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The Virginia Tech Libraries offer classes on library resources, software and service during the fall and spring semesters. The current schedule and registration is available online. (It is also listed in the right sidebar.)
Listed here are course descriptions for all recently taught workshops.
The Center for Research Libraries will present a 60-minute Webinar on its Collections and Services on Wednesday, October 12, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time. Participation in this event is open to all librarians, library staff, and faculty at CRL libraries. This general CRL webinar is ideal for new library staff or for anyone who wants a quick refresher on access to CRL collections.
The webinar is designed to:
provide library staff and faculty at CRL libraries with information on CRL collections, services, and programs highlight cost-saving and collaborative opportunities available through CRL’s cooperative collection programs furnish how-to information on access to CRL collections, through ILL and electronic delivery promote discussion of research projects, needs, and trends at CRL libraries.
CRL hosts webinars throughout the year. More information on our webinar schedule can be found in the Membership section.
EndNote is a data management program designed to help you create, store, and manage a personal database (library) of bibliographic citations, images, charts, graphs, tables, power point presentations, and other electronically digitized data, thus keeping data organized and easily retrievable.
This course will go over how to create an EndNote library, import/export citations into your EndNote library, include .pdf and other electronic files into a citation record, cite while you write features, and how you can use EndNote to share information across platforms with research collaborators around campus and even the world.
* The EndNote program is available only for Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff.
EndNote is a licensed software package from Thomson Reuters that is available at no charge to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students. EndNote is defined in its promotional materials as an online search tool, a reference and full text organizer with a collaborative Web tool, and a bibliography maker using Cite While You Write formatting. EndNote has a web-based product called EndNote Web that can be used in place of the software product or as a supplement to it.
The purpose of this session is to provide a quick, hands-on introduction in using the basic elements of EndNote, including how to create in-text citations and a bibliography using Microsoft Word.
Room 3310 Torgersen has desktop computers running the Macintosh operating system with the latest version of EndNote software loaded. Feel free to bring your laptop instead. One of the activities will be how to download the software.
EndNote is a data management program designed to help you create, store, and manage a personal database (library) of bibliographic citations and associated files (charts, graphs, images, tables, PDFs).
These hands-on sessions are designed to introduce the basic elements of the software, including how to export records from databases into a library, how to link to full-text articles, and how to use Cite While You Write to insert in-text citations into a document and to create a bibliography of references formatted according to a wide variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, etc.).
EndNote is available at no charge to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students. The cost is underwritten by the Library and the Research Division.
EndNote software can be downloaded from the university’s network software site. If downloading from home you will need to go access the site through a VPN connection. You can download from the Northern Virginia Center if you have registered for VT wireless access. For assistance, contact the staff in the Library on the first floor of the Northern Virginia Center. You can also load the software onto your laptop from discs (Windows and Mac) the instructor will bring to the sessions.
EndNote is a licensed software package from Thomson Reuters that is available at no charge to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students. EndNote is defined in its promotional materials as an online search tool, a reference and full text organizer with a collaborative Web tool, and a bibliography maker using Cite While You Write formatting. EndNote has a web-based product called EndNote Web that can be used in place of the software product or as a supplement to it.
Zotero is defined in its promotional materials as a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero is an extension for the Firefox web-browser. It runs in its own pane within Firefox, separately from web pages. There is also a standalone version of Zotero that does not require Firefox to run.
The purpose of this session is to provide a quick, hands-on introduction in using the basic elements of EndNote and Zotero, including how to create in-text citations and a bibliography using Microsoft Word.
Room 207A Newman Library has desktop computers running Windows with the latest versions of EndNote and Zotero software loaded. Feel free to bring your laptop instead. One of the activities will be how to download the software.
Ever wonder how to manage all of those citations found while doing literature searches and working on your papers? Dave Beagle will demonstrate two of the tools available for faculty, students, and staff in the National Capital Region.
EndNote is a licensed software package from Thomson Reuters that is available at no charge to Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students. EndNote is defined in its promotional materials as an online search tool, a reference and full text organizer with a collaborative Web tool, and a bibliography maker using Cite While You Write™ formatting. EndNote has a web-based product called EndNote Web that can be used in place of the software product or as a supplement to it.
Zotero is defined in its promotional materials as a “free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero is an extension for the Firefox web-browser. It runs in its own pane within Firefox, separately from web pages.” There is a standalone version of Zotero that does not require Firefox to run but is in an alpha release only, so will not be included in these FDI sessions.
The purpose of these sessions is to provide a quick, hands-on introduction in using the basic elements of EndNote and Zotero so that you can decide if either is suitable for your research needs. Activities will include learning how to:
The NVC Resource Center is located at 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Virginia, 22043, near the West Falls Church/VT/UVA Metro station.
Visitors can use metered parking at the Center or the Metro parking lot across the street.
EndNote Web is a web-based data management program which enables you to create your own database to store and manage your information.
EndNote Web is not as powerful as EndNote desktop but it is fully integrated with ISI Web-of-Knowledge.
You can transfer references directly from EndNote Web into EndNote desktop and you can share your EndNote Web database with collaborators.
*All Virginia Tech affiliates are eligible for free EndNote Web access.
LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to the library's resources. The LibX plugin is the equivalent of a traveling library – it allows you to search the library’s resources no matter where you go on the web.
This 45 minute session will demonstrate how to use several of the features (toolbar, right-click context menu, cues, and autolinking functions) throughout your research process. Additional demonstrations during this time will include installing/uninstalling, updating, and customizing the display options of your LibX plugin.
The NVC Resource Center is located at 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Virginia, 22043, near the West Falls Church/VT/UVA Metro station.
Visitors can use metered parking at the Center or the Metro parking lot across the street.
As stated in the IACUC protocol review forms (section 9 for research, section 7 for instruction), "The Federal Animal Welfare Act and PHS Policy require that researchers/instructors evaluate the existence of alternatives when procedures cause more than slight or momentary pain or distress for the animal."
This workshop will provide a brief overview of the Animal Welfare Act and focus primarily on determining and using the best resources to conduct a literature search to comply with the Act. Search strategies and development of appropriate terms will be discussed to determine if an alternative exists, and whether or not the protocol unnecessarily duplicates previous research.
Attendees will have a better understanding of the 3Rs (reduction, refinement, and replacement) and their importance in determining alternatives for IACUC protocols. Attendees will also have a better understanding of how to search relevant databases and what information to include in their IACUC protocol review forms, as well as meet with librarians who can help them with these types of literature searches.
Medieval resources will be the focus of a Center for Research Libraries collections Webinar on March 9, 2011 from 2:00 - 3:00pm in the boardroom on the 6th floor of Newman Library.
CRL’s Mary Wilke and Jane Marie Pinzino from Florida State University will discuss medieval resources available at CRL and elsewhere, including manuscripts, dissertations, and ancient correspondence.
The Virginia Tech 2013 Veterans Studies Conference will host a free training workshop on conducting oral history interviews. It will be led by staff of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress and will show how anyone can help record, preserve, and share the personal accounts of American war veterans.
The session will focus the requirements of the "VHP Field Kit," but the skills for interviewing, documenting, and preserving oral histories will apply to projects of all sorts.
This workshop on Friday, Nov. 9, is open to all members of the Virginia Tech community as well as interested members of the public. It will be held in Shanks Hall 370/380 on the Upper Quad of the Virginia Tech campus.
Seats are limited, so please register online for this workshop at www.training.lib.vt.edu/classesoffered.php.
This workshop part of Virginia Tech's inaugural Veterans in Society research conference, on the theme of "Changing the Discourse," which will be held in spring 2013. Additional information about the conference itself is available on the conference website.
Reaxys is one of the leading sources of chemical reaction and substance information on the web. The University Libraries have a campus site license to provide access to this important resource.
Representatives from the company will be on site on Monday, April 4th from 10:30 to 12:30 to offer training and answer questions. Free pizza will also be provided. Please RSVP (register on the library workshops page) and join us in the boardroom on the 6th floor of Newman Library.
For more information visit https://www.reaxys.com/info/about_overview or contact Ed Lener at lener@vt.edu.
You know it’s happened to you: you have a looming deadline, and you’re stuck, wasting time, waiting in a doctor’s office or for the bus. But wait! You have your iPhone or your iPad with you, which means that you can conduct research at any time, from anywhere.
This workshop will show you how you can turn your mobile device into a fully-functional research machine by highlighting the best apps and mobile sites for finding scholarly literature, the best strategies for searching on a small screen, and the best methods for managing citations away from your desktop. Bring your mobile device with you so that you can get started using your mobile device for research immediately!
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