Join us for a brief tour of the Perry Library and Learning Commons spaces with one of the reference staff.

Meet at the Learning Commons Help Desk on the first floor:

     Tues. 9/6 and Thurs. 9/8 3:30-4pm
     Mon. 9/12 and Wed. 9/14 11:00-11:30am

Fall 2011 workshops for graduate students and faculty have been scheduled.

Gaduate workshops include:

     * Graduate Assistant Workshop
     * Using EndNote with Library Databases
     * An Introduction to Google Maps and Georeferencing
     * Revisiting Some Popular Databases in the Sciences & Engineering
     * Social Sciences & Business Literature Review & Introduction to EndNote

For faculty:

     * Information Literacy Roundtable at the Library
     * Learning Commons Services and Technologies
     * Using EndNote with Library Databases
     * Curating Your Scholarly Publications

For dates, times, locations, go to Workshops & Programs on the library's Web site.

Faculty are invited to find out "What’s new in the Library," a workshop which will include an introduction to the new Learning Commons. Come to the Perry Library, Room 1306 on Friday August 26 from 10-11am.

Learn how to use EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. You can easily export citations directly from library databases and create automatic bibliographies and in-text citations in your Word documents using Cite-while-you-write.

Come to a workshop on Friday, July 15 from 10:30am-noon in the 3rd floor Research Commons. If you have a laptop, you may want to bring it with you. It's helpful if you already have the EndNote program installed -- for information on installing the software Click here

To register, contact Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu or 683-4184.

Learn how to use EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. You can easily export citations directly from library databases and create automatic bibliographies and in-text citations in your Word documents using Cite-While-You-Write.

Come to the Perry Library 3rd floor, Research Commons, on Thursday, February 3, 3-4:30pm. To register, send an email to Miriam Bridges mbridges@odu.edu

If you have a laptop, you may want to bring it with you. It's helpful if you already have the EndNote program installed -- for information on installing, go to: http://www.lib.odu.edu/researchassistance/endnote.htm

Additional EndNote workshops are scheduled for:

Saturday, February 26, 10-11:30am
Wednesday, March 2, 3-4:30pm

EndNote workshops for the Spring semester have been scheduled.

Saturday, January 29, 10-11:30am
Thursday, February 3, 3-4:30pm
Saturday, February 26, 10-11:30am
Wednesday, March 2, 3-4:30pm

Perry Library 3rd floor, Research Commons

In "Using EndNote with Library Databases," you will learn how to use EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. You can easily export citations directly from library databases and create automatic bibliographies and in-text citations in your Word documents using Cite-while-you-write.

To register, go to the graduate or faculty workshops page: http://www.lib.odu.edu/researchassistance/gradwrkshps.htm.

Additional faculty and graduate workshops will be scheduled soon.

Last chance for a BLT (Brief Library Tour). Tuesday, January 18th and Wednesday, January 19th at 3:30.

ODU students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to stop by Perry Library for a brief library tour! Interested individuals should meet inside Perry Library by the Gornto/BAL entrance near the poster. The 30-minute tours are led by a staff member from the Reference and Research Department.

The library's BLT (Brief Library Tours) for Spring 2011 have been scheduled for the next 2 weeks. ODU students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to stop by Perry Library for a brief library tour! Interested individuals should meet inside Perry Library by the Gornto/BAL entrance near the poster. The 30-minute tours are led by a staff member from the Reference and Research Department and will be offered during the following days/times: January 12th, 13th, and 14th at 11:00 and January 18th and 19th at 3:30.

Friday, January 7, 2011
10-11:30am
Digital Services Center, Perry Library

If you’ve taught or are planning to teach information literacy & research as a general education requirement, please come to the Info Lit Roundtable at the Library on Friday, January 7, 2011. We’d like to discuss what worked or didn’t work in your info lit classes and what the library can do to help. Please let us know if you’re coming. Refreshments will be served!! Contact Nancy Schafer nschafer@odu.edu

For more information about the Information Literacy program, click here.

Thousands of journal articles, dissertations, government publications and other resources can be found online through various library online subscriptions services. Experience how to do a thorough literature review in psychology and education, using the library’s research databases.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend this workshop on Friday, October 15, from 2-3:30pm in the Perry Library 3rd floor Reference Room. (note: date/time change)

Register for the workshop. For more information, contact Nancy Schafer nschafer@odu.edu