Spring 2008 Classes
Introduction to Library Research (50 minutes - limited to 20 attendees per session)
In this age of Google, most of us are proficient with entering a word or phrase into a search box and scanning the results. But how do you ensure that those results are actually relevant to your research question? By the end of Introduction to Library Research you will know:
- how to describe your research question (this is different from the thesis of your paper)
- simple methods to increase the relevancy of your search results
- what to look for and include when citing a reference for a journal article (MLA or APA styles)
This class takes place in a technology classroom and students will be conducting research in a library journal article database such as Expanded Academic or ProQuest Research Library.
This class is recommended for students in Expository Writing, Public Speaking, and other classes that introduce library-based research assignments.
RefWorks (1 hour)
Based on completely empirical evidence, very few people like the process of inserting citations and creating reference lists. K-State makes RefWorks, a bibliographic management system, available to all of our faculty, staff, and students.
Learn how to use RefWorks
- to organize your references
- find them later
- insert them into Word documents
- share them with professors or colleagues
- to format a paper's citations for APA and, with a few clicks, reformat it for MLA—or any other style!
EndNote, Procite and Reference Manager users—RefWorks is perfect for you, too, especially when you're on the road.
Classes for Faculty and Graduate Students
We will be offering classes specifically for faculty and graduate students to attend. Classes will include:
- APA citations
- Library Research and Teaching Tools
- PubMed Basics
- Web of Knowledge
- RefWorks
- Web of Science
Look for more information about dates, times, and registration for the faculty and graduate student classes in late January.
Attendance Forms
What's with our fixation on when we sign attendance forms? Signing the form at the end of a class indicates that you completed the class. You didn't just sign in and then slip out midway through. So, two weeks/six weeks/a year later, we cannot look at an enrollment sheet and confirm that you attended the entire class. That just tells us that you signed in.
