This is the handout for Friday afternoon’s working on information hunting. I am putting handouts on my blog to try and cut down on printing costs. InfoSearchingRangeSources
Archive for October, 2009
Information Hunting in a Range of Sources: Handout
Posted in Electronic Journals, Electronic Resources, Handouts, Information Literacy, Library, Workshops, tagged Electronic Databases, Electronic Journals, Information Literacy, Search, Teaching on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
E-Databases for Library Staff: Handout
Posted in Electronic Journals, Electronic Resources, Handouts, Library, Workshops, tagged Electronic Databases, Electronic Journals, Library, Teaching on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the handout for Friday’s teaching session on e-databases for library staff. EdatabasesforLibraryStaff
Lists of Library E-Databases
Posted in Electronic Journals, Electronic Resources, Handouts, Library, tagged Electronic Databases, Electronic Journals, Library on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the library, we have a large range of electronic databases. They can all be accessed by university members when online at the university, or from home by logging to databases using your university user name and password. To find a database, go to the library e-database search page, type the name of a database [...]
Information Hunting and Refworks Handout for Postgraduate Session
Posted in Handouts, Information Literacy, Refworks, Workshops, tagged Handouts, Information Literacy, Library, Refworks on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the handout for tomorrow’s information hunting and Refworks session for postgraduates. InfoHunting&Refworks (PDF)
November Information Skills Workshops
Posted in Electronic Journals, Electronic Resources, Information Literacy, Library, Refworks, Workshops, tagged Electronic Journals, Information Literacy, Library, Refworks, Teaching on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To register on these sessions email Penny Dowdney: p.j.dowdney@bangor.ac.uk with 1) your name, 2) your email address, 3) your level (1st year, postgraduate, lecturer, etc), and 4) your subject area. Please note that workshops book up quickly, but I will try and run extra workshops if demand is high! Thu 12th Nov: Refworks for Beginners: [...]
Reading Habits
Posted in Books, tagged Books on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is another blog post doing the rounds of the librarian blogs. I saw it first on Woodsiegirl’s blog: Organizing Chaos. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? I love to eat meals and read at the same time. In fact I hate to eat without reading. One of the best [...]
Why I’m a Librarian
Posted in Library, tagged Library on October 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I really enjoyed reading a blogpost by Woodsiegirl on her Organizing Chaos blog about how she became a librarian, and it seems others did too, as another librarian blogger, Jennie Law, followed suit with a blog post on why she became a librarian, which inspired Ned the wikiman to set up a wiki called The [...]