Workshop List
Title: Beyond the Textbook: Integrating Library Services into Blackboard
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to create direct links to library research guides, online databases, articles and books from your Blackboard course/s. Topics covered will include: Linking to library research guides and course guides; Off-campus access (proxy server information); Linking to articles (persistent links) from the following databases – EBSCOhost, Gale, JSTOR, and Ovid and Wiley; Linking to online books from the EBSCOhost and Safari databases; and copyright issues.
Title: Books Unlimited
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn about the wide range of book
collections available to you as well as the various options for reading
or listening to books in different formats (print, online, audio): Use
the library catalog for both print and online books; access, search, and
navigate the full-text of online books using library databases such as
the EBSCOhost and Safari ebook collections and open sources such as Google Book Search and
Project Gutenberg; access, search, download, and listen to audiobooks
using Overdrive or books on tape; find out if libraries in the area own
a particular book by using WorldCat; and request books from other
libraries through JSRCC interlibrary loan services.
Title: Cite it Right: APA
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to identify parts of a citation; how to cite a variety of print and online resources in APA style using: database citation tools; the WorldCat Cite this Item tool; and various online resource examples and citation generators.
Title: Cite it Right: MLA
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to identify parts of a citation; how to cite a variety of print and online resources in MLA style using: database citation tools; the WorldCat Cite this Item tool; and various other online resource examples and citation generators.
Title: Databases for Business & Company Research
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to find online company, industry
and financial data from databases such as Business Source Complete,
Mergent, and Factiva. Learn about various search techniques to yield
more precise search results.
Title: Databases for Nursing & Health Research
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to find online nursing and other
allied health articles from databases such as CINAHL, Health Source,
Journals@Ovid, MEDLINE, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, PDR,
PsycARTICLES, and Consumer Health Complete. Learn about the various
search techniques to yield more precise search results.
Title:
Finding Online Journal, Magazine & Newspaper Articles Using the EBSCOhost Library Databases
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: The library's collection of EBSCOhost databases provides access to millions of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on a wide variety of topics. Find out how quick and easy it is to search for articles using EBSCOhost. Topics covered will include: search tips and techniques for retrieving relevant articles; how to save articles and search results; and how to automatically generate article citations in MLA or APA format.
Title: A Googling Safari
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Join our expedition and explore Google’s
many uses and tools while learning the quickest and most effective ways
to locate: maps & driving directions; area movies & show times; airline
& hotel information & prices; online shopping by product and price
range; images & videos; word definitions; phone numbers; latest stock
quotes; math calculations & currency conversions; and much more!
Title: How to Make Google Scholar Work for You
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Using Google Scholar often provides a mixed-bag of results; learn how to use Google Scholar combined with Library tools to find the articles you want. See how the results differ from using library databases, and discuss the pros and cons of using one over the other.
Title: Google Suite: Web Based and Free
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how to use Google’s free tools to enhance productivity. Topics covered: Google mail interface, Google documents, Google reader. Learn what all of these are as well as tips and tricks to using these features.
Title: The How, What, & Why of Blogging
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn how you can create and manage your own
blog. Topics covered will include: an overview of blogs (what they are
and how they are used); free blog sites available to the public
(Blogger, WordPress, My Space, LiveJournal); live or micro-blogging with
Twitter; and creating a blog. Using Blogger.com, participants will
become familiar with various blog tools and features as they create
their own blog account and blog site; invite members to join their blog;
and post to their blog site.
Title: JSRCC Library Resources & Services for Faculty in a Nutshell
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: This workshop will introduce teaching faculty to the services and resources that JSRCC Libraries offer, including library instruction, customized course guides, research consultations, remote access to library services, interlibrary loan, reserves, recommending a purchase amd making a suggestion, etc. It will also address how librarians can collaborate with faculty to create effective assignments and what can be done to help us better serve our students.
Title: Incorporating Information Literacy into Your Classes
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: The VCCS General Education Goals and Student
Learning Outcomes approved by the State Board for Community Colleges in
May 2006 identified seven core competency areas for assessing student
learning. One of these competency areas includes information literacy.
Learn how to incorporate information literacy into your classes with the
help of our expert librarians. Services covered will include:
scheduled library instruction sessions tailored to meet the specific
research needs of students; online modules, handouts and exercises you
can link into Blackboard courses or distribute in your classes; and
library workshops that you can encourage your students to register for
in order to enhance their information literacy skills for lifelong
learning.
Title: Microsoft Word & PowerPoint Basics
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn the basics of how to use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Meant as a beginners introduction, the class will also cover the differences between the new version of Office and the old.
Title: Preventing & Detecting Plagiarism
Audience: FacultyLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn specific strategies to help students
avoid plagiarism by using sources appropriately in their research
papers. Also learn various ways to detect plagiarism.
Title: Research the Smart Way
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: General introduction to the services and resources available at JSRCC Library. Topics covered include sources for topic ideas and overviews, strategies for searching the library catalog and online databases, how to access licensed library databases from off-campus, how to obtain the full text of an article, and the differences between Internet and licensed library databases.
Title: Resume Basics
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Using LearningExpress Library and Microsoft Word, learn to create a resume to help you on the job hunt.
Title: Social Bookmarking 101
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn about social bookmarking, the practice
of storing, organizing, and sharing bookmarks of your favorite
web pages on a public web site. Social bookmarking sites, such as
Delicious and Connotea, allow users to access their bookmarked web pages
from any Internet-accessible computer. Topics covered include: how to
create an account on Delicious and Connotea; how to add, delete, and
edit bookmarks; and how to categorize your bookmarked web pages by
tagging them with keywords.
Title: Is this Web Site Credible?
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: Learn the specific criteria for evaluating web sites including: accuracy, authority, currency, objectivity, and coverage. A variety of web sites will be reviewed based on these evaluation criteria.
Title: What the Heck is Web 2.0?
Audience: Faculty & StaffLength: 60 minutes
Description: This session will give a
brief overview of some recent online trends, including social networking
websites like LinkedIn and Facebook, Social Bookmarking, blogs, RSS
feeds, and instant messaging. Learn how these trends are changing the
way people obtain information, and get some tips to get started so you
don’t feel left behind in the dust. Opportunity to ask questions will
be provided, so if you’d like to know what or why your student or
teenage child is doing online, we might be able to help.
