The Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on making the most of e-books, e-book readers and reference management software during week 3.

Bodleian iSkills: E-Books (Tues 3 Feb 14.00-15.15) (wk 3)  The Bodleian Libraries has over 624,000 e-books, with titles in all subject areas, but do you feel confident in finding and using them?    This workshop will cover finding e-books and how to use and manipulate them including borrowing entire books, downloading chapters, using them on computers, tablets and other devices and making annotations. Please note that this workshop will focus on finding and using e-versions of books. The subsequent session “iSkills-E-Book Readers” will look at devices and apps for reading e-books such as Kindle and Nook (more information below).
Presenter: Hilla Wait
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library Training Room, Parks Road.

>  Find out more an book your place at iSkills: E-Books.

Bodleian iSkills: E-Book Readers (Tues 3 Feb 15.30-17.00) – Reading on E-Book Readers such as Kindle or Nook and using apps for iPad and Android devices is increasingly popular but how useful are these devices for academic work? This workshop will look at a range of devices and apps on the market and will cover key features to look out for when considering purchase. The workshop will also include an opportunity to try out a range of devices.
Presenters: Hilla Wait, Ian Chilvers and Kat Steiner
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library Training Room, Parks Road

> Find out more and book your place at iSkills: E-Book Readers

Bodleian iSkills: Tech Tools – Reference Management (Wed 4 Feb 9.30-12.15) (wk 3)  Formatting your in text citations/footnotes and bibliography correctly for your thesis or publication is a chore. Reference management software makes it easier and saves you time. This introductory session gives an overview of how reference management works, explores the pros and cons of a wide range of reference management packages and gives you the opportunity to try out five different packages so that you can work out which one is best for you.   The packages included are RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero,  Mendeley and ColWiz.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers,  academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.

Presenters: Oliver Bridle, Kelly Schultz, Sophie Staves, Steve Albury and Angela Carritt

Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road.

> Book online

What’s coming up in the iSkills programme – To see what’s coming up see the iSkills timetable

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running our popular workshop on RefWorks for managing your references, in text citations and bibliographies:

RefWorks for Humanities (Wed 28 Jan 14.00-17.00) (wk 2) –   Inserting in-text citations and footnotes into your papers and creating bibliographies is a time consuming chore.  Reference Management tools such as RefWorks make it much easier and save you valuable time. RefWorks is an online tool which is available to all members of Oxford University and alumni through the Bodleian Libraries subscription.  You can use it to keep track of your reading so that you have all the details you need to hand when you want to insert a citation into your own papers. However, RefWorks best feature is that it will format your citations and bibliographies for you using your chosen citation style. In addition, if you are publishing and need to submit your text in different styles for different publishers, RefWork can switch styles for you at the touch of a button. Come along to our introduction to find out more. This workshop is open to all, but the section on importing references will focus on Humanities examples.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and  academics wishing to use RefWorks

Presenters: Bethan Jenkins, Helen Matthews and Angela Carritt

Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book online

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Last chance to sign up for this term’s Research Skills Toolkits!

This is a free hands-on workshop for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources.   Topics covered in this 2 hour session include:

•  Reference management software
• Literature searching and advanced search techniques
• Keeping up to date with emerging research
• Managing your thesis with Word
• Analysing data with Excel pivot tables
• Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn
• Free software for image manipulation
• Measuring research impact
• Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops, which are run jointly by IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries, are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 1 of Hilary Term as follows:

• Research Skills Toolkit for Social Sciences (Tues 20 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for Humanities subjects (Mon 19 Jan 14.00-16.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for History, Archaeology and Classics (Wednesday 21 Jan 14.00-16.00)  – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for English (Thursday 22 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

As of Monday 12th January we will revert to our term time opening hours of 9am-7pm Monday-Friday and 10am-4pm on Saturdays.

Happy New Year! The new books received in the library during December may now be seen on our website and LibraryThing page.