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Aren’t we your favorite?
Now on WorldCat.org you can designate the Binghamton University Libraries as your favorite library. It’s quick and easy to do, and it saves you time—because then all our materials come up first in your results sets. We’re hoping to have 50 people "favorite" the library by December 1, so please give us a heart next time you’re online at WorldCat.org!
Posted by mulligan at 03:46 PM
The Binghamton University Libraries will host two presentations by Virginia Kerr, Digital Program Manager, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Monday, November 3rd. The “Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. These resources are then made available to member institutions cooperatively. BU’s longtime membership in CRL allows faculty and graduate researchers the opportunity to use primary sources and other research materials for in-depth scholarly projects through long-term loans and other services.
Ms. Kerr will discuss cooperative collection development programs and services offered by CRL for BU faculty and students, with emphasis on new initiatives such as the recently announced World Newspaper Archive project. Two informational sessions will be given Monday, November 3, one from 3:30-4:30 pm and a second from 5:00-6:00 pm in the 2nd floor Bartle Library Staff Lounge. Light refreshments will be served.
For further information, please contact Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development, at eshephar@binghamton.edu or (607) 777-2493.
Posted by erushton at 12:23 PM
Binghamton University Libraries will host an informal broadcast from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) on current issues in Open Access and trends in scholarly publishing on Tuesday, October 14, at 7 p.m., in SL-209. Speakers include Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S., and Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. — both of whom will discuss how Open Access impacts research and will answer questions on this topic.
Roberts is joint winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine and one of 26 Nobel Prize Winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research. He is also the current Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs
Bourne is the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology “Ten Simple Rules” Series. He is also a professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego and Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
Click here for more information on Open Access Day
For more information please contact Elizabeth Brown.
Posted by erushton at 05:14 PM
Can’t remember the right punctuation for APA style? Or what journal that great article was in? Having trouble organizing your research citations? Need help formatting your bibliographies?
Consider attending one of the Libraries’ upcoming Introduction to RefWorks workshops to learn more about how you can use RefWorks in your research.
RefWorks is an online citation management tool that allows you to import and arrange citations, then use those citations to format a bibliography in any number of citation styles (MLA, APA, etc.).
In these workshops, you will learn how to:
• Create a RefWorks account;
• Import citations from library research databases;
• Organize citations into folders; and
• Create in-text citations and bibliographies with a few clicks.
The Introduction to RefWorks workshops are open to members of the Binghamton University community and are first come, first served. Advance registration not required.
Bartle Library Instruction Lab in the Newcomb Room (near the Coffee Kiosk)
Tuesday, October 7, 6-7pm
Wednesday, October 15, 3-4pm
Monday, October 20, 6-7pm
Tuesday, October 28, 4:30-5:30pm
Science Library Instruction Lab (SL-209)
Monday, October 6, 11am-12pm
Wednesday, October 15, 12-1pm
Tuesday, October 21, 5-6pm
Thursday, October 30, 10-11am
University Downtown Center Computer POD (DC 123)
Monday, October 6, 12-1pm
Thursday, October 16, 11:30am-12:30pm
Thursday, October 23, 12:15-1:15pm
Wednesday, October 29, 4:40-5:40pm
For additional questions, Ask a Librarian (http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/askalibrarian.html).
Posted by mulligan at 10:13 AM
