Seminars & Videos

General Information

ISU Library Reference & Instruction librarians offer a variety of instructional seminars and workshops each semester. Recent seminar topics have included learning to use bibliographic management software; citation searching for promotion and tenure; finding grant information; online social networking, oral history resources; using Google Scholar, and more.

Video episodes of some of our recent past seminars are available on our Library instruction videos web page in the e-Library. You can also subscribe on that page to our RSS feed to be alerted when new seminars are added.

If you have questions or suggestions for Library seminars or workshops, please contact your subject librarian or Susan Vega Garcia, Head of the Library�s Instruction Department.

Spring 2009 Seminars

Copyright & Fair Use: When Can You Copy Articles and Images to WebCT
Rebecca Jackson, Assoc. Prof./Head, Social Sciences & Humanities Dept., ISU Library
Diana D. Shonrock, Associate Prof., Science & Technology Dept., ISU Library

Is copyright and fair use a problem you face in teaching and research?
Do you wonder what materials you can put in WebCT? Then this session is for you! We will explain copyright and fair use as it relates to your research and teaching. You can find out what you can put online for your course, and what your students need to cite as well as the ins and outs of fair use.
Bring your questions and we will do our best to answer them.

Wednesday, April 15, 3:15-4:30 PM, Room 192, Parks Library
Seminar options: on-site or online (webinar)
Preregistration is required.
Register on Access Plus under Employee HRS Course Listings

Open Source Software: its impact on Education
Sarah Passonneau, Assistant Professor, Assistant to the Dean, ISU Library

Open source is the movement that defied the world, well at least, the software development world. Open source practitioners turned the old top down, closed door model of software development on its head by �opening� code to anyone who wanted it. Open source practitioners give code to the community and the community contributes new revisions. Some open source successes are Firefox, Wikipedia and Google code. You will learn the history, current developments, and ongoing challenges of open source �products.� A few open source examples will be demonstrated that can positively affect your learning and teaching

Wednesday, April 1, 3:15-4:30 PM, Room 192, Parks Library
Seminar options: on-site or online (webinar)
Preregistration is required.
Register on Access Plus under Employee HRS Course Listings

Let the CAT out of the Bag: What WorldCat can do for you
Dan Coffey, Associate Professor, Social Sciences & Humanities Dept., ISU Library

Ever wonder what books are �out there� on a given topic besides what is owned by the ISU Library? WorldCat is an electronic database that allows you to search the catalogs of many different libraries in the U.S. and around the world. Since the Iowa State Library certainly doesn�t have every book ever published, WorldCat is a very important research tool. Over the past several years, the creators of WorldCat have taken steps to make this tool more widely available to the public by placing it on the Web. This seminar will show you how to differentiate between the two versions of WorldCat, and to make the most efficient use of all aspects of this important resource

Wednesday, March 25, 3:15-4:30 PM, Room 192, Parks Library
Seminar options: on-site or online (webinar)
Preregistration is required.
Register on Access Plus under Employee HRS Course Listings

Not Just Facebook: Niche Social Network Sites
Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor, Science & Technology Department, ISU Library

While Facebook and MySpace are among the better-known general online social networks, there are an ever-increasing number of online networks that have emerged for and within a wide variety of groups. Among many others, these include networks for academe and education, people of color, Boomers, business, LGBT groups, religion, and researchers and scholars. This presentation offers an overview of these on other niche online networks and examines the potential benefit they may offer to colleges and universities and their communities.

Wednesday, February 25, 3:15-4:30, Parks Library 192.
Seminar options: on-site or online (webinar)
Preregistration is required.
Register on Access Plus under Employee HRS Course Listings

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More Library Seminars will be coming in March and April. Watch for details.

Questions on Seminar? Contact Jody A. Graden
at jgraden@iastate.edu or 515-294-6117

Questions on Webinar? Contact Rano Marupova
at ranomi@iastate.edu or 515-294-7129

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