WISER sessions in week 6

All members of the University and Bodleian Library Readers may attend WISER workshops. Some individual workshops are designed for particular groups (for example researchers or postgraduates). Check the individual class descriptions for more details. Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops in Week 6. WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO [Wednesday 30 May 14.00 - [...]

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WISER courses in Week 5

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 5: WISER: Information Sources for African Studies [Monday 21 May 09.15 - 10.45] – This session will cover finding tools for locating African Studies materials, key portals and gateways for African Studies and online archives of primary texts.  Starting with a presentation the session will [...]

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WISER courses in week 4

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 4:       ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning [Tuesday 15 May 14:00-16:00] – This workshops covers two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University – ARTstor and Bridgeman Education – geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science [...]

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WISER Sessions next week on RefWorks and depositing your DPhil thesis in ORA

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 3: WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA [Wednesday 9 May 12:30 – 1:30] – Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive).  This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need [...]

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WISER Sessions on finding stuff next week

Are you confident that you are finding the best papers to support your research and study?  Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops on finding scholarly materials. WISER: Finding stuff – books etc on SOLO (Monday 30 April 14.00.-15.00 and repeated Wednesday 30 May 14.00-14.45)  – introduces SOLO for searching Oxford Libraries and focuses on effective ways [...]

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Bodleian WISER training next week on ebooks and ebook readers and RefWorks – book places now

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following classes during week 7: WISER: E-Books [Wednesday 29 February 2.00 - 3.00] An overview of what is currently available and how to access them from the point of view of the student, the researcher and the academic. Presenters:  Hilla Wait and Jo Gardner >Book Now WISER: E-Book Readers [...]

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WISER sessions next week on finding stuff

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following classes during week 6: WISER: Finding stuff – Books etc on SOLO (Wednesday 22 February 2.00-2.45) – Ashort 45 minute session introducing tips and techniques for searching SOLO for books, journals and other materials in Oxford Libraries. We will cover both basic and advanced search techniques and also [...]

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Bodleian Libraries WISER workshops on using images and reference management

Bodleian Libraries will be running  the following workshops in Hilary Term week 3: ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning [Tuesday 7 February 2.00 - 4:00]  –  This  course examines two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University – ARTstor and Bridgeman Education – geared to research and teaching in the humanities, [...]

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WISER sessions on finding resources and depositing your thesis

There are lots of helpful WISER training sessions coming up in the coming weeks.  You can subscribe to a feed of upcoming sessions to keep track too. WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO [Monday 23 January 9.15 - 10.00] – Effective search techniques for finding books and other library materials using SOLO, ordering [...]

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Bodleian Libraries workshops week 31 Oct: E-books and E-book readers

Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running the following classes and workshops: WISER: E-Books (Wednesday 2 November 14.00 - 15.00)  - An overview of what is currently available and how to access them from the point of view of the student, the researcher and the academic. Presenter: Hilla Wait Book your place online. WISER: E-Book Readers (Wednesday 2 November 15.15 [...]

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