How to use EndnoteWeb – Workshop 12 Feb

  Why not come along to our next Library Workshop for students on “How to use EndnoteWeb”?

How to use EndnoteWeb
Feb 12th: 12.15-13.15  (repeat session on Thurs 4th March)
Anderson Room, Riccarton Librar (top floor)

Are you jotting down details of the sources you use for your coursework on scraps of paper that get lost?  Can’t find the page numbers of that really good article you want to use in your reference list?  Not sure how to format your references correctly?  Find out how EndnoteWeb can help you:

•  collate, annotate and organise your references
• create reference lists and add citations in your text automatically
• spend less time typing up reference lists

This session is tailored towards undergraduate students.  Postgraduate students are eligible for training on the desktop package Endnote (available on PC Caledonia computers) from the UICS IT trainers. 

The session is an informal, presentation-style workshop. Please feel free to bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee provided. 

More information on the Library Workshop programme on our workshops webpage. 

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian 
  

New books on parliament, the welfare state, buildings, skills for business students, rights & duties of directors & political methodology.

 

The following titles are now available at Riccarton campus library. Click on the covers for more information:

     

     

   

For a full list of new books recently acquired by the library, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.

If the title you want is on loan to another library user you can place a reservation on that item and we will inform you, via e-mail, when it is returned to the library.

If you have any suggestions for new book titles please contact your relevant Subject Librarian or click here for further information.

Julie Arnot,  Assistant Librarian

Google – I’m Feeling Lucky! (Workshop 10th Feb)

Better searches . . . . better results!

Google-I’m Feeling Lucky!
Wed 10 Feb: 12.15-13.15
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)

Ever feel that it’s down to luck whether you find that key piece of information for your assignment? Search skills limited to a couple of keywords in the search box? Wouldn’t it be nice (and less frustrating and time consuming) to know how to search Google effectively?

This workshop will help with academic assignments by introducing you to:

• Advanced search techniques
• Google Scholar
• Google Book Search
• Evaluation techniques

No need to book. Just come along. Informal, presentation-style workshop with tea and coffee provided. Feel free to bring your own lunch.

More information on other sessions on our workshops webpage.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

 

Business Research – Library workshop Fri 5 Feb

Business Research
Fri 5th Feburary: 12.15-13.15
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)

This informal, presentation-style workshop covers how to find good quality sources of company, industry, market and business information. It will concentrate on using the following search tools:

OSIRIS: for company information
MINTEL and KEYNOTE: for market research reports
FACTIVA: for newspapers and company data
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER: for scholary business journals

No need to book – just come along.  We’ll provide tea and coffee. Feel free to bring your own lunch.

More information on the Library workshop programme on our workshops webpage.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Workshop on citing & referencing with Harvard – in the evening!

NEW for this semester, the first of our evening and weekend workshops!

Citing & Referencing – Harvard Style
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)
18.00-19.00

Citing? Referencing? Harvard? Need to know more but can make it to our lunchtime sessions?

Come along to this evening sessions to find out what they are and how to cite and reference using the Harvard system.  Get an overview of the citing and referencing process with details and examples of how to do it using this particular (author, date) style.

No need to book – just come along. Tea and coffee provided.

This session is repeated on Thurs 25 Feb at 18.00-19.00 and on Sun 14 Feb at 14.00-15.00.

See our workshops webpage for details of more sessions.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

The Cite is Right – Library Workshop

 

Confused about citing and referencing? 

Come along to this Library lunchtime session to find out more about citing and referencing. We’ll cover what the process of citing and referencing is all about, when to use it and how it can help you avoid plagiarism. There will also be pointers on how to make the whole thing a lot easier! 

Title: The Cite is Right
Venue: Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)
Date/time:  Tues 2 Feb, 12.15-13.15 

Informal, presentation-style sessions. Tea and coffee provided. You can bring your own lunch. No need to book. 

This is a general session, not specific to one style of citing and referencing.  See our workshops webpage for information on our “Citing & Referencing – Harvard Style” (evening and weekend sessions) and”How to Use Endnote” sessions for software to help with citing & referencing. 

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 Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian 

Literature Searching workshop – Fri 29 Jan

 

Still haven’t found what you’re looking for?  

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Have you been told to find more suitable academic material for your course work? Do you have to undertake a literature review? Have you tried searching for good information online and think there must be better material out there, you’re just not sure how to find it?  This is a non-subject specific session outlining good practice in finding ‘peer-reviewed’ information on a topic.  It follows a step-by-step approach to help you get the information you need. 

Why not come along to our next Library Lunchtime Workshop on literature searching and review? 

Title: Literature searching and review
Venue:  Anderson Room, Riccarton Library
Date/Time: Fri 29 January –  12.15-13.15 

No need to book. Just come along. Bring your lunch and we’ll provide the tea and coffee. 

More information on this and other sessions on our workshops webpage 

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

The National Student Survey 2010: launches Monday 25th January

The National Student Survey (NSS) at Heriot-Watt launches on Monday 25 January. Students who are eligible to participate will be contacted this week by Ipsos MORI.  The University strongly encourages our students to complete the survey.  Please give us your views on your experience of your time at Heriot-Watt. The survey only takes 5 minutes to complete: www.thestudentsurvey.com

This year will be the University’s fourth year of participation in the NSS, which has become very prominent nationally as a leading indicator of final year undergraduate students’ satisfaction with their experience at university.  We are offering three prize draws of Amazon Vouchers (valued at £150, £100 and £50), as an incentive to participate. In addition, we will award a print allocation worth £5.00 to every eligible student in each department which achieves an overall response rate of at least 60%.

The results of the 2009 survey confirmed an overall student satisfaction rate of 81%. We want to do better and feedback from our students lets us know not only what we are doing well, but where we need to improve.

We take students’ feedback through the NSS seriously.  We work with our students through staff-student liaison committees to develop NSS action plans to share good practice and to make improvements. We use annual monitoring of NSS results as a key indicator of our performance and our progress. We have improved the student assessment feedback process as a result of previous feedback.  Your feedback also helps us to target our investments in accord with our students’ needs, e.g. with better Library access and more study spaces.

Feedback from our students helps us to deliver continued improvement in the student experience at Heriot-Watt University for future generations of students. Heriot-Watt values the views of our students and we encourage everyone in our graduating class to take this opportunity to record their experience of the University.

For further information and to complete the survey go to www.thestudentsurvey.com

New books on iPhones, apparel, tires, equations in biology, molecular ecology & Riemannian manifolds.

 

The following titles are now available at Riccarton campus library. Click on the covers for more information:

   

     

     

For a full list of new books recently acquired by the library, go to the New Books section of the Library Catalogue.

If the title you want is on loan to another library user you can place a reservation on that item and we will inform you, via e-mail, when it is returned to the library.

If you have any suggestions for new book titles please contact your relevant Subject Librarian or click here for further information. 

Julie Arnot,  Assistant Librarian

Let’s Get it Online – Library Workshop (Tues 26 January)

Let’s Get it Online
Tues 26 January at 12.15-13.15
Anderson Room, Riccarton Library (top floor)

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Why not come along to our first workshop for students for Semster 2?  Called “Let’s Get it Online” it covers what we have available online and how to access it.  It will also answer your frequently asked questions  . . . .

• Is there an ‘eLibrary’?
• How do I login?
• What can I get online?
• What passwords do I need?
• Why can’t I get the full-text?

No need to book. Just come along. You can bring your lunch. We’ll provide tea and coffee.

More information on this and other workshops on our workshops webpage.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian