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Reference Services Boot Camp

 

Session 1 Thursday, December 15, 2011 (Room 225)

Time

Subject

Presenters

Possible databases covered

 

9:00-10:15

Sciences (Biology and Chemistry)

Bess Robinson, John Barnett

Web of Science, JSTOR Plant Science, Sage Reference Online, SciVerse, SpringerLink

10:30-11:45

Sciences (Nursing, Health Sciences, Engineering)

Betsy Park, Annelle Huggins, Julie Xu

CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, Health Reference Center Academic, Applied Science & Technology Fulltext, ASTM and ANSI

1:00-2:15

Business and Economics

Joyce McKibben, Steve Knowlton

Mergent Online, Lexis-Nexis (including company profiles and patents), Business Source Premier (including Market Research Reports), IntelliConnect

2:30-4:00

RefWorks

Betsy Park, Bess Robinson, Perveen Rustomfram

RefWorks

 

Session 2 Friday, January 6, 2012 (Room 226)

Time

Subject

Presenters

Possible databases covered

 

9:00-10:15

Social Sciences (Social Work, Sociology, Women’s studies, Psychology, Urban and Public Affairs, Criminal Justice)

Susan Wood, Perveen Rustomfram

Criminal Justice Abstracts, JSTOR, Social Sciences FullText, Urban Studies Abstracts, Project MUSE

10:30-11:45

Knowledge Base/LibGuides

Susan Wood, Perveen Rustomfram, Pam Dennis

Informational

1:00-2:15

English/Literature, Asian Studies

RaShauna Brannon

Literature Resource Center, Google Book Search, Humanities Fulltext, Oxford English Dictionary

2:30-4:00

Education

Pam Dennis

ERIC, Education FullText, Dissertation Abstracts, Learning Express Library, InfoTrac Educators 200

 

Session 3 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 (Admin. Conference room)

Time

Subject

Presenters

Possible databases covered

 

9:00-10:15

The Reference Question

Betsy Park, Joyce McKibben

 

10:30-11:45

Reference Collection

Joyce McKibben

 

1:00-2:15

Humanities (Architecture, Art, Theatre, Music, Philosophy and Religion)

Kevin Merriman, Anna Neal,     Pam Dennis

Art FullText, Humanities FullTxt, Grove encyclopedias, Project MUSE, Oxford Reference Online, InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy Database

2:30-4:00

Government Publications

Mary Freilich and Gov. Pubs. staff

American Fact Finder, overview of SuDocs numbers, Thomas.gov, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center for Educational Statistics









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