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Archive for April, 2008

Resource of the Week: more Refworks workshops

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Library Workshops
Get a Handle on Your Citations with Refworks
RefWorks for the Social Sciences
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: noon-2 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder and Wanda Weinberg
RefWorks for the Arts and Humanities
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: noon – 2 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: lorraine wochna and Tim Smith
Come get started with RefWorks, a web-based citation manager tool [...]

Library Workshop: Grant Sources

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Library Workshops
Grant Sources
Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder
We’ll explore how to locate sources for grants, with emphasis on the Foundation Directory.
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Reminder: Tomorrow: APA Style workshop

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Library Workshops
Making APA Citations
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder
Have questions about using the APA citation style? Our APA guru can help you out!
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Reminder: Refworks Workshops

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Library Workshops
Get a Handle on Your Citations with Refworks
Come get started with RefWorks, a web-based citation manager tool that allows you to collect, store, sort, and create bibliographies from databases, web pages and your own documents. We’ll help you set up your account and show you how to add your information and then create a [...]

Help with citing sources in APA format!

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Library Workshops
Making APA Citations
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chris Guder
Have questions about using the APA citation style? Our APA guru can help you out!
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Reminder: Tomorrow: Library workshop for international students

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Library Workshops
Especially for International Students
World mapDate: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Sherri Saines
Are you an international student with lots of questions about the library? Then come to our special workshop especially for you!
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Media: “How to really change you kid’s behavior”

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Alan E. Kazdin introduces his method for managing children’s behavior in this online magazine article:
http://www.slate.com/id/2188744
Food for thought: Has Kazdin truly performed scientific research on child behavior? How would you find out? What other motives might Kazdin have for advocating a particular method of child discipline?

Reminder: ISI web of science workshop

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Library Workshop:
Tracing Threads in the Scholarly Web: ISI Web of Science
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Mike Wilson
Have you been using ISI Web of Science for your research? They just created a new interface for it with a lot of neat features that allow you to get better results. Of [...]

Workshop: Library info for international students

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Library Workshops
Especially for International Students
World mapDate: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Sherri Saines
Are you an international student with lots of questions about the library? Then come to our special workshop especially for you!
Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Media: Willpower Is Limited, But Can Grow with Practice

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

April 7, 2008 · In a recent op-ed, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang argue that will power is a limited resource — best applied to one behavior at a time. But self-control can also act like a muscle, they say, increasing with exercise and practice. Wang discusses the article, “Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your [...]