Fall 2021 & Fall 2022 Workshop Recordings & Slides
Are you unsure where to start your research? Do you find yourself doing lots of unproductive searches that don’t find the sources you need? In this workshop we will talk about how to make the most of your library research. We’ll look at how to most effectively search Google Scholar and use the library databases.
Watch the recording here.
Zotero
Need a crash course in using the citation management system Zotero? We’re here to help! We’ll discuss how to download Zotero, how to add sources to your Zotero library and how to add citations to Google Docs and Microsoft Word, as well as some other helpful Zotero tips and tricks.
To view the workshop recording, click here.
Slides can be downloaded here:
Graduate Workshop: Citation Management Systems
This workshop will contain everything you need to get started with Zotero or Mendeley.
Are you writing your citations by hand? You don’t have to! Zotero & Mendeley are citation management software programs that allow you save and organize bibliographic information about the resources you are referring to during your research. It then integrates with word processors, outputting formatted citations in any citation style.
Watch the recording here.
Download the Slides: Citation Management Systems
The art of persuasion: Make your sources work for you
Are you unsure what your professors mean by “synthesizing” your sources? Do you struggle to integrate your sources into your paper? Do you feel like your paper reads awkwardly and unnaturally? In this workshop we’ll talk about ways to successfully integrate your sources into your paper in a natural, conversational way.
Watch the recording here or here (Fall 2022).
Download slides here: The Art of persuasion
Graduate Workshop: What Graduate Students Need to Know about the Library
Balancing all of the demands of graduate education can be a challenge. The Clarkson University Libraries wants to help you save time and improve your academic success!
This introductory workshop will cover how the library connects to every stage of the research process: exploring and gathering sources, managing information, using and reusing your own work and the work of others, and sharing results. This workshop will get you started so you can level up your research and writing skills.
Watch the Recording here.
Download the Slides: What Grad Students Need to Know
Graduate Workshop: Digital Privacy & Anonymity
Privacy — the ability to think, read, write, and correspond free of observation — is fundamental to intellectual freedom. Yet, the same digital technologies that make contemporary research, correspondence, and publication possible have also brought us the potential for round-the-clock surveillance of our daily activities by corporations, states, and trolls. What are some of the digital privacy risks we face while working and traveling? How might you mitigate these risks? This workshop serves as an informal, conversational introduction to the digital privacy landscape.
Watch the recording here.
Download the Slides: Digital Privacy & Anonymity
In the high-speed world of reality-optional politics, “alternative” facts, and “fake” news, how can you identify news sources that are accurate and trustworthy? There are tools and approaches to help you be a more effective evaluator of news sources and news content. Join us for an hour of working together to recognize reliable news sources and separate them from the “alternative,” fake, truthy, and promotional versions.
Watch the Recording here.
Download the Slides: Fake News, Alternative Facts, & Disinformation
Who wrote that? Being wary on the web
Historically only the wealthy had the ability to create and disseminate information, but in today’s more participatory culture we can all contribute to the creation and spread of information. Citizen journalism, citizen science, and the rise of blogging and other less centralized and controlled sources of information have created a whole new landscape of resources. But how do we know which resources we can rely on? This workshop will look at how to evaluate sources we find on the web to be a skeptical – and wise – consumer of information.
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Who Wrote That
Graduate Workshop: Working Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is part of the fabric of our digital life. It is used worldwide by millions of people daily. Join this workshop to learn more about it, as well as how to use your knowledge and research skills to make it better.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to add to their knowledge of Wikipedia.
Watch the recording here.
Download the Slides: Working Wikipedia
Is it shareworthy? Becoming a more sophisticated social media user
Today almost everyone uses – and shares – on social media. But how do we determine what to share? And what to trust when our friends share? This workshop will look at some of the challenges posed by social media for information and news today. We’ll consider what goes on behind the scenes on social media and how to better make social media work effectively for us.
To watch a similar workshop recording click here.
Download the slides here: Shareworthy
Ethics of Information
In an era in which we frequently hear about misinformation and scams, it is increasingly important to focus on the ethics of information, not just finding and sharing information. In this workshop we will discuss some of the current ethical issues in information creation and use, helping you become a savvy consumer and creator of information.
Watch the recording here.
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Spring 2021 Workshop Recordings & Slides
Becoming a Research Guru: Research Project Tips & Tricks
Are you totally new to the library? Or maybe you’ve used the library, but don’t feel like you are getting the best search results? This workshop will tell you how to be an effective library searcher…. And what to do if you get stuck!
Watch the Recording here.
Download the Slides: Research Guru Spring 2021.
Graduate Workshop: Presentation Skills
This workshop contains general information about giving a presentation in a professional environment.
Do you have a conference presentation coming up? Giving a presentation as part of a job interview? This workshop will focus on giving you the tips and tricks you need to make the most of your presentation delivery.
Fall 2020 Workshop Recordings & Slides
Becoming a Research Guru: Research Project Tips & Tricks
Are you totally new to the library? Or maybe you’ve used the library, but don’t feel like you are getting the best search results? This workshop will tell you how to be an effective library searcher…. And what to do if you get stuck!
Watch here or download the slides:
Finding Answers to Clinical Questions: Efficiently & Effectivley
This session will help you develop the skills to find clinically relevant literature to inform your classroom research and your clinical practice. We’ll teach you the basics of how to construct and perform an efficient literature search in key health sciences databases, how to utilize the information from a “seed article” to extend your literature search, and different ways to get your hands on the full text of those articles.
Health Sciences and biology students need to know all the details of the human body in and out! This session will introduce a variety of essential texts, plus explore valuable, interactive 3D online anatomy tools. Come get a refresher, or discover something new that best fits your learning style.
Infodemic: Avoiding COVID Misinformation
We are all being inundated with information about COVID-19 daily. How do we know what to trust and share with friends and family? This workshop will give you the tools you need to become a more savvy consumer of COVID-19 information and data.
Watch here. Download slides:
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Staying Up-to-Date in Your Field: Health Sciences
Learn quick and easy ways to keep up with current trends in your field or on your research topic by creating database search alerts, subscribing to journal table-of-contents, and understanding what the key journals are in your field.
Graduate Workshop: Advanced Readings Strategies
Participants will learn how to maximize their reading efficiency. To achieve academic success it is crucial for graduate students to develop superior strategies for reading and learning from text.
This workshop will teach techniques for reading various kinds of academic texts, strategies for enhancing retention and recall of information, and methods for reading faster and more efficiently.
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Graduate Workshop: Dissertation Literature Review
The workshop will cover graduate-specific library privileges, effective research and citation practices, writing from sources and a general introduction to the literature review process.
New to research at the graduate level or just need a refresher? Not sure how to move from research to writing? Join
us for this workshop focusing on entering an academic conversation through research and writing.
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Tech Giants: Algorithms, “Filter Bubbles” and Privacy
This summer tech “giants” Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple were grilled by Congress about issues ranging from anti-competitive behavior, bias and free speech, privacy and misinformation. How are these tech giants impacting you and what you see on the web? How are they impacting our society? This workshop will touch on issues of concern to our society in the tech world today.
View the PowerPoint slides here.
Spring 2020 Workshop Recordings & Slides
Graduate Workshop: Finding Data & Statistics
This workshop will discuss how to find and how to evaluate available data sets and statistics. Do data sets elude you on the internet? Does finding statistics make your head spin? Where does one even begin looking for good data and statistics anyway? How can you tell if they are good data and statistics?
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Graduate Workshop: Dissertation Literature Review Boot Camp Part 1
The workshop will cover graduate-specific library privileges, effective research and citation practices, writing from sources and a general introduction to the literature review process.
New to research at the graduate level or just need a refresher? Not sure how to move from research to writing? Join us for this workshop focusing on entering an academic conversation through research and writing.
Download PowerPoint Presentation
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Graduate Workshop: Dissertation Literature Review Boot Camp Part 2
The workshop will cover graduate-specific library privileges, effective research and citation practices, writing from sources and a general introduction to the literature review process.
New to research at the graduate level or just need a refresher? Not sure how to move from research to writing? Join us for this workshop focusing on entering an academic conversation through research and writing.
Download PowerPoint Presentation
Graduate Workshop: Citation Management Systems
This workshop will contain everything you need to get started with Zotero or Mendeley.
Are you writing your citations by hand? You don’t have to! Zotero & Mendeley are citation management software programs that allow you save and organize bibliographic information about the resources you are referring to during your research. It then integrates with word processors, outputting formatted citations in any citation style.
Download PowerPoint Presentation
Graduate Workshop: Data Visualization
This workshop is designed to increase your familiarity with basic principles of designing meaningful data visualizations.
Following a discussion of how the brain “preattentive processing” handles visual information, the workshop will cover basic principles for determining the best visualization to use given your message, audience and the type of data you are working with.
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Graduate Workshop: Staying up to Date in Business
This workshop will discuss ways to keep up with current trends in the scholarly literature. Overwhelmed by the amount of current business literature? How do you stay up to date with it all? If you find this a challenging prospect, the library has tools to help!
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Graduate Workshop: Building your Online Presence and Demonstrating your Research Impact
This workshop will discuss metrics associated with scholarly output as well as ways to increase your scholarly visibility and demonstrate your research impact within the research community.
In today’s scholarly climate, it is more important than ever for faculty and graduate students to be able to publicize and promote their work. But, given the rise of social media and alternative metrics, it is also becoming more challenging. Participants will also be given a chance to share their own tips and tricks for raising their public scholarly profile.
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Graduate Workshop: Staying up to Date in Humanities
This workshop will discuss ways to keep up with current trends in the scholarly literature as well as how to weed through all of the old literature to find what you’re looking for.
Overwhelmed by the amount of humanities literature? How do you stay up to date with it all? If you find this a challenging prospect, the library has tools to help!
Download PowerPoint Presentation
Graduate Workshop: Staying up to Date in Engineering
This workshop will discuss ways to keep up with current trends in the scholarly literature.
Overwhelmed by the amount of engineering literature? How do you stay up to date with it all? If you find this a challenging prospect, the library has tools to help!
Download PowerPoint Presentation
Graduate Workshop: Staying up to Date in the Sciences
This workshop will discuss ways to keep up with current trends in the scholarly literature.
Overwhelmed by the amount of current literature in your field? How do you stay up to date with it all? If you find this a challenging prospect, the library has tools to help!
Download PowerPoint Presentation
Fall 2019 Workshop Recordings & Slides
Graduate Workshop: Citation Management Systems
To see the recording of this session, click here. Graduate Students: Are you writing your citations by hand? You don’t have to! Zotero & Mendeley are citation management software programs that allow you save and organize bibliographic information about the resources you’re referring to during your research. It then integrates with word processors, outputting formatted citations in any citation style. This workshop will contain everything you need to get started with Zotero or Mendeley.
To see the slides from this session, download the PowerPoint Presentation.
Graduate Workshop: Advanced Reading Strategies: Increasing the Efficiency of Scholarly Research
Learn how to maximize your reading efficiency! To achieve academic success it is crucial for students to develop superior strategies for reading and learning from text. In this workshop you will learn techniques for reading various kinds of academic texts, strategies for enhancing retention and recall of information, and methods for reading faster and more efficiently.
To see a recording of this session, click here.
To review the slides, download the PowerPoint:
Graduate Workshop: Presentation Skills: Part 1 (Lecture)
Do you have a conference presentation coming up? Maybe you have to give a presentation as part of a job interview? Need to practice in a low-stakes environment? Part 1 of this two part workshop will focus on giving you the tips and tricks you need to make the most of your presentation delivery.
To see a recording of this session click here.
To review the slides, download the PowerPoint:
Graduate Workshop: Presentation Skills: Part 2 (Practice)
Do you have a conference presentation coming up? Maybe you have to give a presentation as part of a job interview? Need to practice in a low-stakes environment? Part 1 of this two part workshop will focus on giving you the tips and tricks you need to make the most of your presentation delivery.
To see a recording of this session click here.
To review the slides, download the PowerPoint:
Graduate Workshop: Maximizing Google
How many times a day do we all just looking something up on Google? It’s quick, it’s easy, it can answer our most basic questions more efficiently than any other technology out there. Make the most of your Googling with a series of advanced tips and tricks to maximize your use of the most commonly used internet search engine!
To see a recording of this session click here.
To review the slides, download the PowerPoint.
Graduate Workshop: Apps to Organize your Research Life
Are you using your mobile devices to their fullest extent for your research needs? This workshop will explore a variety of apps that you can use to help you organize your research and data.
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