What's happening at the Library this week?
1. The Savvy Researcher
2. Multilingual Library Tours
THE SAVVY RESEARCHER
To get you started right in your academic path, the library has created the Savvy Researcher, a workshop series that will help you get your information organized. We've added several new offerings including "Where's the Money? Finding and Securing Grant Funding" and "Citation Chasing: The Grad Student's Guide to the Lit Review."
For the week of September 2nd:
Drowning in Data? RefWorks can Help
Learn how to use RefWorks, a citation management software program subscribed to by the University of Illinois Library and CITES that is free to faculty, staff, and students of the University of Illinois. This workshop will cover the basics: how to access RefWorks, search catalogs, import references from library databases, retrieve and manage citations, create bibliographies according to various citation styles (e.g., MLA or APA), and use Write N Cite to add parenthetical references to your work. For more information about RefWorks see: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/
Tuesday, September 2nd 10-11am
Tools to Stay Current in Your Research
Save valuable research time! Online research resources are pervasive today, making it much harder to stay current in your field. This workshop will introduce several current awareness features including how to set up an RSS feed reader account, creating search alerts from library databases as well as Table of Contents alerts in your discipline.
How To Be A Better RA/TA
Geared towards Research and Teaching Assistants, this library workshop will introduce several time-saving tips. Topics include the basics of working for others (e.g., proxy authorizations and departmental charge accounts), current awareness services, PapersInvited, how to locate dissertations, and how to use RefWorks, a personal citation database. Can't attend? Check out our online support.
Friday, September 5th 1-2pm
Check out the full schedule at: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html
MULTILINGUAL LIBRARY TOURS
The Library is once again holding multilingual tours of the library in multiple languages. Experienced library staff offer tours in several languages. Learn about the library, its services, and our collections in your language! All tours will meet in the Marshall Gallery, Main Library.
Wednesday, September 3rd
10am French
11am Arabic
1pm Chinese
2pm Japanese
3pm Polish
Thursday, September 4th
10am Korean and Japanese
11am Spanish
1pm Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi
2pm Chinese
3pm Russian
For more information on Diversity and Multicultural Information in the Library, please visit: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/diversity/