Workshops at BML : Spring 2012

Search Series - Library Databases and Search Tools

PubMed Essentials

This hands-on workshop focuses on what every user needs to know about PubMed, whether doing a search for a specific author or topic using keywords. Learn to focus your results with limits, become familiar with the features of the advanced search screen, and know how to use UC E-Links to easily get to full text articles

PubMed: Beyond the Essentials

Move beyond the basics to refine and expand your searching skills. Learn about MeSH terms and how to use them in a search. Use MyNCBI and its numerous tools to keep you updated and to customize PubMed for your most frequent types of searches. Great for the frequent searcher.

Google Tools

Find out about iGoogle, Maps, Reader, Docs, Calendar, and more and learn how they can help with your everyday work. This is a survey of these Google tools with only a little time for hands-on exploration. Please set up your Google account before class if you would like to try out some of these tools during the session.

Information Management Series

EndNote - Desktop

A hands-on workshop to learn to build your own EndNote reference library – from databases to manually entering information – and work with Word to write your paper and seamlessly create bibliographies.

RefWorks

Learn how to organize your references and instantly format your research papers, articles, and other publications using APA, NLM and hundreds of other writing styles. You'll also learn how to download references using your favorite research databases and library catalogs. Collaborate with other authors via the RefShare tool.

Information Commons Series

These workshops are designed around software tools available in the Biomedical Library Information Commons. Please note: the Excel series will not be offered this quarter.

Creating Diagrams with Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming program designd to assist users in the creation and illustration of ideas, processes, and systems. It is an easy-to-use tool that helps users visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. With Visio you can easily create flow charts, process diagrams, organization charts, floor plans, maps, brain storming diagrams, charts and graphs. This is a hands-on workshop during which you will learn the fundamentals of diagram creation and actually create diagrams based on your own departmental processes. It comes with a detailed workbook which will serve as an ongoing reference for creating diagrams in future.

Making Visio Diagrams Come Alive With Data

The addition of data into a diagram makes it more more meaningful and appealing and helps explain the significance of what is being described by the diagram. It is also a way of detecting where problems are occurring so as to alert those responsible to anomalies in the system. This workshop will show you how to import data and display it in many different formats, using lines, colors, icons and measurement tools to help the recipients of your diagram quickly and easily get the global and detailed picture of what your diagram is communicating.

Achieve Your Creative Best in Digital Photo Editing with Paint.net

Discover your creative potential with this powerful photo editing program available to you in Paint.net. This free, easy-to-use, downloadable program can transform your photos and provide a fun and productive outlet for your creative skills. Bring along your own photos and edit them during class exercises.

Professional Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Publisher

Learn to create brochures, leaflets, booklets, calendars, etc. with this easy-to-use desktop publishing program. This is a hands-on class in which you will actually create sample media as you explore the range of possible media and publications available in this program. Includes 30-page manual/workbook.