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Library Workshops
Take Out or Delivery: What you want the way you want it!

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time: noon-1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: lorraine wochna

Learn how to access all the different resources at Alden Library, on site or from your home. Get PDFs hot out of the oven and delivered to your doorstep. Want to make your own PDF? We have the resources to feed your information hunger. Ask for our daily special! Geared towards graduate students.

Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed.

Library Workshop:
I don’t even know where to begin

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Sherri Saines

We know it’s overwhelming! Let us help you get a handle on it. We have a simple, 4-step strategy to approach the millions of potentially useful places you might look for information. Let us show you how to solve your research problems.

Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Library Workshops:
Database Alert Services

Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Chad Boeninger
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Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Tim Smith

Many of our databases offer alert services, which can automatically let you know about new journal articles that meet criteria that you specify. Notifications can be in the form of email messages or through RSS feeds. This workshop will help you learn how to set up and make use of these alert services.

Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Time: noon – 1 pm
Place: Alden 323
Instructor: Sherri Saines

Every floor of Alden is staffed with people who want to help. Let us introduce you to the truly amazing array of things we are willing to do: find books, teach you software, help you write, make you a cup of coffee, get your group together in a study room, answer your questions. Geared towards first-year students.

Pre-registration is NOT required. Just come to Alden 323 at the day and time listed above.

Alden Library’s code game is a series of 5 challenges through which students explore the library and learn about its resources. Students who complete the game by noon on November 17 will have their names entered into a drawing for three grand prizes of $100. Those who finish earlier will be eligible for additional early bird and participation prizes. See http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newstudents/codegame.html for details.

Psychologists, neuroscientists and other guests discuss a variety of topics on the Infinite Mind radio program. An archive of programs is available online at http://lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm

You can now find scholarly journal articles via Google. However, if you want to be able to read the articles online for free, you’ll need to follow this set of tips from Alden Library:
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/find/articles-google.html

Finishing spring quarter research papers and assignments? Remember, help is available at Alden Library. Walk in, phone, chat, or IM — see http://www.library.ohiou.edu/ask/ for details.

RESOURCE OF THE WEEK will be going on hiatus, but will return in July with SUMMER RESOURCE OF THE MONTH.

Beginning on July 1, students will pay a flat three cents per page for printing black and white 8.5” X 11” pages in the Library, Baker Center and the CSC computer labs. All printing fees will be charged to the student’s bursar’s account. This change in fees was approved by the University Student Fees Committee and the Board of Trustees.

In the Library, two printing options that will be enabled by this change in fees are duplex printing which will cost five cents per page and black and white 11” X 17” printing which will cost 6 cents per page.

In addition, students doing color printing in the Library will now be able to charge that printing to their bursar’s account (instead of buying a vendacard to pay for color printing). Color printing will remain twenty-five cents per page for 8.5” X 11” and fifty cents per page for 11” X 17”.

“The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. It covers the entire research process including: formulating research questions; sampling (probability and nonprobability); measurement (surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive); research design (experimental and quasi-experimental); data analysis; and, writing the research paper. It also addresses the major theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of research including: the idea of validity in research; reliability of measures; and ethics.”
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/3936.html