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Fall 2016 reference management workshops

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Reference management tools are a new addition to our list of supported technologies, and we’re happy to offer several workshops on them this semester. Registration is not required.

Reference or citation management tools can help you organize and cite your sources and automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies. RefWorks and EndNote are paid tools available at no cost to UA students, faculty, and staff. Popular free tools include Mendeley and Zotero.

This short video from Western Libraries highlights some of the features shared by most reference management tools.

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Fall 2016 Microsoft Word workshops

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Focus on research and writing, not fixing formatting problems: academic paper formatting is the focus of this semester’s Microsoft Word workshops. Registration is not required.

Part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, Microsoft Word is a popular word processing program used to compose, edit, format, and print documents. It is available on computers throughout the University Libraries and provided free of charge for home use to currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff.

This brief video from GCFLearnFree.org shows the Word 2016 interface and some of the program’s basic features. You can learn more about Word on the Microsoft Office website.

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Fall 2015 Academic Technologies workshops open for registration

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Registration for Fall 2015 Academic Technologies workshops is now open! This semester will offer opportunities to learn about ArcGIS, Esri Story Maps, Google Geo Tools (My Maps, Earth, and Fusion Tables), Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Sway, and Word), NVivo, SPSS, and more. Download a flyer (landscape (PDF) & portrait (PDF)) or view workshop descriptions and register here. Continue reading →

Rodgers Library Spring 2015 Software Workshops

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This is the first post from Science and Engineering Librarian Vincent Scalfani. In addition to providing software instruction, Dr. Scalfani is the Libraries’ subject specialist for Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering and teaches in the Department of Chemistry.

Rodgers Library is excited to announce our Spring 2015 software workshops. We will be offering workshops on QtiPlot, Adobe InDesign, SketchUp, and MATLAB. For a complete description of the workshops along with dates and times, please go here to register for one (or more!) of our workshops:

https://universityofalabama.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cVetL8PDfyzatsF

Spring 2015 Academic Technologies workshops open for registration

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I’m happy to share that our Spring 2015 Academic Technologies workshop schedule is now available. This semester will offer opportunities to learn about ArcGIS, Microsoft Word, NVivo, SAS, SPSS, and SketchUp. View a list of workshops by date and topic or register here.

Rodgers Library will also offer several software workshops this semester; topics include QtiPlot, Adobe InDesign, SketchUp, and MATLAB. You can read workshop descriptions and register here.
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