We offer the workshops listed below to the local (Monterey area) NPS community.  Most workshops are held in room 151 on the library's first floor, just beyond the Research Assistance office.  Need help now?  Workshops, guides and demos are available here.  
If you are a faculty member and would like the Library to teach a Workshop to your resident or distance students, in your classroom, please contact the Research and Instruction Manager at x7732.

DTIC's STINET Jane's LexisNexis Library Research Quickstart Library Research Quickstart Intensive RefWorks Searching the Invisible or Deep Web Searching the Web More Efficiently Staying Current With RSS Take a Tour of the Homeland Security Digital Library Thesis QuickStart  NEW! You Can Take It With You

See the calendar of current library workshops

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DTIC's STINET

The Defense Technical Information Center’s STINET database contains citations for and often the full text of defense-related research reports. Coverage ranges from science and engineering to the behavioral and social sciences – if it’s of interest to the military, then it’s probably covered in STINET! STINET includes reports and theses from all of the U.S. military schools and reports from agencies such as GAO, DoD IG, CNA, RAND, LMI and many others. Because it is free to the public, you can continue to use it after you leave NPS, so the time you invest now to learn how to use it will pay off for the rest of your military career.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Thursday, April 24, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor)
• Wednesday, May 14, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)

Jane's Online

Learn about how to use this database of intelligence and analysis on national and international defense, security and risk developments. Content includes country analysis, military systems and equipment, terrorism intelligence, worldwide geopolitical intelligence and news analysis.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Tuesday, April 29, 1200-1250 (Irene Berry,  Instructor)
• Wednesday, May 21, 1200-1250 (Irene Berry,  Instructor)

LexisNexis nexis.com

Nexis.com is one of many databases offered by LexisNexis (this workshop is designed to focus on the nexis side of this resource). Learn how to effectively search this database for full-text articles from a huge variety of newspapers, news wires, congressional transcripts, TV and radio transcripts, magazines, journals, business publications and more. Particularly relevant for GSBPP and SIGS students.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Wednesday, April 16, 1200-1250 (Irene Berry, Instructor)
• Thursday, May 15, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor)

Library Research Quickstart

If you're new to NPS, or if you haven't explored the resources available through the Library, our Research Quickstart workshop is a great place to start! Learn about the vast array of paper and electronic documents you can find through BOSUN, our Library catalog, and ProQuest, one of our most popular databases. Relevant to all NPS personnel.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Wednesday, April 9, 1200-1250 (Irene Berry, Instructor) 
• Tuesday, May 13, 0700-0750 (Glen Koué, Instructor) CANCELLED

Library Research Quickstart Intensive 

An expanded version of our popular Library Quickstart workshop.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

•  Friday, April 18, 1000-1115 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)
• Thursday, May 1, 1500-1615 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)

RefWorks: Tame Your Reference List!

Have you ever thought about using software to deal with your citations? RefWorks, a bibliographic management tool, is now available to the NPS community! Save your citations, organize them, and create bibliographies from them using RefWorks, which is available on the Library's Databases page. You can use RefWorks to import citations from online databases or you can create your own records. You can then use these records as references in your papers and other documents and automatically format the paper and its bibliography in seconds using a wide variety of citation styles (APA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.). This workshop provides all the information you need to get started using this useful tool.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Friday, April 11, 1000-1130 (Glen Koué, Instructor)
• Friday, April 25, 1000-1130 (Ann Jacobson, Instructor)
• Tuesday, May 6, 1700-1830 (Ann Jacobson, Instructor) EVENING SESSION

Searching the Invisible or Deep Web

Regular search engines cover the millions of easy to access Web pages, but what about all that other information that regular search tools cannot “see” through a normal search? This workshop will introduce you to searchable databases and to understand why some pages are “invisible" to search engines. Register early: this workshop fills up fast!

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Wednesday, April 23, 1200-1250 (Greta Marlatt, Instructor) 
• Thursday, May 15, 1500-1550 (Greta Marlatt, Instructor)

Searching the Web More Efficiently

Are your Web searches netting thousands of hits but none of them are really what you are looking for? This workshop is geared towards helping you be more efficient in your Internet searches. You will learn some strategies and new tools to help you get what you want. You will also learn how to evaluate the information you are looking to make sure you are getting reliable and authentic pages.

Sessions:

• Tuesday, April 15, 1200-1250 (Greta Marlatt, Instructor)
• Wednesday, May 7, 1200-1250 (Greta Marlatt, Instructor)

Take a Tour of the Homeland Security Digital Library

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents relating to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL contains over 45,000 reports, directives, documents, theses, and web links reviewed and selected by professional librarians and subject matter experts. The collection addresses topics as diverse as terrorism, intelligence, emergency management, borders and immigration, public health, and infrastructure protection. In this hour, you will learn how to search the collection and become familiar with the resources and services offered at the HSDL web site.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Tuesday, May 13, 1200-1250 (Stephanie Anabo, Instructor)

Thesis QuickStart  NEW!

Whether you are working on your thesis or just getting prepared, this workshop will help you learn how to navigate the thesis process. We will cover resources on the specifics of the NPS thesis process as well as academic research and writing in general.

• Thursday, April 17, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor) CLASS FULL
• Monday, April 28, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor) CLASS FULL

You Can Take It With You

After you leave NPS, will you still have access to the sources you need to keep up with issues important to your career? What happens to ProQuest, IEEE, ACM and all of the other electronic resources you have access to at NPS? Now that you have come to understand the value of these resources, we'd like to remind you of what will be available to you after leave us. This class is especially valuable for International Programs students.

 or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Sessions:

• Tuesday, May 27, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor) 
• Wednesday, June 4, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor)