Research Workshops This Week

Before you take off for Winter Break and then Spring Holiday, you may want to take advantage of the four workshops that Carlson Library is offering this week.

Wednesday, March 5:
11:00 - 11:50 RefWorks: Creating a Customized Citation Database
2:00 - 2:50 Is it Plagiarism Yet?

Thursday, March 6:
11:00 - 11:50 Evaluating Web Sites - Trash or Treasure?
2:00 - 2:50 Searching the Internet: Best of the Web

RefWorks: Creating a Customized Citation Database focuses on a new tool to help you manage and format bibliographies for your papers. You can export citations from many databases into RefWorks, and then format the citations into bibliographies using RefWorks' hundreds of available output styles. Attend this session to learn how this tool can save you much time and effort!

Is it Plagiarism Yet? will help you to avoid research practices and mistakes that could have dreadful consequences for your grade. Attend this session to learn more about plagiarism and tips to avoid it.

Evaluating Web Sites - Trash or Treasure? is designed to help you determine which Web sites are credible and authoritative and which ones have unsubstantiated “facts” and opinions. At this session you will learn about criteria that you can use to critically evaluate Web sites.

Searching the Internet: Best of the Web is a great way to learn about strategies, tips, and specialized search engines to help you focus your results and locate higher quality information on the Web.

These sessions, held in room 201 in Carlson Library are open to all students. Attendance sign-in sheets will be collected and made available to professors (upon request) wishing to track student attendance.Space is limited. If you would like to reserve a seat or if you are a faculty member and would like to reserve multiple seats for your classes, please contact Ms. Karen Sheesman at 814-393-1841.

Library Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 22

http://www.clarion.edu/library/news/index.htm