STARS is Stony Brook’s online catalog of more than 2 million titles, including books, journals, DVDs, music CDs, scores, etc. Learn how to:

• Find books
• Find journals
• Review your library account information
• Renew books online
• Get Course Reserves and more

Tuesday, Sept. 23 @ 2:30 PM
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The library's new combined search system, Galaxy, allows you to search up to 50 library resources simultaneously. Learn how to use Galaxy to quickly and effectively locate the information you need. In this workshop, you will:

• Understand the power of Galaxy as a research and discovery tool
• Construct effective and productive searches in Galaxy
• Navigate from citations in Galaxy to the full-text available elsewhere
• Email and print information from Galaxy

Wednesday, Sept. 24 @ 1 PM
Tuesday, Oct. 14 @ 7 PM
Friday, Nov. 21 @ 1 PM
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You have a 15 page paper due and don’t know where to begin. In this workshop, learn how to:

• Get started doing research
• Narrow your topic
• Where to look for information (books, articles, and websites)
• Use subject headings and keywords
• Evaluate sources and create a bibliography

Monday, Oct. 13 @ 12 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 5 @ 7 PM
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You’ve been asked to write a research paper using at least three journal articles from peer-reviewed journals. What does that mean and how do you find them? This workshop will go over:

• What peer-reviewed means
• Where to find the articles
• How to find out if an article is or isn’t peer-reviewed
• Which databases are best for which subject matter

Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 2:30 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 18 @ 7 PM CANCELLED

Feeling stressed by the amount of time you need to spend working on assignments? Having trouble getting assignments completed on time? Find out how to make your research more productive while reducing the time spent on it. Learn how to:

• Select the appropriate sources required for your assignment
• Focus your searches and set up alerts
• Have your citations generated automatically

Wednesday, Oct. 22 @ 1 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 11 @ 5:30 PM
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This session examines ways to find current and historical articles in newspapers. We'll look at online indexes and collections of digitized newspapers, as well as explore old-fashioned ways to dig in the newspaper archives. In this workshop, you will:

• Become familiar with the odd nature of newspaper indexing
• Effectively search online newspaper indexes
• Effectively use non-online resources for locating older articles
• Find, display, and print articles from the library's online newspaper collections
• Find, display, and copy articles from the library's microformat collection of newspapers

Tuesday, Oct. 28 @ 4 PM
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LibX is a browser toolbar extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to the library's resources without requiring a visit to the library website. Effortlessly switch between exploring the Internet and exploring the library. Learn how to:

• Install the SBU Libraries edition of LibX
• Use LibX toolbar functionality
• Use LibX right mouse click functionality
• Create your own edition of LibX to suit your specific research needs and preferences

Thursday, Oct. 30 @ 2:30 PM
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Web research is like juggling dynamite: done right it’s spectacular, done wrong it blows up in your face. Effective Web research requires training and knowledge of select tools and resources. Learn how to do it right:

• 10 rules for effective Web research
• Tools and applications for organizing and sharing research online
• Free online bibliographic tools
• Online research communities
• Top 5 Web research mistakes

Wednesday, Sept. 17 @ 4 PM
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Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For the arts, sciences and everything in between there are riches of multimedia content available online. Tap into this wealth of resources to include multimedia in your research and classwork. In this workshop learn:

• How to search for multimedia content online -- including images, video and audio
• How to cite online multimedia in your research
• How to insert multimedia in a presentation and on Blackboard
• Web tools for organizing and sharing media content

Thursday, Oct. 2 @ 7 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 1 PM
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Group work is a fact of Stony Brook University life. Beyond Blackboard there are other collaborative Web tools and networks for enhancing group work, sharing content and managing projects. In this workshop learn:

• How to create and manage groups on the Web using wikis, blogs and more
• Tips and tools for online group work
• How to share online content and research, including using Google Docs
• Using collaborative networks for scholarship
• Where researchers and scholars share links and build communities online, including Connotea and LinkedIn

Tuesday, Oct. 7 @ 7 PM
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So you thought you knew Google? Watch a librarian reveal some of the secret powers of this amazing search engine. See Google challenge scholarship – and lose! Watch as Google redefines the law! Go places you never dreamed were possible sitting down! Discover answers for which there are no questions! In this workshop learn how to:

• Find Historical Images and Videos
• Googling Numbers
• Create your own search engines
• The Magic World of Google Maps & Earth
• Can Books be Googled?
• Google Geekery

Wednesday, Oct. 29 @ 2:30 PM
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More and more valuable historical information can now be found on the internet, especially primary source material being digitized by libraries and research institutions around the world. This workshop will highlight some of the most interesting web sites and web tools, and discuss search methods to help you find quality historical information online. Learn about:

• Domain Searches and Other Advanced Searching
• Google Books and other Online Book Collections
• History Web Sites
• Major Digital and Audio/Visual Collections
• Library Resource Pages
• Creating a Google Custom Search
• Wikipedia as a way of finding Online Resources

Wednesday, Nov. 12 @ 1 PM
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Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn:

• How to create an EndNote Library
• How to download results from a literature search into EndNote
• How to organize your EndNote Library
• How to insert your references into a MS Word document
• How to format your bibliography.

Tuesday, Oct. 7 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)
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For those who are using EndNote already, but have specific questions, or want to learn how to take advantage of ALL the advanced features and customization options. EndNote Advanced offers:

• Customize filters and output styles
• Attaching PDF documents, objects and images
• Footnotes and figure numbering
• Creating term lists and a traveling library

Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 5:30 PM
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Writing a research paper can be an overwhelming project if you don’t know how to properly include certain kinds of information. In this workshop you will learn:

• What a citation is and what kind of information you need to cite
• How to format citations correctly for books, articles and websites in APA format
• How to summarize, paraphrase or quote information
• How to cite information within the body of your paper
• How to cite information sources at the end of your paper

CANCELLED Wednesday, Nov. 5 @ 2:30 PM
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Writing a research paper can be an overwhelming project if you don’t know how to properly include certain kinds of information. In this workshop you will learn:

• What a citation is and what kind of information you need to cite
• How to format citations correctly for books, articles and websites in MLA format
• How to summarize, paraphrase or quote information
• How to cite information within the body of your paper
• How to cite information sources at the end of your paper

CANCELLED Thursday, Nov. 6 @ 2:30 PM
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Need help organizing research articles? Come explore Citeulike, a free online resource for organizing papers and generating formatted citations. You will learn how to:

• Automatically format your citations and bibliography
• Collaborate and discuss articles online
• Create a research group for sharing information

Wednesday, Nov. 19 @ 1 PM
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In this workshop, learn how to:

• Use the Google Earth user interface and the standard layers
• Locate and use third-party geographic data in Google Earth
• Create your own map features in the form of points, paths, polygons, and overlays
• Add information to your map features such as text, hyperlinks, and photographs
• Manipulate simple examples of Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

Wednesday, Sept. 17 @ 1 PM (2 hours)
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Using data and aerial imagery of a Stony Brook University campus (e.g., Stony Brook, Southampton or Manhattan) learn how to:

• Manipulate layers, attach files, add comments, apply stamps
• Search and display object attributes, and zoom to coordinates
• Measure distances and change geographic projections
• Hyperlink GeoPDF objects with other PDF documents, such as floor plans or text

Monday, Sept. 22 @ 11:45 AM (2 hours)
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In this workshop, learn how to:

• Collect field data for point and line features
• Convert Global Positioning System (GPS) data, and display it in ArcPAD, a mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program
• Transfer GPS data to a desktop GIS
• Become eligible to borrow the Melville Library’s GPS unit

Thursday, Sept. 25 @ 2:30 PM (2 hours; 8 seats available)
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The UCSC Genome Browser searches a large collection of genomes. This workshop will demonstrate how to:

• Find expression and homology on groups of genes
• Upload and display genome data sets
• Map your sequence to the genome

Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 2:30 PM
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WorldWideScience.org provides access to national and international government repositories containing scientific data. The site searches information that is not found through conventional web searching. Learn how to:

• Search international science repositories
• Access 23 national and international science databases

Wednesday, Oct. 29 @ 1 PM
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Are you an informed citizen/voter? Do you want to check the accuracy of candidates’ statements? This workshop will focus on using the library’s subscription databases, not available to the general public, to find helpful information for selecting the next leaders of our country. In this workshop you will learn how to:

• Check congressional voting records
• Find out what various ethnic groups think about the candidates.
• Read party platforms
• Read before and after analyses of the election.
• Find more statistics than you ever wanted to know about Congress, the Electoral College, the Presidency and the Judiciary.
• Create customizable e-mail alerts about politics.

Monday, Oct. 6 @ 12 PM
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All you ever wanted to know, well maybe not all, about patent searching. In this workshop learn:

• The basics of patent searching
• How to find current and pending patents
• How to search for trademarks

Note - This class has been rescheduled. The new date is:
Thursday, Nov. 20 @ 2:30 PM
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Take a tour of the Melville Library’s main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you’re here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. All tours run about 30 minutes.
Friday, Sept. 5 @ 1 PM
Wednesday, Sept. 10 @ 1 PM
Thursday, Sept. 18 @ 11:30 AM
Tuesday, Sept. 23 @ 5:30 PM
Friday, Oct. 3 @ 12 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 8 @ 2:30 PM
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