We offer the workshops listed below to the Monterey area NPS community. Most workshops are held in Room 151 on the library's first floor. Need help now? Workshops, guides and Flash tutorials are available here. We offer quarterly Library Tours, too. 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 Assistance and Instruction Manager at x7732. Are you struggling to figure out the best way to collect your references to create bibliographies and correctly cite them in your papers, theses and other documents? The Library provides access to RefWorks (and we regularly offer workshops on how to use it, including one during this E Week), but many other options are available. In this session we will provide a brief overview of some available citation tools to help you decide which one might best meet your needs. Tools covered will be: Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote Web, RefWorks and Microsoft Word. We are hoping to have some users of various tools (either the ones we are covering or others) participate in an informal discussion following the formal presentation. Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
Have you wondered "there's got to be a better way...?" we thought so too, and have compiled this NEW workshop to sharpen your researcher's virtual swiss army knife in this overview tour of cutting-edge Cool Tools for the in-the-know researcher. We’ll examine: ♦ How to utilize Social Networks as information resources Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
Defense Information can be deceptively "easy" to run across on the web, but so much MORE is available when you have the kind of authentication "access pass" offered by the library through your NPS affiliation. This class is designed to give you the "Insider view" using up-to-date resources only available via institutional affiliation. We will consider the place of defense research in the academic tradition and outside of it, using licensed resources such as Jane's Online as well as take a look at Inside Defense, DTIC and other military-specific resources. Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
This workshop focuses on the Nexis side of LexisNexis. Learn how to effectively search 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. Need help using this resource? Learn more online Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
Have you ever considered using software to deal with your citations? The Library makes RefWorks, a citation management tool, available to the NPS community. Use RefWorks to save and organize your citations, create bibliographies, and format your citations and references in your papers, thesis and other documents using a wide variety of citation styles (APA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE, etc.). This workshop provides all you need to get started. Information is provided ahead of the workshop so please be sure to register prior to attending. PRIOR REGISTRATION REQUIRED Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
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Dudley Knox Library is bringing the library workshop experience to your office or home! Want to learn more about how to navigate the library website to find those valuable resources you need for your upcoming assignments? Join us in an online Research Quickstart Workshop. Sign up in advance is necessary, so fill out the workshop form to reserve a virtual seat today. We will meet via Elluminate Live! Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Registration taken up to 24 hours before start of workshop Sessions:
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 help you to understand why some pages are “invisible" to search engines. Register early: this workshop fills up fast! Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
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 will help you to 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 information to make sure you are getting reliable and authentic pages. Sessions:
Thesis QuickStart Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
You Can Take It With You: An Introduction to Resources Available Through Alumni Access After you leave NPS, will you still have access to the sources you need to keep up with issues important to your career? 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. Register for this workshop online or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk. Sessions:
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