Dear students,
The Library Workshops are back!
- Master’s thesis workshop
- Zotero workshop
- Literature Review Workshop
- Annotated Bibliographies Workshop
- How to advance your research with LibKey and InterLibraryLoan
You name it!
The workshops are there to help and assist you with your final papers and assignments!
Check out AUP Engage for details and sign up for them!
Or feel free reach out to us if the proposed hours do not work for you.
Your Library Team
Master Thesis Workshop
Librarian, Jorge Sosa, will be explaining the purpose of the standards, the content and practical steps to take.
The short presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
For graduate students
Online (Teams)
Duration: 90 minutes
Sessions:
- April 18 at 4 pm Thursday
- April 22 at 3 pm Monday
- April 23 at 11 am Tuesday
- April 26 at 3 pm Friday
- April 30 at 10 am Wednesday
Zotero Citation Manager – Take your research to the next level!
Zotero is a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing the Web. With a single click, Zotero saves citations and enables you to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles, including MLA, Chicago and APA.
This workshop will provide an overview of basic features of Zotero such as: installing Zotero, adding citations to your Zotero library, organizing and managing your citations, creating a bibliography, and using the Microsoft Word plug-in to easily insert citations from Zotero into your documents.
For graduate and undergraduate students.
In person
Duration: 60 minutes
Sessions:
- April 11 at 2pm in Q709
- April 16 at 11am in Q709
- April 18 at 2pm in Q709
Literature Review Workshop
This workshops is intended to help you do research for your literature review assignments. After attending the session, you will know how to research for literature on your given topic. You will have a clearer idea what a literature review is and what it looks like. Sign up for the workshop or feel free to email one of the librarians in case the proposed times do not work.
For graduate and undergraduate students.
In person
Duration: 60 minutes
Sessions:
- April 17 at 11am in Q709
- April 24 at 2pm in Q709
Annotated Bibliographies Workshop
This workshop is intended to help you do research for your annotated bibliography assignments. After attending the session, you will know how to research for an annotated bibliography on your given topic. In a perfect world, you will walk out of the workshop with your list of sources and start writing your annotations. In the end, you will have a clearer idea what an annotated bibliography is and what it looks like. Sign up for the workshop or feel free to email one of the librarians in case the proposed times do not work.
For graduate and undergraduate students.
In person
Duration: 60 minutes
Sessions:
- April 10 at 2pm in Q709
- April 11 at 3pm in Q709
Beyond AUP Library – useful tools to expand your research!
In this workshop you will learn how to retrieve and request materials for your research projects. We will go over some of the tools that can help you access free sources faster and find related works:
LibKey Nomad – automatically provides instant links to articles from journals subscribed to by your library.
Google Scholar – Get access to full text from AUP Library when searching for scholarly journal articles even when you are off-campus.
Open Access – Retrieve scholarly literature freely accessible and reusable for everyone with : Open Access Button /Click and Read/Unpaywall
ILL (Inter Library Loan) – You cannot locate the full text? Ask for books or articles that the library can request for you.
Research Rabbit – AI (Artificial Intelligence) can help you explore similar papers, references, and citations in your original resource. You can also explore additional works by the author and suggested authors, as well as linked content.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Walks-in are welcome.
For faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.
In person or online
Duration: 60 minutes
Sessions:
- 15 April at 1.00 PM Q709
- 22 April at 1.00 PM Q709
- 29 April at 1.00 PM Q709
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