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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. [...]

Beginning in January the library will be offering two new webinars: 1) Using Journal and Book Locator - Learn how to search the Journal and Book Locator tool to easily determine whether a specific book or journal is part of the Capella University Library collection. 2) Finding Course Readings – Learn how to find required course readings in the library. The webinars are [...]

The best time to order your textbooks is right after you register for your courses.   If you don’t know which books you need, you can find out by going to the bookstore and searching for your course number.    If the book is listed as required for your course on the bookstore site, then you must [...]

Our Interlibrary Loan service provider, MITS, will be closed December 23 – January 2.  If you placed an Interlibrary loan request for a book or article before Christmas break and haven’t received the item by December 27, it may not arrive until early January.  Any Interlibrary loan requests placed after December 22 will not be [...]

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! [...]