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SEMINARS MEET IN THE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING CENTER
1st FLOOR LIED LIBRARY

Finding Research Funding: Work with librarians to identify information on and sources of grants, fellowships and other funding opportunities to support research.

• Funding for Research in the Sciences: February 19, 2008, 2:30-3:30 pm Rhyolite Room
• Funding for Research in the Humanities: February 20, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm Pioche Room
• Funding for Research in the Social Sciences: February 21, 2008, 2:30-3:30 pm Pioche Room

RefWorks for the Social Sciences : Use RefWorks to keep a handle on sources for you bibliography, including items from microform collections, primary source documents, and more.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

Fair Use and Teaching Resources:This session will answer your questions about incorporating library resources into your courses.  We'll show you easy methods to link to library materials (e-books, articles, media, reserves etc.). Submit your questions before the class at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0arUt7iy9TKoW1jmLjq4Q_3d_3d.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Rhyolite Room

RefWorks for Historians:Use RefWorks to keep a handle on sources for you bibliography, including items from microform collections, primary source documents, and more. Bring your weird artifacts and we'll figure out how to cite them! 

Thursday, April 3, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm Pioche Room

Beyond the Term Paper: Learn dozens of practical ways to design engaging, robust research assignments involving the critical use of information resources that go beyond the typical term paper. Walk away from the workshop with a new or redesigned assignment that requires students to access, evaluate, and use information more critically.

Thursday, April 3, 2008 2:30-3:30 pm Rhyolite Room

RefWorks for Education Researchers: Learn to use RefWorks to capture citations to journal articles, books, web sites and more into your personal online database. You'll be able to quickly link to online articles, organize and share your references, and automatically create formatted bibliographies in all the major citation formats, including APA, MLA and Chicago styles.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 2:30-3:30 pm Rhyolite Room

Government Resources for Research: The U. S. Government produces and collects thousands of publications in tangible and electronic formats. Many are statistics-based data resources that can be very useful for multidisciplinary research. This session will provide an overview of selected key government resources, including the U. S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and FedStats.

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Pioche Room

Literary Criticism in the MLA Bibliography and Beyond: Discover the difference between searching indexes and searching full text archives; review the use of the MLA and learn about alternatives and next steps; investigate journals to publish your work using the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:30–1:30 pm, Pioche Room

Who's citing  who? Who's citing YOU? (arts & humanities edition):Track who has been citing your published scholarship using Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Google Scholar.

Wednesday, April 23 2008, 12:30-1:30 pm, Pioche Room