Off The Shelf

The librarians are teaching two webinars coming up within the next week.  Spend an hour to pick up some new skills that could save you days down the road! RefWorks Webinar:  Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! “Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT Get better results for the topics you search in the library [...]

As you finish writing your final papers for the quarter, we in the library would like to remind you to cite your sources properly.   Here are some resources that can help. Many of our library databases allow you to get the APA-formatted citation for an article that you can copy and paste into a [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! “Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, March 8th, 7:00 PM Central Get better results for the topics you search in the library databases!  If you [...]

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program! RefWorks Webinar:  Thursday, February 16th, 7:00 PM Central RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from [...]

If you’ve been meaning to learn how to get your research organized using RefWorks, this one-hour session on Saturday, January 21st is your chance! The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer your burning ReWorks questions. [...]

If you’ve been meaning to learn how to get your research organized using RefWorks, this one-hour session on Thursday, December 8th is your chance! The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer your burning ReWorks questions! [...]

I recently graduated from a Capella program (yay!)  The other Librarians recommended that I share some of my strategies for success, so I’ve started this “Librarian-Learner” series. Let me tell you: it was tough-going at times, but planning ahead really helped me persist. I know that getting back into the game after quarter break can [...]

If you’ve been meaning to learn how to use RefWorks, this one-hour session on Wednesday, September 28th is your chance! The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer your burning ReWorks questions! RefWorks is a research [...]

Every quarter, the library receives a number of questions about how to create annotated outlines and annotated bibliographies.  You are usually required to create one or both of these tools as part of the writing process because they help you to think about your topic and organize your thoughts in preparation for writing your paper. [...]