RESOURCES & SERVICES in Social Work Blog

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has recently launched an APA style online tutorial.

The tutorial, a collaboration between Gutman Library's Writing Services and the Learning Technologies Center (HGSE IT), is based on a highly regarded and well-attended workshop entitled, "APA EXPOSED : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About APA Format But Were Afraid to Ask!" Wendy Mages, an HGSE doctoral student, developed the content and taught the workshop for the past several years under the auspices of the Gutman Library Writing Services. In collaboration with Allison Harrington, Instructional Technology Designer for the Learning Technologies Center, Wendy Mages transferred the content of the in-person workshop to an online version.

The online APA tutorial has been designed to supplement the HGSE in-person workshop, but will serve any student well as a stand-alone resource. It provides... point-of-need assistance, and to facilitate student access to citation "how-to" information for APA format. Additionally, the tutorial has self-checks and additional resources for APA citation information.

NOTE: Please keep in mind that this resource is geared toward Harvard students and will at times refer to their library and campus resources. The tutorial, however, is very well done and useful to anyone using the APA citation style.

If you're interested, please take a look at the APA tutorial, which is currently undergoing beta testing.

APA tutorial URL: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~instruct/articulate/APA/player.html

Carla Lillvik, Research and Distance Services Librarian at Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes your feedback at: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=1-6134-12670

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has recently launched an APA style online tutorial.

The tutorial, a collaboration between Gutman Library's Writing Services and the Learning Technologies Center (HGSE IT), is based on a highly regarded and well-attended workshop entitled, "APA EXPOSED : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About APA Format But Were Afraid to Ask!" Wendy Mages, an HGSE doctoral student, developed the content and taught the workshop for the past several years under the auspices of the Gutman Library Writing Services. In collaboration with Allison Harrington, Instructional Technology Designer for the Learning Technologies Center, Wendy Mages transferred the content of the in-person workshop to an online version.

The online APA tutorial has been designed to supplement the HGSE in-person workshop, but will serve any student well as a stand-alone resource. It provides... point-of-need assistance, and to facilitate student access to citation "how-to" information for APA format. Additionally, the tutorial has self-checks and additional resources for APA citation information.

NOTE: Please keep in mind that this resource is geared toward Harvard students and will at times refer to their library and campus resources. The tutorial, however, is very well done and useful to anyone using the APA citation style.

If you're interested, please take a look at the APA tutorial, which is currently undergoing beta testing.

APA tutorial URL: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~instruct/articulate/APA/player.html

Carla Lillvik, Research and Distance Services Librarian at Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes your feedback at: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=1-6134-12670

Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis

WHEN: Thursday, April 10th

WHERE: Undergrad Library 291

TIME: 3:30-4:30pm

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search
ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics
program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics
suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be
helpful, but is not necessary.

Register now (preferred, but NOT required)
OR Find out about upcoming and past workshops:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html

Fall has arrived and will soon be in full swing! As you begin to get into gear please note that the U of I Library has expanded its offerings of instructional assistance. The workshops, videos, web pages and tutorials are meant to provide options for learning how to use the Library's vast resources.

NOTE: The workshops and other instructional options listed below will *not* replace the basic, mandatory, library research session which is required of all MSW students.

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WORKSHOPS:

The Savvy Researcher Workshop Series are drop-in workshops geared toward graduate students and cover a myriad of topics including RefWorks, RSS feeds and current awareness tools, how to find grant money, statistical research, IDEALS and finding the tough stuff e.g. conference proceedings.

You can access the schedule off the Library Gateway under "Get Help" --> Workshops.
or here is the direct link...
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html

Note: These sessions are suggested as an option to help you with more in-depth coverage of many research resources the library offers.

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NO TIME to attend a workshop on campus?
CHECK OUT the OTHER OPTIONS to help you learn how to use the library...

INSTRUCTIONAL WEB PAGE:

HOW DO I FIND...?
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/find/

This portal will provide step-by-step text and visual instructions on how to locate, request or more use several services available to help you locate books, articles and journals, dissertations, reserves, or items in particular locations.

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/ondemand/index.html

These videos will provide step-by-step visual and voice instructions on how to locate, request or more use several services available to help you locate books, articles and journals, dissertations, reserves, or items in particular locations. It also includes instructions on a variety of other topics not included as a part of the "How do I find...?" web page.

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The Education and Social Science Library (ESSL) offers many services and resources to assist you with your class work, research and other projects.

I have posted several handy links listed here...

Education and Social Science Library

Education and Social Science Library Hours

Resources in Social Work web page

Library Guide to Social Work Resources

Learn to use the Library (videos, tutorials and more)

Library Workshops

Data Services Help
Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
No Appointment Necessary!

Ask-a-Librarian
(For online chat and IM reference assistance)

Please contact me using the online instruction request form, by phone or via email if you are a TA and would like to schedule a library orientation/database instruction session for your class group. I am also happy to meet with you individually to discuss library services and collections to support your research needs.

The Education & Social Science Library continues to expand our Web and electronic resources to assist you in locating the materials that you need, while still providing trained staff to assist you at our reference desk from 9am until we close on weekdays, and during all open hours on weekends.

I look forward to working with you!