Refworks Guide for Workshops

This is the Refworks Guide for workshops: RefworksforBeginners

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Library Resources for Music / Adnoddau Llyfrgell ar Gyfer Cerdd

This biliingual (English / Welsh) powerpoint presentation briefly outlines some printed and electronic library resources for music students: Library Resources for Music Students / Adnoddau Llyfrgell i Myfyrwyr Cerdd

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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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The teaching term

This term I have been mostly teaching. As a result, everything else I was doing, such as experimenting with Web 2.0 tools and writing it up for a library scoping study, planning book displays, and various other things, have slightly fallen behind as I am so busy both preparing and teaching sessions. I only started [...]

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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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E-Databases for Library Staff: Handout

This is the handout for Friday’s teaching session on e-databases for library staff. EdatabasesforLibraryStaff

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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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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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