Although the class is free of charge, pre-registration is required.

*Registration is much appreciated and can be completed at:

 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html

More information can be found for RefWorks at:

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/find/refworks/

On Thursday, May 1, Charisse Madlock-Brown will be teaching a class on how to use the online management tool RefWorks.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you to efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies.

It is also compatible with other databases and EndNote users can easily export their citation databases directly into RefWorks.

The workshop will be held at 3pm in the Info Commons East Room of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

To register for the class, go online to:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/find/refworks/workshops.html

This webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM CST at Hardin Library in Room 401.

Participation if free but you must register by contacting Brooke Billman at brooke-billman@uiowa.edu or 319.335.8554

For more information regarding webcast goals, presenters, or CE contact hours, please visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/

Please free to contact Brooke Billman with any questions regarding this event.

The sponsorship of this webcast site has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NLM-N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The workshop begins at 7 p.m. in the Information Commons, Level 2,  at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. A hands-on opportunity exploring these resources will also be provided.

According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 80 percent of American Internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for health information online. The report also says most Internet users start at a general search engine when researching health and medical advice online and 22 percent of these searchers feel frustrated by the lack of health information or an inability to find what they were looking for online.

This workshop is being held in conjunction with the “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” exhibit that will be on display at Hardin Library through Friday, Nov. 30. This exhibit tells the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the medical specialty they chose.

We can help you!

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences continues to offer classes on how to use EndNote. EndNote 7, by Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, searches remote databases and library catalogs on the Internet, imports references into and organizes personal libraries of citations, and produces papers written in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies. Want to learn more? Sign up for a class today:

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/endnoteclass.html

Here are a few of the changes for the newest version:

EndNote Version 7 For Windows (used with permission)

* Instant Subject Bibliographies: For the first time, users of EndNote 7 can create a bibliography with topic headings using EndNote’s new Subject Bibliography.
* Flexible Placement of Images from EndNote References into Microsoft Word: Users can take advantage of EndNotes new ability to insert a figure or table anywhere in a Microsoft Word® document.
* Compatibility with Popular Word Processors Using Rich Text Format (RTF) Files: EndNote 7 now offers the ability to create bibliographies using StarOffice, OpenOffice, AppleWorks, FrameMaker and more.
* New Connectivity of EndNote References Palm” Handheld and Visualization Software: EndNote 7 mobilizes a users EndNote library on Palm® OS.

Additional information about EndNote is available on Hardin Library’s Bibliographic Management Software page at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/endnote.html.

Most of us, at some point of our academic careers, have taken an exam where the questions were confusing and at times misleading. Did you get the feeling the instructor was trying to "trick" you? As an instructor have you written a question or two that you weren’t entirely happy with?

We’ve all been there as examinees or examiners. The purpose of this workshop is a brief introduction into improving a widely-used format on university exams: the multiple-choice item. In this workshop, the basic elements of the multiple-choice item will be broken down and explained along with a variety of traps that people can fall into when writing their items. This workshop also includes a non-stats person’s description of item statistics and what to look for from exam service when you are trying to improve your items.

Philip Bailey, from Academic Technologies will be conducting these sessions.

Sign up today!

Register at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/registration/ or contact Denise Britigan, Reference and Education Librarian at 319/335-7636 or denise-britigan@uiowa.edu.