 20, 2013