During November, the Library is running information management training sessions at the Silwood Park campus.

Three of the sessions will take place as part of the Graduate School Professional Skills programme. They will be run in the Computer Lab in the Hamilton Building and will count towards the Professional Skills attendance requirement for research students. These sessions are open to PhD students only and Master's students are not eligible to attend. 

The Information Landscape: Keeping your research up to date - Tuesday 12 November 2013 (10.00 – 11.00)
Provides students with an introduction to the wide variety of resources available for locating information and keeping up to date in their research area.

Information Retrieval - Tuesday 12 November 2013 (11.30 – 12.30)
A comprehensive introduction to information resources and search tools available at Imperial.

EndNote - Wednesday 27 November 2013 (10.30 – 12.30)
EndNote is a software package that allows you to manage all the references you need for your papers, reports, essays or theses by enabling you to keep them in your own personal database or library. In addition, you can use it to insert citations into your documents. EndNote is compatible with Windows and Mac. 

More information on each session and booking details are available on the Graduate School website.

The following workshop is not part of the Graduate School programme and will not count towards the Professional Skills attendance requirement.

Web 2.0 / Social media workshop – how can you use these tools and technologies for your research? Tuesday 12 November 2013 (14.00 – 15.30)
This workshop will be led by what participants are interested in learning about. Potential tools/topics for discussion would be based on the content found on the Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools programme – specifically blogs, evaluation tools, networks and networking, online collaborative tools, RSS, social bookmarking and reference management and wikis as well as the idea of building your online identity. Imperial case studies will be highlighted along the way.

Please contact e.killeen@imperial.ac.uk to book a place on the above workshop. If there is any topic or area you would like covered during the workshop please let Elizabeth know. This session will take place in the Computer Lab in the Hamilton Building.