Next week’s WISER sessions cover finding materials using SOLO, information resources for African Studies and the first in a series of workshop on online resources for historians…
WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO (Tuesday 31 May 9.30 – 10.30am) – A general introduction to finding books and journal titles in Oxford libraries using SOLO. Presenter: Angela Carritt. Book your place online. (Please note that this session will be repeated on 9 June)
WISER: Information Sources for African Studies (Tuesday 31 May 10.45 – 12.00 noon)- This session will introduce key information sources for African Studies. You will be shown useful finding tools to locate relevant material via SOLO and how to search them, as well as important portals and gateways to libraries and archives of online primary texts. There will be time for a brief hands-on at the end.
Presenters: Sarah Rhodes and Lucy McCann. Book your place online.
WISER: Online Resources for Historians (Wednesday 1 June 9.30-10.45) – A general introduction to the vast range of electronic resources which are available for all historical periods for British and West European history including bibliographical databases, biographical and reference research aids, ebooks and ejournals, web portals, and collections of online primary source materials.
Presenter Isabel Holowaty. Book your place online.
WISER Online Resources for Historians is the first in a series of WISER workshops focussing on History. To find out more see the BodWISER blog, and keep an eye out for the WISER session on US History resources later in June.
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