List of Workshops

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Bloomberg 101	Every Wednesday (except holidays) during spring semester, 3:30pm-4:30pm. No registration required. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. Call 898-5924 for more information. Meets in the Glossberg room in Lippincott Library on the second floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich building. Kathleen Dreyer (Business Reference Librarian) Bloomberg is the definitive source of information for real-time and historical stock and bond data, economic statistics and analytics. Come learn basic search strategies, navigation and database structure.
Making Images Work for You	(Choose date/time) Making Images Work for You - Tue., Feb. 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm Tuesday, February 4th, 4:00pm-5:30pm Meets in the Goldstein Electronic Classroom on the first floor of Van Pelt Library. Heather Glaser (Fine Arts Image Curator) Now more than ever before many images are readily accessible and easily manipulated for different purposes. This workshop will demonstrate Penn's online collection of Fine Arts images and explain how images can be integrated into PowerPoint presentations and courseware. Please note that the workshop will focus on Fine Arts images.
PowerPoint	(chose date/time) Getting Started in Power Point (closed) Tuesday, February 11, 4:00-5:30pm Meets in the Biomedical Library's Training Lab Barbara Kountouzi (Coordinator of Education and Research Services, Biomedical Library) This workshop will cover the basics of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more. NOTE: The objectives in "Getting Started in PowerPoint" are considered prerequisite to all subsequent sessions. PowerPoint II (closed) Wednesday, February 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm Meets in the Biomedical Library Training Lab Barbara Kountouzi (Coordinator of Education and Research Services, Biomedical Library) This course will cover the more advanced features of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create their own templates using master slides, import images from the Web, use Custom Animation, insert graphs and tables, and more. NOTE: This course is fast-paced and addressed to users who have taken PowerPoint I or have previous experience with the software.
Using Endnote	(Choose Date/Time) Tuesday, February 18th, 4:00pm-5:30pm (closed) Wednesday, February 19th, 4:00pm-5:30pm (closed) Monday, February 24th, 4:00-5:30pm (closed) Meets in the Goldstein Electronic Classroom on the first floor of Van Pelt Library Bob Walther (Public Services Liaison to the English, Philosophy and German Departments) and Nick Okrent (Liaison to the History Department) EndNote is a commercial software package designed to work with Microsoft word to help organize and format endnotes, footnotes, and bibliographies within research papers. This workshop will focus on how to use it to capture bibliographic information from Franklin (the Penn Library Catalog) and other library databases. The information provided will be most relevant for users who use windows based computers.
Researching the Health Sciences Literature	(Choose Date/Time) Nursing Resources - Tue., Feb. 18th, 2:00 - 3:30 AND Tue., Feb. 25th, 2:00-3:30pm Tuesday, February 18th, 2:00pm-3:30pm Tuesday, February 25th, 2:00pm-3:30pm Sessions meet in the Biomedical Library Sherry Morgan (Nursing School Liaison Librarian) This workshop will be held in two successive sessions scheduled one week apart. Session I will provide students with an overview of available Health Sciences resources, concentrating on Franklin, Penn's Online Catalog, and the following databases: MEDLINE (OVID and PubMed), CINAHL/Nursing, and Web of Science. In addition, construction of search strategies will be emphasized, including the use of Boolean operators and the appropriate use of keywords. At the end of the session, a 'case' presentation, chosen from topics previously submitted by graduate nursing students, will be distributed to students as homework. Students will be expected to create search strategies based on the case in preparation for Session II. Session II will provide students with the opportunity to discuss their findings in relation to the case presentation distributed in Session I, including how databases were chosen, and how search strategies were constructed to find appropriate citations. Additionally, students will have an opportunity to ask questions about, and to have the Librarian demonstrate research strategies for their own topics. A question and answer period will be provided during each session, and the Librarian will offer to follow up the sessions with one-on-one or small group meetings with students who request them.
Tests and Measurements	(Choose date/time) Tests and Measurements - Wed., Feb. 26th, 2:30pm-3:30pm Wednesday, February 26th, 2:30pm-3:30pm Meets in the class of '55 classroom on the second floor of Van Pelt Library. Patty Lynn (Librarian for the School of Education) This session will cover locating tests and scales, finding test reviews, and acquiring books, journals, and chapters on tests and measurements. Emphasis is on education and psychology.

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