Been out of school for a while and feeling lost? Working and going to school, and pressed for the time needed to do research? Learn how to:

• Access Stony Brook University resources from off-campus
• Explore the library’s collection of electronic books and reference material
• Use Suffolk Web and WorldCat to find resources close to home

Thursday, September 16 @ 7 PM Online Session. Instructions will be emailed to registrants.

Also of interest: See the recording of this workshop or check out the handout Library Resources for Non-Traditional Students.

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

Wednesday, September 23 @ 12:30 PM at Stony Brook

Tuesday, October 13 @ 7 PM Online Session. Instructions will be emailed to registrants.

Wednesday, October 28 @ 11 AM at Southampton

Related: See the recording of this workshop or check out our list of research guides.

Graduate Students in History have tremendous resources available to them through the library and on the open web. Find out what’s available through the library’s online databases, the internet, in print, and in microforms, as well as how to access material in other libraries. In this session, you will learn about:

• Online indexes and journal collections available through the Library
• Online collections of primary sources available through the Library
• Using the internet for historical research
• Major print resources available through the library
• Vast collections of research material in microforms at the library
• Stony Brook’s Archives & Special Collections
• Access to resources at other libraries in the region

Thursday, September 24 @ 1 PM

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:

• Where to look for the information you need
• How to find scholary articles quickly and easily
• How to get help with citations and bibliographies

Friday, October 2 @ 12:30 PM at Stony Brook

Tuesday, October 13 @ 11:00 PM at Southampton

You may also want to check out: Wolfie's Top Library Tips or the Tips for First Year Students page.

What if there was a catalog that you could use to search almost all the books, DVDs, articles, music and other materials in all the libraries in the world? There is! With WorldCat you can:

• Find materials in libraries near you
• One-click order materials via SBU Libraries interlibrary loan
• Create and share lists of items
• Build bibliographies for your research
• Integrate your WorldCat searching in Facebook and Firefox

Tuesday, October 6 @ 2:30 PM at Southampton

Wednesday, November 4 @ 1 PM at Stony Brook

This workshop will focus on the skills needed to do advanced research in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Learn:

• Where to find information (books, articles, and websites)
• Which resources are best for your subject area
• About the strengths of Stony Brook's collection
• How to use subject headings and keywords

Handout: Library Resources for Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies

Tuesday, October 20 @ 12 PM

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

Thursday, October 22 @ 2 PM

Help!! Thought you could bang that paper out no problem, but you have more questions than answers? Bring your questions to this unstructured workshop and have them answered. Learn how to:

• Locate that article you can’t find but really want
• Find more and better sources for your paper
• Correctly cite material used

Tuesday, November 3 @ 10:30 AM at Stony Brook

Monday, November 16 @ 1 PM at Stony Brook

Friday, November 20 @ 2:30 PM at Southampton

Or use our Ask-A-Librarian service for help right now!

Stony Brook Library contains over two million books, but did you know it also has over 4 million items on microfilm and related formats? And much of the material is unavailable on the internet or in online databases. Collections include historic newspapers from Long Island and around the world, O.S.S. intelligence reports from WW II, 16th century documents from Spanish colonies in Mexico, pamphlets from the Women’s Movement, underground papers from the 1960s, NASA reports, Four Centuries of Spanish and German Drama, and much, much more! You’ll never be afraid of microfilm again… In this session you will learn:

• Just what is microfilm anyway?! And is it the same as microfiche?
• Some of the interesting collections available at the library
• How to locate microforms using STARS and print indexes & guides
• How to find that exact roll of microfilm you want
• How to print from microfilm, microfiche and the other formats

Monday, November 9 @ 5:30 PM

If any of the statements below sound familiar then you need to attend this workshop.

"I've been attending this school for 5 years but I've never been up to the stacks. Can you help me?"
"I'm starting to write my graduate thesis and I'm not sure where to start. Can you help me?"
"My professor gave back my thesis outline and told me that I have to use only scholarly sources. How do I find those"?
"Can you please read over my paper to check it for spelling and grammar".

In this workshop you will learn how to:

• Narrow down your subject areas
• Do a review of the literature in your field
• Find books in STARS by various methods
• Use the library's education subject guide databases to find articles
• Do a super search of the above databases with a federated search engine called Galaxy
• Find other library resources such as e-books, research guides by subject area

Wednesday, November 11 @ 1 PM

The library's new combined search system, Galaxy, allows you to search over 100 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

Tuesday, September 29 @ 12:30 PM

Related: See the Find Articles Using Galaxy guide.

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

Wednesday, September 30 @ 1:00 PM at Stony Brook

Thursday, October 1 @ 1:00 PM at Southampton

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, October 7 @ 11:30 AM at Stony Brook

Friday, October 23 @ 10:30 AM at Southampton

Related: See Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0 handout.

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
• The Magic of Google Docs
• Create your own search engines
• The Magic World of Google Maps & Earth
• Can Books be Googled?
• Google Geekery

Thursday, October 8 @ 6 PM

Related: See the One Page Googler.

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

Tuesday, October 13 @ 1 PM

Related: For more information and downloads, see our the SBU Edition LibX page or visit LibX for more information on the tool itself.

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, October 15 @ 12 PM at Stony Brook

Tuesday, November 3 @ 1:30 PM at Southampton and Online

In this workshop, learn how to:

• Find who is citing your work
• Set up citation alerts and find cited reference data using the Web of Science
• Find journal impact factors and learn what that number represents
• Search your H-index, a measure of scientific productivity and impact

Monday, September 21 @ 1:30 PM

This workshop will demonstrate the basics of the web version of EndNote. In this session you will learn how to:

• Create an EndNote Web library
• Import citations from online databases into EndNote Web
• Format a bibliography in Word using "Cite While You Write"
• Transfer citations to and from the software version of EndNote

Thursday, October 1 @ 2 PM (1.5 hours)

Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote X2, 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.

Thursday, October 8 @ 1 PM (1.5 hours) at the Health Sciences Library (HSC), Classroom 2
20 maximum.

Monday, October 26 @ 1 PM (1.5 hours) at Melville Library (West Campus), Classroom A
20 maximum.

Tuesday, October 27 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours) at Chancellor's Hall (Southampton), Computer Classroom. 20 maximum.

Zotero is a free browser plug-in for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite research sources. Zotero is platform independent and doesn't discriminate based on institutional affiliation. It is a web-based application that allows access to your library from anywhere. Learn how to:

• Install Zotero
• Import bibliographic data into Zotero
• Create collections and sub-collections
• Use Zotero to create a bibliography

Tuesday, October 20 @ 7 PM Online Session. Instructions will be emailed to registrants.

Wednesday, October 28 @ 1:30 PM

Related: See the recording of this workshop. Download Zotero from Zotero.org. Download Firefox from Mozilla.

Learn how to write a paper without committing plagiarism. This workshop will cover:

• Summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting and citing referenced material within your paper
• Understanding the parts of a citation
• Writing a "Works Cited" or "References" page

Wednesday, October 21 @ 1 PM

Related: See our APA and MLA style cheat sheets.

This workshop will cover the basics of the EndNote bibliographic management program with an emphasis on using the tool with PubMed. In this workshop learn:

• How to create an EndNote Library
• How to download results from a PubMed 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, October 27 @ 2:30 PM

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

Tuesday, November 10 @ 12 PM (1.5 hours)

This workshop will focus on exporting citations from chemistry databases into EndNote. Learn how to:

• Create an EndNote library
• Import citations from SciFinder Scholar and Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin
• Attach PDF documents to EndNote citations
• Format a bibliography in Word using "Cite While You Write"

Wednesday, October 14 @ 1:30 PM (1.5 hours)

This session will demonstrate how to use one of the premier online databases for searching chemical information, SciFinder. Learn how to:

• Create a SciFinder Web account
• Search for articles, structures and reactions
• Set up automatic search alerts

Wednesday, November 11 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)

Is your native language English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Russian or one of 52 other languages? This workshop will cover what is collected as basic Census information and how this Census differs from all previous ones. Come find out:

• How to find population data and other statistics for your research
• How the Census and the American Community Survey differ from each other
• How government education and other grant money is distributed according to Decennial (every 10 years) Census results?
• How private is the information you provide? What if I'm not a citizen? Where do students fill out the Census?

Tuesday, November 17 @ 1 PM

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, October 7 @ 1 PM (2 hours)

Are you a Mac or PC? In this session Mac users will learn about a number of applications and techniques to optimize your library Web experience:

• Mac browsers and plug-ins for an enriching online library experience
• Bibliographic management tools for the Mac
• Mac and cross-platform messaging apps
• Microsoft Office (and MS Office alternatives) for the Mac

Wednesday, October 19 @ 1:30 PM Online Session. Instructions will be emailed to registrants.

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, September 4 @ 12 PM
Thursday, September 10 @ 2 PM
Wednesday, September 16 @ 6:00 PM
Monday, September 21 @ 1 PM
Tuesday, September 29 @ 11 AM
Wednesday, October 7@ 1:30 PM