September 9, 2009
Bibliographies and citations
Formatting a bibliography can be an exercise in frustration. Check out these FREE tools.
Bibme. Billed as the “fast and easy bibliography maker”, bibme is just one of the open source and free applications available. It is possible to search for a book, article or website or to manually enter a citation. MLA, APA and Chicago (Turabian) styles are supported at this helpful cite, oops, I mean site:0)
Mendeley is another research organization tool. Mendeley is advertised as “Like Endnote”, but free and web-enabled. Mendeley offers more functionality than Bibme as there is a sharing feature available with this tool that makes it easy to collaborate or connect with other researchers in your field.
Produced by George Mason University and the Center for History and New Media, Zotero is one more citation and research organization tool that is freely available and web-based. This tool also allows for collaboration and automatic capture of citations. Zotero also includes an advanced search feature and allows for a search of your pdfs and notes as well.
Take a look at these and determine for which tool best suits your research and citation needs.
July 31, 2009
Faculty Workshop August 13
The Library and CTL Staff “Imagine, Investigate, and Innovate: Student Research Assignments Redefined Workshop” being held August 13, 2009 is now full. If you were thinking of signing up for the workshop, another workshop will be offered soon.
This collaborative workshop taught by faculty, librarians and CTL staff will focus on:
1. Designing an effective research assignment
2. Finding and using library and outside resources for your own research or for use in developing a course assignment
3. Applying these skills in creating a technology based project for your class/instruction
The workshop will take place in the Crounse computer lab (basement of the Library). Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Thursday, August 13th
9:00am-11:00am – Finding and using resources for student and/or faculty research
11:00am – 1:00pm – How to build a research project (Presented by Beau Weston and Jennifer Muzyka), during Library-sponsored lunch in the Grissom Reading Room.
1:00pm – 3:00pm – Multi-media projects and text-based projects for presenting research
Let a librarian know if you had hoped to attend, but did not sign up. If there is a cancellation, we will be sure to give you a call and if not we will try to arrange a later workshop at a time that is convenient to you. Keep in mind that we are always willing to provide a personal tour of a database or our website.
July 21, 2009
Upcoming Faculty Workshop
Make sure to sign up for the upcoming faculty workshop provided by the CTL, Library and our esteemed faculty members, Beau Weston and Jennifer Muzyka. Below are the details and a link at which you can sign up for the workshop:
The Library and CTL Staff would like to invite you to participate in the “Imagine, Investigate, and Innovate: Student Research Assignments Redefined Workshop” being held August 13, 2009.
This collaborative workshop taught by faculty, librarians and CTL staff will focus on:
1. Designing an effective research assignment
2. Finding and using library and outside resources for your own research or for use in developing a course assignment
3. Applying these skills in creating a technology based project for your class/instruction
Please sign-up for the workshop below. The workshop will take place in the Crounse computer lab (basement of the Library). Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Thursday, August 13th
9:00am – 11:00am – Multi-media projects and text-based projects for presenting research
11:00am – 1:00pm – How to build a research project (Presented by Beau Weston and Jennifer Muzyka), followed by Library-sponsored lunch in the Grissom Reading Room.
1:00pm – 3:00pm – Finding and using resources for student and/or faculty research
Click on the link below to sign up to attend this informative workshop
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmlSWjlZR3JUOEM4RVhWTkluY1lxb2c6MA.