SENRGY Library Resources & Literature Reviews Presentation

This is the presentation for SENRGY postgraduates (forestry, land conservation, countryside management, etc) on library resources and literature reviews. Library Resources and Literature Reviews for SENRGY Students

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Information Hunting in a Range of Sources: Handout

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

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Information Hunting and Refworks Handout for Postgraduate Session

This is the handout for tomorrow’s information hunting and Refworks session for postgraduates. InfoHunting&Refworks (PDF)

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November Information Skills Workshops

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: [...]

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Information Skills Workshops for Oct

To register on these sessions please contact Penny Dowdney on p.j.dowdney@bangor.ac.uk. Please send her: 1) your name, 2) your email address, 3) your level (e.g. 1st year, postgraduate, lecturer, etc), and 4) your subject area. Small groups are also welcome to request extra workshops to those scheduled, contact v.zarach@bangor.ac.uk initially so that I can find [...]

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Library Info Skills Workshops: September 09

To register on these sessions please contact Penny Dowdney on p.j.dowdney@bangor.ac.uk. Please send her: 1) your name, 2) your email address, 3) your level (1st year, postgraduate, research assistant, lecturer, etc), and 4) your subject area. Please also feel welcome to add any comments about your level of knowledge, and what you hope to get [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Patricia Ianuzzi Keynote

Patricia Ianuzzi is a librarian from Las Vegas, and I enjoyed her keynote, which featured references to online gaming and to Las Vegas casinos! She began by giving an overview of information literacy and reports in the US, which I found very useful. These are some of the references she gave: The Spellings Commission on [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Other Sessions

Jenny Evans & Ruth Harrison (Imperial College, London): 2. 0 much to do: how, when and why should library staff find out about web 2.0, and what does it mean for information literacy? The session was about an idea called 23 Things, which was a list put together by a public library in America to [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Melissa Highton Keynote

This is a write-up of sessions I attended on the first day of LILAC, the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, on Monday 30th March 2009, back in the days before I had a blog. For more information about what information literacy is, see yesterday’s blog post. I have to comment first of all that the [...]

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What is Information Literacy?

I’m a little late blogging about the LILAC Conference, which I attended in Cardiff a month and a half ago, but I didn’t have a blog at the time, having only started this one last week. The LILAC conference is the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, it has nothing to do with the flower, or [...]

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