Learn how to use ARTstor in your class. This session will teach you how to select images in ARTstor and create presentations and shared folders from the selected images.

Intended Audience: faculty and graduate students

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Coming soon, per popular demand! Learn how to open image files, use the toolbox and palettes, and manage multiple layers. Spice-up your images by inserting text, shapes and special effects, get them ready for publishing, and much more. Make sure you are on our waiting list to receive priority when registration starts!

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Learn to use Beilstein CrossFire to profile compounds according to structure and properties. This workshop will cover complex substructure search techniques to identify molecules with a core structure of interest, as well as methods of generating sets of compounds with desired physical properties. Attendees are requested to come with a working knowledge of the Beilstein CrossFire structure editor.

Intended Audience: Chemical science researchers familiar with Beilstein CrossFire

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This hands-on workshop will let you dive into business information and decision making tools. Explore a Company, its Industry, and the Economy using investment grade resources.

Intended Audience: MBA students, Undergraduates

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This workshop goes beyond the content of the basic EndNote/Refworks workshop to show attendees how to import references directly from e-journals, to use EndNote to search Franklin and PubMed, and to edit journal styles that aren't quite right. Other topics will be discussed based on participant interest; please come equipped with specific questions and problems.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists, computer scientists, and engineers

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Get an in-depth look at the Gmelin data structure. Learn to design and execute complex text queries, substructure searches, inorganic polymer searches, and coordination compound/metal complex searches, as well as examining methods of locating properties of organometallic and inorganic compounds and materials.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists and engineers

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This workshop goes into some of the more advanced search features of SciFinder Scholar, particularly focusing on structure and reaction searching. It also introduces some time-saving tips that novice searchers may not have discovered.

Intended Audience: Chemical and biological science researchers familiar with SciFinder Scholar

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Having trouble staying current on the latest research in your field? Want to get the latest Table of Contents from your favorite journals? Learn the answers to these questions and more in the new Alerting Services class. We will go over the basics of how to save a topic search, how to have it run automatically for you, and how to set up a Table of Contents service for your particular subject journals. This class is a must for researchers, graduate students or anyone else needing to stay up to date. You will never be behind the eight ball again when it comes to being completely informed.

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Sessions include: audio-editing, improving sound quality, producing podcasts, mixing multiple audio sources. Please check session description for details.

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Learn basic Beilstein CrossFire search techniques, including drawing a structure in the CrossFire structure editor, performing a search for an exact structure search, a simple substructure search, a partial or complete reaction search, and a combined structure-text search to find property information on compounds.

Intended Audience: Chemical science researchers

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Restricted workshops on BlackBoard

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Blackboard courseware workshops designed for faculty, instructors and graduate students.

Intended Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Librarians

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Learn how to manage your course site, upload documents and syllabi, send email efficiently to students, create announcements and manage your student rosters. Additional tools to be discussed may include Assignments, Assessments, Discussion Board and the Grade Center.

Intended Audience: School of Nursing Instructors and Staff

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Participants will learn how to create and use Blackboard and Wimba communication tools such as Chats, Threaded Discussions, Journals, Teamsites, Voiceboards and Voice Direct. Restricted to instructors, faculty and librarians.

Intended Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Librarians

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Bloomberg is the definitive source of information for security pricing, indicative and fundamental data, customized analytics and business news. This class covers basic database structure and commands with a focus on practical and useful examples.

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Come discover sources for building your first-rate business plan. Now that you know what your plan should contain, come prepared to investigate library resources that will help you to fill in the blanks. Uncover key marketing and financial information for your business plan, find sources for financing, and learn about your key competitors.

Intended Audience: MBAs, undergraduates, graduate students

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Are you working on an invention that has market potential or engaging in a start-up company? Then come take advantage of this workshop focusing on business information resources available here at Penn. Penn Libraries provides a wide variety of tools for conducting market research, evaluating companies as employers/competitors/collaborators, seeking investment capital, and surveying the patent literature. Arm yourself with knowledge to enter the corporate world!

Intended Audience: Engineers

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By gaining an understanding of the basic structure and content of the United States census, students will be able to decide which data needs can be met by the census and how to start locating useful data.

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Learn to effectively and efficiently search for chemical reaction and reagent information using a host of print and online materials, including Science of Synthesis and Houben-Weyl; the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Organic Syntheses online; comprehensive collections; and the old favorites: SciFinder, Beilstein, and Gmelin.

Intended Audience: Chemical science researchers, particularly synthetic chemists

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Penn has chosen Turning Point clicker technology that integrates with PowerPoint. We will explore creating clicker questions, testing, using clickers in class and connecting the data to your Blackboard course. Assumes working knowledge of PowerPoint and restricted to faculty, instructors and librarians. More info at http://wic.library.upenn.edu/multimedia/clickers/

Intended Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Librarians

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Explore Comic Life's ability to quickly create a comic book or graphic novel. Bring in images, screen shots from movies, scanned drawings and other graphics. Add effects and push the boundaries of comic book design. Print, or make a web version with ease.

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This workshop will introduce participants to the best methods to find journal articles on CAM topics in several health databases: PubMed Plus, CINAHL/ Nursing, EMBASE, and AMED. In addition, it will demonstrate how to find the many resources available in the Penn Libraries and on the web. Participants will learn how to: limit PubMed and CINAHL databases searches to CAM-related citations; use EMBASE and AMED to find unique CAM-related article citations; use the Penn Libraries' Franklin Online Catalog and FindIt box to locate CAM-related books and journals held by the Penn Libraries; use the Penn Libraries' FindIt box to locate CAM-related resources from the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and the National Library of Medicine; find free journal articles on CAM topics not held in the Penn Libraries by using Google or another search engine; find additional materials on special CAM topics (Herbs for Pets, Herbs in Pregnancy, etc.) using Google or another search engine. Participants will learn how to: Limit PubMed and CINAHL databases searches to CAM-related citations; Use Embase and AMED to find unique CAM-related article citations; Use the Penn Libraries' Franklin Online Catalog and FindIt box to locate CAM-related books and journals held by the Penn Libraries; Use the Penn Libraries' FindIt box to locate CAM-related resources from the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and the National Library of Medicine; Find free journal articles on CAM topics not held in the Penn Libraries by using Google or another search engine; Find additional materials on special CAM topics (Herbs for Pets, Herbs in Pregnancy, etc.) using Google or another search engine.

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We will explore strategies appropriate for a conference presentation including engaging the audience, using visual support such as PowerPoint, communicating research results, and fielding questions. We will conduct hands-on activities, evaluating and revising examples. Please email wic1@pobox.upenn.edu with any presentation materials that you would like the presenters to comment upon. Presented by Anu Vedantham and Sue Weber.

Intended Audience: Individuals preparing to present at professional conferences.

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Interested in keeping up on the latest research in your field? Want all your favorite journals and E-resources in one convenient, personalized, place? This workshop will help you understand the various personalized homepages and feed readers available, and how you can add items to create your own page.

Intended Audience: Physical Scientists and Engineers

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Evidence Based Medicine supports the clinical decision making practices of health care professionals by providing them with accumulated evidence from the primary medical literature. Resources, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, and DARE (Database of Abstracts of Review of Effectiveness), will be discussed. Focus will be on search techniques, browsing, print/save commands, and links to other Ovid databases.

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Described as a European version of Medline, Embase indexes 7,000+ journals from over 70 countries. EMBASE is a comprehensive and international bibliographic database renowned for its extensive coverage of the drug and biomedical literature. Workshop topics include basic EMTREE subject, author, journal, and keyword, search techniques. Remote access, printing, email, and downloading will also be discussed.

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This lecture-style workshop is for new and experienced EndNote users. Come and see the new features of the latest EndNote version. Learn the basics of this popular bibliographic management program and how to use it with its Web version, EndNote Web. All EndNote questions will be taken.

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Haven't decided which personal bibliographic citation database to use? Come to this one hour session to learn the pros and cons of two such tools. We will discuss cost, access, and unique features of both Refworks and EndNote software.

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Learn the basics of how to create your own personal bibliographic citation database using this popular personal information management commercial program. The workshop will focus on how to manually enter references into your database, load citations from a bibliographic database into EndNote and insert them into a document in an appropriate manuscript style. NOTE: The Library has purchased a site license for the networked bibliographic management program, RefWorks. If you have not yet purchased Endnote, consider attending a Refworks workshop as an alternative.

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Learn the basics of how to use EndNote to create your own personal bibliographic citation database. The workshop will focus on how to create a personal database, load citations from databases and library catalogs into EndNote, organize and annotate references, format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents selecting from a number of manuscript citation styles.

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Explore student engagement through technology. The symposium will include faculty insights, hands-on exploration and small-group discussion. Open to Penn faculty, instructors and graduate students. The morning session is now full. Please register for afternoon sessions only at this link: http://tinyurl.com/nkwrzb

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Discover ways to use library resources in your entrepreneurial endeavors. Uncover key marketing and financial information for your business plan, find sources for financing, learn about your key competitors, and uncover sources for business ideas.

Intended Audience: MBA students, undergraduates

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This popular spreadsheet package provides significant data analysis and graphing capabilities.

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Learn how to create spreadsheets, enter and format data, use mathematical calculations, and more. This is a basic course, addressed to users with no previous experience with the software.

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Learn how to create spreadsheets, enter and format data, use mathematical calculations, and more. This is a basic course, addressed to users with no previous experience with the software.

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This series is designed for faculty and instructors and provides hands-on experiences with new media, software and online resources.

Intended Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Librarians

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Need tips to help you do thorough research for your upcoming presentations? This workshop will explain the concept of Medical Subject Headings, show you how to set up NCBI accounts, demonstrate the use of filters, and much more!

Intended Audience: Dental Faculty, Staff, and Students

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Some laptops will be provided, but please bring your own laptop if you have one: As the web is becoming a more flexible and robust research environment, the library is finding ways to use new technologies to more efficiently find and use research level resources. Attendees will be introduced to the library's groundbreaking tool for storing, sharing and organizing research links, and will learn how to customize Firefox to make it an efficient tool for research.

Intended Audience: Anyone

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Replaced by From Assignments to References workshop. Representatives of the Library, the Critical Writing Program, the Office of Learning Resources and Communication within the Curriculum will lead a workshop designed to assist undergraduates with their research, writing, presentation and organizational needs.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates

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Communication within the Curriculum (CWiC), Weingarten Learning Resources Center (VPUL), Writing Center and Penn Libraries assist undergraduates with research, writing, presentation, organization and technology.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates

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You've found a reference to the perfect article, but how do you get your hands on it? This session will show you the secrets that the Library staff use everyday to locate full text articles in our online databases. We will also discuss alternative methods to obtaining articles when electronic full text is not available.

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Students will be introduced to ArcGIS software and will learn how to make a map using data from Census2000. Students with some GIS knowledge who would like to learn more about adding census data, and those new to GIS are welcome to attend. To decide whether this workshop is right for you, contact Laurie Allen (laallen@pobox.upenn.edu).

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Finding quality information quickly can be a breeze, with a few tips and techniques.

Intended Audience: Scientists and Engineers

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Google is changing the way people find and use information.

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Maximize your use of Google and other web search engines by learning advanced search techniques, tools and services that you might not be familiar with: Google Scholar, Google Book Search, Google Maps, Google Uncle Sam, Ask.com. And how to use these resources to find scholarly resources quickly and effectifely.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates

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Learn to search the medical literature like a physician does! This one hour course will provide you an introduction to the medical literature databases and give you an added edge in medical school.

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Learn about selected online Library resources, such as subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers, that might be helpful for kids doing homework assignments at the elementary and secondary level, as well as other useful resources for the home environment.

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Confused about the electronic resources available through the library? This workshop will cover an overview of the information services available through the Science & Engineering libraries including how to optimize your use of the library website and an introduction to some good starting tools for your research needs.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates, physical scientists, computer scientists, chemists and engineers

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Learn how to use iMovie for capturing video clips and iPhoto for creating slide shows with audio. NEW!: Learn also how to rip video from DVDs and edit into clips using QuickTime on your personal computer. Restricted to instructors, faculty and librarians.

Intended Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Librarians

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Learn how to use Citation Indexes at Penn.

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Discover resources to support your job search. Learn how to identify employers by screening for companies by industry, geography and size. Then, get prepared for your interviews by using Lippincott's databases to find company news, company analysis and industry analysis.

Intended Audience: MBA students, undergraduates

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An overview of the ISI Web of Knowledge database

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Library at Lunchtime Please feel free to bring your lunch to this seminar series. Each seminar is a 30 minute presentation followed by a half hour for discussion. Don't read your paper! Strategies for presenting a research paper An undergraduate CWiC speaking advisor will discuss important considerations for preparing and delivering your research presentation.

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This workshop introduces legal materials, commentary, case law research, and Congressional law making from enactment to codification. It has the goal of teaching non-law students how to perform basic electronic legal research and focuses on materials available on the University Libraries homepage and the Internet. The workshop will consist of a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises. Time will be available for questions and answers.

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We will review how these databases work and how to find and keep resources efficiently.

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A humanities and social science reference librarian will show you how to get the most from the library's website, featuring hands-on instruction in using electronic journals, databases, and document delivery services. A guided walk through the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center will include computer labs, the Music Library, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, Van Pelt Library's 2.58 million volume open stacks, and the library's newest space, the Weigle Information Commons.

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Library at Lunchtime - Please feel free to bring your lunch to this seminar series. Each seminar is a 30 minute presentation followed by a half hour for discussion. Please check Session Title for details on each session.

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Tour Lippincott, the Wharton School's award winning library. Includes study and seminar rooms, computing facilities, research services and a brief introduction to accessing online resources.

Intended Audience: MBA students, PhD students, Undergraduates

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We will discuss book review searches, play and theater reviews, MLA International Bibliography, subject databases in literature and area studies resources

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Learn to use the two library-supported citation management programs, EndNote and RefWorks, to import citations from databases, search a personal library of citations, and insert citations into a journal article or document in the style of your choice.

Intended Audience: Physical Scientists and Engineers

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This workshop will provide students with hands-on experience with the resources at the NCBI site and will learn how to apply these resources in their specific research area. The course provides practical information about GenBank, RefSeq and the integrated genome resources, as well as the other databases maintained at the NCBI. It also provides instruction on effective use of Entrez and BLAST, the two main database search tools. ALL SESSIONS ARE IDENTICAL AND WILL COVER THE SAME MATERIAL.

Intended Audience: researchers, graduate students, faculty, staff

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This 3 hour lecture will provide practical information about GenBank and the other sequence databases maintained at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Intended Audience: researchers, graduate students, faculty, staff

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A set of four different, problem-based or resource-based, bioinformatics workshops. Class will consist of a lecture and hands-on time. Each course will accommodate only 20 people so register early. Courses are: Bioinformatics Quick Start: The course provides an introduction to aspects of bioinformatics such as accessing, analyzing, and interpreting biological data using NCBI databases and tools. Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences: in this mini-course, we will find a gene within a eukaryotic DNA sequence. We will then predict the function of the implied protein product by seeking sequence similarities to proteins of documented function using BLAST and other tools. Finally, we will find a 3D modeling template for this protein sequence using a Conserved Domain Database Search. Correlating Disease Genes and Phenotypes: We will learn to determine what is known about a disease and the gene associated with it. We will then elucidate the biochemical and structural basis for the phenotype caused by the mutant protein. Microbial Genome Quick Start: in this mini-course, you will learn how to access the microbial genome sequences and annotations, how to navigate through and download the gene and protein datasets, and will be introduced to the available genomic and comparative genomic analysis tools.

Intended Audience: faculty, graduate students, researchers, staff

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This workshop teaches physical scientists and engineers how to make use of the NCBI suite of resources in their research. Topics covered include sequence, structure, and gene databases, as well as interlinking between these resources.

Intended Audience: Physical Scientists and Engineers

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This workshop will examine the different ways of performing structure and sequence searches using the NCBI resources from the National Library of Medicine. It is aimed at complete novices and will introduce the protein and nucleotide resources availble through the Entrez suite of databases. In addition to retrieving protein and nucleic acid records, attendees will learn the basics of BLAST searching for sequentially similar molecules and VAST searching to find proteins that are structurally similar to a substance of interest.

Intended Audience: Scientists and Engineers

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Are you in compliance? Update on NIH Public Access Policy

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A basic introduction to this powerful image editing software. Learn how to open image files, use the toolbox and palettes, convert formats and manage multiple layers.

Intended Audience: Assumes familiarity with basic computer use.

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Special topics with PhotoShop - assumes knowledge of topics covered in the PhotoShop Basics workshop.

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Access biomedical databases including MEDLINE via the Web. Topics include basic OVID subject, author, journal, keyword, and multi-file search techniques. Remote access, printing, email, and downloading will also be discussed.

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Looking for an article on corporate culture from the Harvard Business Review? Interested in keeping up with the latest business news? Preparing for job interviews? Have an assignment due tomorrow that requires examining company financials from the last ten years? Wondering how you can fit it all in? Maximize your research efforts and minimize preparation time by attending a one-hour session to learn about the wealth of resources available to you through Lippincott, Wharton's premier research library.

Intended Audience: MBA students, undergraduates

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Patents are a crucial source of cutting edge technical information. Learn to use Derwent Innovations Index, USPTO, and esp@cenet to access the full text of patents, use patent families to find English language equivalents of foreign patents, and learn to use classification codes and do cited patent searches.

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This session is meant for librarians who are unfamiliar with PennTags or want to learn to use it better. It will focus on methods of adding, annotating and organizing PennTags records. We will also discuss how PennTags projects can serve as building blocks in creating research guides, subject guides, collection pages and other Web pages.

Intended Audience: Librarians

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PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your online resources. You will learn how to set up your computer to get started with Penntags, and how to use Penntags to add and annotate books, journal articles, films, and websites. http://tags.library.upenn.edu

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This workshop will provide a general overview of the information resources available about the city of Philadelphia and how to use the library to find these resources.

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This professional image-editing software assists with online and print publications.

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This course will teach users to locate physical properties and thermodynamic properties of a wide variety of compounds, including organics, inorganics, and other small molecules. Some basic spectroscopic resources will be included.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists and engineers

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Trying to create a poster to explain your research project to others? Wondering how to make a powerful visual statement? We will explore designing your poster in PowerPoint. We will look at page size options, font and color choices, Word Art, Autoshapes and drawing tools. Bring your poster information with you as well as your personal laptop if appropriate. We will share tips and tricks for poster formatting, show examples and discuss preparing a PDF for printing in the Vitale Digital Media Lab or similar facility. Note: This is a hands-on workshop.

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This workshop will cover the basics of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more. This workshop is oriented towards those with little or no experience with PowerPoint.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates

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Learn the basics of PowerPoint hands-on. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more.

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Learn the basics of PowerPoint hands-on. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more.

Intended Audience: General

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This workshop will cover the basics of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more. This workshop will also devote a few minutes to basic copyright issues pertaining to PowerPoint presentations. NOTE: The objectives in "PowerPoint I" are considered prerequisite to all subsequent sessions.

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This course will cover the more advanced features of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create their own templates using master slides, import images from the Web, use Custom Animation, insert graphs and tables, and more. NOTE: This course is fast-paced and addressed to users who have taken PowerPoint I or have previous experience with the software.

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This course will cover the more advanced features of PowerPoint. Participants will learn to create their own templates using master slides, import images from the Web, use Custom Animation, insert graphs and tables, and more. This workshop will also devote a few minutes to basic copyright issues pertaining to PowerPoint presentations. NOTE: This course is fast-paced and addressed to users who have taken PowerPoint I or have previous experience with the software.

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This seminar will cover in depth the animation features of PowerPoint. Participants will have the opportunity to bring their animation projects to class and work on them with the instructors assistance. NOTE: This is an ADVANCED course, addressed to users who have already taken PowerPoint I AND II or have strong familiarity with advanced PowerPoint features such as basic animation and drawing.

Intended Audience: advanced PowerPoint users

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This course will teach the user how to effectively access and search PubMed, the NLMs interface for Medline. Basic search techniques for subject, author name, journal title and text word will be discussed, as will strategies for formulating searches. The Limit, Preview/Index, History and Clipboard options will be covered in-depth.

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This course will teach users to get the most out of these National Library of Medicine databases, which cover information relating to health/life science fields including biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists and engineers

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Is it time to take a second look at Qualitative Data Analysis software? Encoding texts? Ethnographic work? What is the role of software in qualitative analysis? Can software save you time? Improve consistency? What are the differences between the available packages? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How difficult are these packages to learn and use? The University of Pennsylvania Libraries are sponsoring a symposium designed to help researchers who use qualitative methods learn about available software for analysis. Raymond Maietta, Ph.D., a leading consultant on Qualitative Research Methods, and an expert on the use of Software in Qualitative Research, will give an overview of the role of QDA software, and will introduce participants to the leading software packages in the area. Following Dr. Maietta's overview of the packages, we will hear from faculty in a number of fields about their experience using Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Packages discussed will include: NVivo, MaxQDA, Atlas.Ti, etc.

Intended Audience: Penn Faculty and Graduate Students

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Reaxys contains information on organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds, their properties, and their reactions. It is a new, Web-based interface to the Beilstein and Gmelin data, and it also includes a new patent chemistry database. The Penn Libraries are deciding whether or not to switch Beilstein and Gemlin to this new platform; please come, try it out, and let us know what you think!

Intended Audience: Chemists, materials scientists and engineers

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Learn the basics of how to create your own personal bibliographic citation database using this web-based bibliographic management tool. The workshop will focus on how to create a personal database online, import references automatically from databases and library catalogs, organize and annotate references, format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents and more. NOTE: RefWorks is freely available to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff.

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Learn the basics of how to use RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management tool to create your own personal bibliographic citation database. The workshop will focus on how to create a personal database online, import references automatically from databases and library catalogs into RefWorks, organize and annotate references, format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents and more. NOTE: RefWorks is freely available to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff.

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Learn the basics of how to create your own personal bibliographic citation database using this web-based bibliographic management tool. The workshop will focus on how to create a personal database online, import references automatically from databases and library catalogs, organize and annotate references, format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents and more. NOTE: RefWorks is freely available to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff.

Intended Audience: Undergraduates

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Learn to use scientific databases, such as SciFinder, Derwent, and the Science Citation Index, to identify companies and universities researching in your area of interest. Then, learn to use some of the business databases to get the full scoop on companies in preparation for an interview.

Intended Audience: Chemical Science Researchers

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Learn to use scientific databases, such as Inspec, Compendex, Derwent, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index, to identify companies and universities researching in your area of interest. Then, learn to use some of the business databases to get the full scoop on companies in preparation for an interview.

Intended Audience: Engineers

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SciFinder searches the literature of chemistry and the related fields by topic, author, substance, and reaction. Data searched comes from Chemical Abstracts, MEDLINE, and CASREACT, a chemical reaction database. Learn basic methods of searching, including structure and reaction searching, tricks for effective text searching, simple substructure searching, and refining and analyzing text, substance, or reaction searches.

Intended Audience: Scientists and Engineers

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The databases of SciFinder Scholar are now available to the Penn community via two different interfaces: the traditional SciFinder Scholar client interface and the new SciFinder Web interface. This workshop will highlight the differences between the two, enabling you to decide which interface works best for your query. Attendees must have an active Penn e-mail address in order to make use of SciFinder Web.

Intended Audience: All users of SciFinder Scholar with active Penn e-mail addresses

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SciFinder searches the literature of chemistry and the related fields by topic, author, substance, and reaction. This workshop is an introduction to the version of SciFinder: SciFinder on the Web! Solve those off-campus problems once and for all, as you learn how to use your favorite functions from the SciFinder client in a Web environment.

Intended Audience: All current users of SciFinder Scholar

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The Science Citation Index on the ISI Web of Science has a new look! Topics covered will include a comparison of past and present interfaces, general and citation search techniques, setting up topic and citation alerts, and learning about various citation metrics that show the impact of a scholar or topic on the community.

Intended Audience: Scientists and Engineers

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Scopus is a multidisciplinary and strong scientific abstract and citation database that covers over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers. Learn how to search for journal citations, conference proceedings, trade publications, and patents using the Scopus interface. In addition, discover how Scopus can help identify research trends, track researcher output, identify important publications, and calculate one's "h index".

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You've got questions, but does Google really have all the answers? Learn how to optimize your use of all the flavors of Google, (Classic, Scholar, Book Search, USGov) and when to turn to more specialized and powerful search tools like ISI Science Citation Index, PubMed Plus, INSPEC/Compendex and more.

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Second Life is an interactive virtual environment that shows promise for educational and creative activities in several disciplines.

Intended Audience: Faculty, staff and librarians

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This workshop is designed for faculty and researchers at Penn to learn how to use Selected Works, an easy to use interface for creating personal research web pages and Scholarly Commons, an online archive of scholarly articles and books. We will actually be setting up accounts and creating web pages at the workshop, so come prepared with CVs, articles, or other materials you might like to put online.

Intended Audience: faculty, graduate students, researchers

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Learn advanced searching techniques that will allow you to determine if specific authors and works have been cited in the writings of other writers. These search techniques enable researchers to trace how various studies have influenced or have been influenced by others, as well as find relevant resources for their own work.

Intended Audience: Anyone

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All researchers need to know the literature in their field and how to search for and obtain relevant information. To help make this process more effective and efficient, these sessions will introduce students of the social sciences to techniques for locating and accessing literature from around the world, tracking citations, and making the best use of dissertations.

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All researchers need to know the literature in their field and how to search for and obtain relevant information. To help make this process more effective and efficient, these sessions will introduce students of the social sciences to techniques for locating and accessing literature from around the world, tracking citations, and making the best use of dissertations.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students

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Learn to effectively and efficiently search for synthesis information using a host of online materials, including Science of Synthesis and Houben-Weyl; the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Organic Syntheses online; and the old favorites: SciFinder, Beilstein, and Gmelin.

Intended Audience: Synthetic chemists

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This series showcases new technologies. Vendor presentations may include sales-related content.

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Creating this workshop to test some features like deleting workshop with sessions with restricted views etc.

Intended Audience: none as of now

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Test all kinds of stuff lile 'single' and "double" quotes, and more chars like ; ~ and what not and try more.. please ` ! @ # $ % ^ &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; * ( ) _ - + = \ | \$ @da $ac Testing for 'single quotes' and "double quotes" Asd 'a''as' "as""as""as""as"

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Learn how to use the Weigle Information Commons Videorecording rooms. We will explore recording and camera options hands-on and discuss troubleshooting.

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Learn how to use the Weigle Information Commons Videorecording rooms. We will explore recording and camera options hands-on and discuss troubleshooting.

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Special event - details at session level

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These workshops, offered at various levels, provide guidance on good web design principles, overview tools available and enable exploration of the technical aspects of web design.

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Presented by Weingarten Learning Resources Center at the Weigle Information Commons

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Find out about all of the newest services and resources available from the Science and Engineering Libraries.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists, computer scientists, and engineers

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Find out which are the most prominent journals in your field.

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Zotero is a great way to organize your online resources, bibliographies, blog posts and PDFs. Keep track of what you have found, and find it again easily.

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This class will provide a hands-on introduction to using Apple's iMovie '09 software, which is available for Penn students, faculty, and staff in the Vitale Digital Media Lab. You will learn how to capture video, organize or delete video clips, add a new soundtrack, add subtitles, and create special effects. You will also learn how to export your video into a usable form so that you can share your masterpiece with others.

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This workshop is designed to teach effective searching of the INSPEC and COMPENDEX databases, combined on a single platform, to locate journal articles, conference papers, and report literature in the fields of physics, engineering, computer science, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, and robotics. Topics covered will include keyword, author and journal title searching; how and when to use database-specific search fields such as the chemicals or numeric data field; combining and limiting searches; and downloading your results.

Intended Audience: Physical scientists, computer scientists, and engineers

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