Electronic Information Resources Seminars
for UM Faculty and Graduate Students
in 2000
In 2000 these seminars were offered:
| Spring Semester:
News Sources on the Web Summer Terms: Web of Science EndNote: Software to Manage your Bibliographies Procite 5.0 |
Fall Semester:
Japanese Databases Web of Science EndNote: Software to Manage your Bibliographies Procite 5.0 |
Learn what an extraordinary place the World Wide Web is to discover the latest news and current events. This seminar goes beyond the basics to introduce the newest and most exciting developments and resources.
- Presenters: Maggie Cunningham, User Education Services, and Bob Garber, Social Sciences and Allied Professions Team
- Date and Time: February 17, 2000, 4:00-5:00 pm
- Location: McKeldin Library, Room 4133
UM Libraries welcome the campus community to a demonstration and hands-on workshop of Science Citation Index on the Web. It is a multidisciplinary database, covering the journal literature of the sciences from 1945 to the present. SCI indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM. You will be able to conduct your own hands-on searches and receive help from experienced users. ISI's Journal Citation Report will be demonstrated, where journal rankings and impact factors will be discussed.
- Presenters: Bob Kackley, Librarian, Science & Technology Team
- Date and Time/Location:
Summer:
July 11, 2000, 11:00-noon
July 11, 2000, 2:00-3:00pm
Fall:
November 27, 2000, 12:00-1:00pm
November 30, 2000, 12:00-1:00pm
A.V. Williams, Room 2446
McKeldin Library, Room 4113
A.V. Williams, Room 2446
A.V. Williams, Room 2446
ENDNOTE: SOFTWARE TO MANAGE YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Using the latest version of EndNote, this seminar will help you to bring order to the chaos of managing large bibliographies associated with writing projects such as books, dissertations, proposals and journals articles. EndNote is a personal bibliographic software designed to help you collect references, type your own entries or download citations directly from online databases, the World Wide Web, or library catalogs, and generate properly formatted bibliographies in any style.
- Presenters: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Manager, User Education Services
- Date and Time/Location:
Summer:
August 3, 2000, 1:30-3:30pm
August 22, 2000, 1:30-3:30pm
Fall:
December 4, 2000, 1:30-3:30pm
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
This seminar will help you to bring order to the chaos of managing large bibliographies associated with writing projects such as books, dissertations, proposals and journals articles. ProCite 5.0 is a personal bibliographic software designed to help you collect references, type your own entries or download citations directly from online databases, the World Wide Web, or library catalogs, and generate properly formatted bibliographies in any style.
- Presenters: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Manager, User Education Services, and Diane J. Patrick, Coordinator of Campus Computing Associates, Academic Information Technology Services
- Date and Time/Location:
Summer:
July 27, 2000, 10:00-noon
August 17, 2000, 1:30-3:30pm
Fall:
November 30, 2000, 1:30-3:30pm
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
McKeldin Library, Room 4135
The campus community is invited to attend a free workshop that provides hands-on training in learning how to search three Japanese language databases. Prerequisite: Workshop participants must have a basic knowledge of Japanese reading and writing skills.
- BOOKPLUS (similar to Books-in-Print); contains Japanese language books published in Japan since 1926.
- MAGAZINEPLUS, indexes Japanese language articles from over 8,500 journals, published in Japan.
- SAKKA SHIPPITSUSHA JINBUTSU FAIRU, a Japanese writer's who's Who of over 90,000 Japanese authors since 1868.
- Presenters: Kenneth Tanaka, Japanese Bibliographer/Cataloger
- Date and Time: November 30, 2000, 3:30-5:00 pm
- Location: McKeldin Library, Room 2109
