Library Information Skills Workshops Webpage

Information literacy skills are important for people to achieve career success and pursue life-long learning in an information society. The UIC Learning Resources Centre is committed to advancing students¡¯ information skills and assisting them to be competent at academic study and job markets in the future. The Learning Resources Centre has designed and will offer the following series of information literacy workshops to develop students¡¯ information skills.

1. Workshop 1: How to Search the LRC Catalogue
2. Workshop 2: How to Search the Database
3. Workshop 3: How to Locate the Information on the Internet
4. Workshop 4: How to Cite a Reference
5. Workshop 5: Research Skills (For Year 3 & 4 students)

Workshop 1: How to Search the LRC Catalogue ¨C 1 hour
Course outline:

1. Search the LRC OPAC
2. Understand the library vocabulary
3. Locate resources from the shelf
4. Introduce other functions of OPAC

Schedule: 6:00pm to 7:00pm on 25 Oct. 2007

                6:00pm to 7:00pm on 1 Nov. 2007
Venue: C401.
Presenter: Shengli Xie
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Workshop 2: How to Search the Bibliographic Database ¨C1 hour
Course outline:

1. What¡¯s the bibliographic database?
2. Which databases should I search?
3. How to access the database
4. Understand the search interface
5. Expand vs. limit search results
6. Manage your search results

Schedule: 6:00pm to 7pm on 22 Nov. 2007 

                 6:00pm to 7pm on 29 Nov. 2007.

Venue: C401.
Presenter: Henry E
Book this workshop:

1. Sign up the Workshop Attendance Sheet at the Reference Desk;
2. Or, email library@uic.edu.hk to reserve a space. Please quote your name, your major and this workshop in your email.

Workshop 3: Search information via the Internet ¨C1 hour
Course outline:

1. Understand the Internet and search engines
2. How to search Google
3. Evaluate the search results
4. Locate Chinese information from Baidu

Schedule: 6:00pm to 7:00pm on 8 Nov 2007

                6:00pm to 7pm 15 Nov 2007.
Venue: C401.
Presenter: Shengli Xie
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Workshop 4: How to Cite a Reference ¨C 1 hour
Course outline:

1. What¡¯s a citation?
2. Why we need to cite a reference?
3. Understand different citation styles
4. The citation software introduction

Schedule: To be decided.
Venue: To be decided.
Book this workshop:

1. Sign up the Workshop Attendance Sheet at the Reference Desk;
2. Or, email library@uic.edu.hk to reserve a space. Please quote your name, your major and this workshop in your email.

Workshop 5: Research Skills (For Year 3 Finance & Applied Economics students) ¨C2 hour
Course outline:

1. Research Process
2. Research Resources for Areas of Finance & Economics
3. Use EndNote to Manage your References

Schedule: From 3 March to 13 March 2008.
Venue: LRC/Learning Commons

Presenter: Shengli Xie

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