K-State Libraries is excited to announce Graduate Student Library Day on January 22, 2009 and Faculty/Graduate Student Library Day on February 18, 2009. These classes were developed to meet faculty research needs and highlight multi-disciplinary resources. The classes will run for 50 minutes. Library Day is a little different than what we’ve done in the past: rather than spread library workshops throughout a semester, we are offering them all in one day, much like a conference. Three concurrent sessions will be offered in the morning at 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30; the classes will be repeated in the afternoon at 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30. You are welcome to come for just one workshop, attend a couple, or stay for all of them.
ARTstor Essentials
Need images for your research, or for teaching purposes? Anyone with an interest in visual culture should try ARTstor -- a growing repository of digital images with tools for viewing and managing images. ARTstor images encompass many time periods and cultures, and the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Learn the ARTstor essentials: how to find, view, crop, save, and print images, create image groups and use folders. This class is a prerequisite for Teaching with ARTstor.
January 22: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
February 18: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
Teaching with ARTstor
Librarians at K-State have been selecting digital collections that bring far-flung archives and primary source materials to your desktop. Whether you are teaching or researching, you will be delighted with the spectrum of videos, scanned periodicals, and journals and diaries now available through K-State Libraries. Stop in and learn about this spectrum of resources including: American History in Video, Historical New York Times, American Periodical Series, the Alexander Street Press group (primary documents), Early English Books Online, Harper's Weekly, Historical New York Times and more.
January 22: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
February 18: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
Finding Primary Source Materials....Online!
The law touches nearly every part of our lives, from how we conduct our personal lives to the way we work. This class will introduce attendees to resources available at K-State Libraries for anyone needing to find legal resources. Learn about the difference between decisions, statutes, regulations and codes, and where you can find them. Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
February 18: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
Web of Knowledge--your uber databases
The Web of Knowledge databases (Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, CABI, and more) are powerful databases through which you can search by taxonomy, cited references, geographic regions and more. Come learn to search by subject or author in more than 8,000 journals. The session will also cover "cited references" searching to determine where and how frequently an article has been cited.
January 22: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
February 18: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
Dissertations and Theses Full Text and ERIC Combo Class
This session will feature two invaluable databases in higher education: Dissertations Full Text and ERIC. Feel free to come for one or stay for both!
Dissertations and Theses Full Text includes 2.14 million citations for dissertations and theses published around the world from 1861 to today. The full text of 1 million dissertations can be downloaded as PDFs from this database. Some full text dissertations include the appendices and survey instruments. Learn a variety of methods of searching for the full text of dissertations. (First 30 minutes)
The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. While commonly thought to focus on K-12 materials, ERIC also includes many resources relating to learning and administration in higher education. Learn how to use the ERIC controlled vocabulary and thesaurus to formulate stronger searches. (Second 20 minutes) Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
February 18: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
Customize your laptop and Find It/Get Combo Class
This session will prepare you and your laptop so that you can spend your time researching, not trying to figure out where stuff is. The first part of the class will featuure Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery, in the second half you will customizie your laptop so that your research tools are just a click away. Feel free to come for one or stay for both!
Interlibrary Loan extends your access to published research materials beyond K-State Libraries’ collections. Learn how to increase your productivity with expert guidance to the Interlibrary Loan System and complementary (and complimentary) document delivery of items from our shelves. (First 20 minutes). Also, bring your laptop: we'll help you hook it up with all of the shortcuts, tricks, and tools that will meet your teaching and research needs. (Last 30 minutes)
Interlibrary Loan extends your access to published research materials beyond K-State Libraries’ collections. Learn how to increase your productivity with this expert guidance to the Interlibrary Loan System and complementary (and complimentary) document delivery of items from our shelves. (First 20 minutes)
Digital Collections or, cool databases you never knew we had--librarians at K-State have been selecting digital collections that bring far-flung archives and primary source materials to your desktop. Stop in and learn about this spectrum of resources including: American History in Video, Historical New York Times, American Periodical Series, the Alexander Street Press group (primary documents), Early English Books Online, Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, Diversity Database Suite, Harper's Weekly, Historical New York Times. (Last 30 minutes) Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
February 18: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
Google: Scholar, Books, and News Archive
Google has developed research tools including an index to scholarly literature (Google Scholar), a full-text archive of books and magazines (Google Books) and a full-text archive of newspaper articles (Google News Archive). Their size, scope and convenience make them extremely useful complements to K-State Libraries’ collections. Learn what they contain, how to search them effectively, and how to access resources they do not make available for free.
January 22: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
February 18: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
Library Tour and Tools
Thanks to new technologies and innovative librarians and staff, K-State Libraries offer a number of services that can make your life easier. Learn about citation linkers, Interlibrary Services, scanners, and discover new resources like collaboration stations and self-checkout machines. We’ll also share the gamut of services Subject Librarians offer. Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
February 18: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
Researching Business & Industry
Although this session is open to everyone, it is particularly targeted to the non-business researcher's need for business information. We'll review free Internet websites as well as K-State databases and print resources for company, executive, and industry information.
January 22: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
February 18: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
LexisNexis Congressional
The hearings, reports, and other documents produced in the United State's Congress can offer invaluable insights in a variety of research fields: sociology, medicine, political science, history, engineering, business, agriculture, women's studies and more. Learn how to use the database LexisNexis Congressional to find hearing and reports relevant to your research. This class will also include basic techniques for searching LexisNexis Academic. Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
February 18: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
RefWorks Essentials
K-State makes RefWorks, a bibliographic management system, available to all of our faculty, staff, and students. In the essentials class, you will create an account; learn how to manually enter references; and how to export references from article databases into your RefWorks account. We will also briefly touch on using Write-n-Cite with to insert references in a Microsoft Word document and create a bibliography. Registration for this class is free.
January 22: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
February 18: 9:30 am, 1:30pm
RefWorks Intermediate
This class will cover wrangling RefWorks to make it work for you. Learn how to fix incorrect references, edit citations with Write-n-Cite, share folders, attach files and more. We’ll also spend more time on Write-n-Cite. Please come with questions!
January 22: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
February 18: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
Sound and Music
Naxos Music Library offers streaming access to a vast collection of over 35,000 CDs of classical, jazz, and world music. Smithsonian Global Sound (a partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) provides access to 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. This collection includes world music, Smithsonian Folkways recordings, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, and an extensive children's collection that will be of interest to educators and parents alike. Discover folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, global music and much more! Come learn how you may use these resources more effectively whether for teaching, research, or personal edification.
January 22: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
February 18: 11:30 am, 3:30pm
Getting started with K-State's Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports
January 22: 10:30 am, 2:30pm
http://www.lib.k-state.edu