Classes,
Workshops
& Tours

Faculty, Staff & Graduate Student Sessions
Fall Semester 2009

For new faculty
For all faculty, staff & graduate students

Graduate students: In addition to events listed on this page, note our series of Saturday morning research workshops especially for you.

NOTE: Faculty, staff and grad students are welcome to attend. Registration is not absolutely required but is certainly helpful to us in planning.

What's Up @ the Library: Thursday, August 27 10:00-11:00AM, Perry Library, Room 151; repeated on Friday, August 28 at 10:00AM. New & returning faculty, as well as TAs, are welcome. This one-hour session gives you a thorough overview of library services and collections. Light refreshments will be served. Special workshops for graduate assistants are being held soon as well. To register or for more information, contact Cynthia Wright Swaine at cswaine@odu.edu. -- Click to Register

Using the ArtSTOR Image Collection: Tuesday, October 6, Perry Library, Room 163. Led by Sarah Falls, ARTstor representative.
ARTstor is a vast digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. ARTstor collections are comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives.
Session I, ARTstor for Information Professionals (library faculty and staff), 10:00-11:30AM. Session II, Teaching and Presenting with ARTstor, for teaching faculty in all departments, 1:00-3:00PM. In addition to the main ARTstor segment, Visual Resources Curator Nancy Shelton will show ODU's own art image collection. For further information, contact Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu. -- Click to Register

Using EndNote with Library Databases: Wednesday, October 28, 10:00-11:30AM, Perry Library, Room 163.
EndNote is a powerful tool for organizing and managing citations that can save you many hours of work. Learn to incorporate and format citations you find through library databases. For more information, contact Miriam Bridges at mbridges@odu.edu. -- Click to Register

Citation Databases Can Help You!: Thursday, November 5, 10:00-11:00AM, Perry Library, Room 163.
This workshop will cover the ISI citation databases, as well as Journal Citation Reports, to aid you in selecting the best journals in which to publish. For more information, contact Edward Wladas at ewladas@odu.edu. -- Click to Register

Departmental Presentations/Workshops

At the request of a specific college, school or department, a subject-specialist reference librarian can meet with faculty to offer workshops related to the Internet, the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), pertinent databases, or other resources and services. To request such sessions or use the information literacy instruction services electronic request form or contact one of the librarians directly. To see the list of the subject specialist librarians click here.

New Faculty Orientation

In Webb Center at the new faculty orientation session in late August, come early to enjoy some coffee and pastry; then stop by the University Libraries table. Information during the morning session will be presented by the University Librarian, Virginia S. O'Herron. For more activities, see the "Faculty/Staff/Grad Student" section above.

Faculty by Department or College

Traditionally, the College of Arts & Letters has invited the Digital Services Librarian, Karen Vaughan, to meet with their new faculty before the fall semester begins. We're looking forward to this invitation again--an opportunity to showcase the wide variety of digital services we offer to faculty, as well as databases and other electronic resources available through the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). We would be glad to meet with groups from other colleges or departments as well. To request such sessions, use the information literacy instruction services electronic request form or contact one of the librarians directly. To see the list of the subject specialist librarians click here.