Along with subject guides to help students get started with research in their academic disciplines, librarians also can assist faculty by creating course-specific guides that curate the most relevant library resources for that particular course. These guides can offer starting points for …Continue Reading
Category: Library Instruction
Digital Badging Workshops that Support Student Research Projects in the Summer
Summer school often is a time when too much content is often crammed into a course that has very little time, particularly for Summer B classes. If you want library instruction for your course, but you don’t have time to schedule a …Continue Reading
Workshops for Researchers
This spring the USF Libraries will be offering a host of new online workshops for researchers. To browse the list, click here. Some of these workshops focus on software applications for researchers such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Zotero, Endnote, StoryMaps, and more. For …Continue Reading
Workshop–Datasets for Education Researchers
This workshop about education datasets will help researchers learn about what kinds of data sets are available and how to best frame your inquiries. The focus of the workshop will be on data that is available from the National Center for Education …Continue Reading
Workshops for Researchers in November & December
New workshops have just been added to the line up for our The USF Workshops for Researchers series. These workshops are suitable for active researchers, including faculty, graduate students and undergraduate student researchers. They include: Data Analytics Workshops Introduction to R Wednesday, …Continue Reading
Workshop: Developing and Maintaining Academic Profiles
Join us on Thursday, September 23rd from 5-6 PM for a workshop about developing and maintaining author profiles. Managing your scholarly profiles on the task is an ever-changing world of resources and platforms, but if you focus your efforts there is a …Continue Reading
USF Libraries Workshops for Researchers
The USF Libraries has launched a series of virtual research workshops for faculty and graduate students featuring such topics as introduction to citation management tools (Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote), journal metrics and rankings for the sciences, conducting legal research, developing and maintaining your …Continue Reading
Library Instruction Faculty Toolkit
The video below offers an overview of the USF Libraries Faculty Toolkit. The Toolkit includes description of online library instruction workshop modules that offer digital badging for students that complete them. Instructors can assign specific workshops and verify completion as students earn …Continue Reading
Flipping the Basics in Library Instruction
There are two online library instruction workshops in which you can assign to students learning the basics when it comes to citing sources. The first is an APA Citation Style workshop that helps students identify parts of APA citations for books, journal …Continue Reading
Featured Resource: It’s a TRAAP: Evaluating Information Sources
The library has created a Canvas module to introduce beginning students to concepts related to choosing and evaluating resources for college writing. You can assign this module to your students and they will earn a badge as proof of participation. Students completing …Continue Reading