For a list of dates and times, and to sign up, to go YARR and sign up online!
Library tours are designed to give GSLIS students a “geographic” overview of the Simmons Library and to acquaint you with valuable information and services. As graduate students of the library science program, it is your responsibility to become familiar with the Library and its resources.
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We offer scheduled tours of the Beatley Library at various times throughout the day from Wednesday, January 23 through Tuesday, January 29. You will meet your tour guide on Level 1 of the Beatley Library in the comfy chairs inside the Library on Level 1 (Straight ahead when you enter the library). If you can’t make any of the scheduled tours , please contact gslisworkshops@simmons.edu to schedule a one-on-one tour.
For a list of dates and times go to YARR and sign up online!
OPAC is library-speak for Online Public Access Catalog, but there is much more to the Library’s web site than the catalog.
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Date and times will be announced in YARR as soon as they are available.
Times not convenient? Contact Linda Watkins at 617.521.2824 or gslisworkshops@simmons.edu to schedule a time that works for you.
Meet LISA & her friends Library Literature & LISTA up close and personal. LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts), Library Literature, and LISTA (Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts) are databases that index the literature of librarianship from the mid 1960’s to the present. These databases are used to find full text, citations, and/or abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews, reports, research, and proceedings.
Objectives:
Date and times will be announced in YARR as soon as they are available.
Times not convenient? Contact Linda Watkins at 617.521.2824
or gslisworkshops@simmons.edu to schedule a time that works for you.
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from OPACs, text files, or online databases. You can even use these references in writing papers to automatically format the in-text citations and the bibliography in seconds.
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This workshop is offered weekly through the library, times to be announced. In the meantime, contact Contact Dixie Foster at dixie@simmons.edu or call 617.521.2828 to schedule a personal tutorial.
Please sign up ASAP if you plan to attend; workshops will fill up. Additional workshops can be scheduled to fit individual student needs. Contact Linda Watkins at 617.521.2824 or gslisworkshops@simmons.edu to schedule.
Cancellation Policy
If you can not attend a workshop you have signed up for please notify Linda Watkins at 617.521.2824
or email gslisworkshops@simmons.edu.
Workshops are limited in size; an empty seat
can be filled by another student.
Any workshop cancellation due to weather or a conflict of schedule for the instructor will be rescheduled. All students who have signed up for the workshop will be notified via their Simmons email of all cancellations.
Workshops will not be cancelled as long as one student has signed up.
If no one has signed up 24 hours prior to the scheduled time of a workshop, it will be cancelled.
Workshops begin on schedule, please be on time. If no one arrives, the instructor will wait 10 minutes, after which the workshop will be cancelled. Students who arrive late will have to follow along; the instructor will not start over.
GSLIS Toolkit workshops are held in the GSLIS West office in South Hadley, MA. Announcements will be sent to the GSLIS West listserv approximately a week prior to the workshop date.
If you are a Boston student and are interested in attending workshops in the Pioneer Valley, watch the GSLIS West Toolkit page
Unless otherwise noted, all GSLIS West workshops will be held in the GSLIS Office in the Village Commons. If a workshop must be cancelled due to inclement weather or another emergency, a notice will be posted to the GSLIS West listserv no later than 3 hours prior to the workshop.
If you have questions about a particular workshop or suggestions for a new workshop, please contact Dixie Foster at dixie@simmons.edu or call 617.521.2828.
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