Vol. 2, No. 2 Spring 2005

Research Survival Skills Workshops

This spring, Loyola Notre Dame Library’s Reference Department offered a new series of research survival sessions aimed at helping students with their research, saving them time, effort, and frustration. The workshops, some general and some more in-depth, were held at both the Library and other campus locations. Business workshops were offered at the Loyola Columbia and Timonium campus centers for graduate students. How to Stop Googling and Find Happiness with the Really Good Stuff, a workshop helping students to become familiar with general and education databases, was held in the Library both in the evening and on Saturday mornings during the semester.

APA (or MLA) the Easy Way, an introduction to RefWorks, the Library’s new online bibliographic citation management service, provided students with an in-depth look at how to streamline the production of notes and bibliographies for research papers. May the Source Be with You -- Avoiding Plagiarism gave students an understanding of plagiarism and taught them procedures for paraphrasing, including conversational reading and note-taking, and mastering proper citation formats.

Workshops will also be offered in the fall semester. For information on the classes or to suggest a walk-in workshop, please contact Susan Cooperstein at 410-617-6802.