The Library offers a range of workshops for staff and students to acquire more essential library skills for studies and research. For students with the IT e-Portfolio graduation requirement, skills and knowledge learnt from the Library Workshops will help you to prepare your IT e-Portfolio; and you may also enter a reflective statement into your IT e-Portfolio based on your learning experience from the library workshops.
Certificate: For students, a digital Information Literacy Certificate will be awarded under the “Information Literacy Award Programme” if you join three or more workshops in an academic year. For new academic/teaching staff, all workshops are categorized as part of the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching Higher Education” under Theme IV: Learning and Teaching Support.
Exploring iSearchExploring iSearchThis workshop will cover all the tricks, secrets, practical searching skills and everything you need to know on locating books, journal articles, audio-visual materials, reports and dissertations quickly and effectively.
20 Sep 2023 (Wed) 15:30 – 16:30
English
Face-to-Face
Exploring iSearchExploring iSearchThis workshop will cover all the tricks, secrets, practical searching skills and everything you need to know on locating books, journal articles, audio-visual materials, reports and dissertations quickly and effectively.
28 Sep 2023 (Thu) 11:30 – 12:30
Cantonese
Zoom
Exploring iSearchExploring iSearchThis workshop will cover all the tricks, secrets, practical searching skills and everything you need to know on locating books, journal articles, audio-visual materials, reports and dissertations quickly and effectively.
11 Oct 2023 (Wed) 15:00 – 16:00
Putonghua
Face-to-Face
Learning RefworksLearning RefWorksRefWorks is an online research materials manager to manage and store the information resources needed for your coursework and research. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create an account, export and import references and citations, organize references into folders, insert in-text references and create a bibliography in APA or other citation styles into a Word document by using Write-N-Cite.
22 Sep 2023 (Fri) 11:30 – 12:30
English
Face-to-Face
Learning RefworksLearning RefWorksRefWorks is an online research materials manager to manage and store the information resources needed for your coursework and research. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create an account, export and import references and citations, organize references into folders, insert in-text references and create a bibliography in APA or other citation styles into a Word document by using Write-N-Cite.
4 Oct 2023 (Wed) 15:00 – 16:00
Putonghua
Face-to-Face
Learning RefworksLearning RefWorksRefWorks is an online research materials manager to manage and store the information resources needed for your coursework and research. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create an account, export and import references and citations, organize references into folders, insert in-text references and create a bibliography in APA or other citation styles into a Word document by using Write-N-Cite.
18 Oct 2023 (Wed) 17:30 – 18:30
Cantonese
Zoom
Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources of InformationAvoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources of InformationTo cover the basics of academic honesty, this workshop will show you how plagiarism can easily be avoided in research and studies with different examples of using information ethically. Proper methods in writing APA format citations in research papers and assignments will also be demonstrated.
19 Oct 2023 (Thu) 14:30 – 15:30
English
Face-to-Face
Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources of InformationAvoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources of InformationTo cover the basics of academic honesty, this workshop will show you how plagiarism can easily be avoided in research and studies with different examples of using information ethically. Proper methods in writing APA format citations in research papers and assignments will also be demonstrated.
8 Nov 2023 (Wed) 11:30 – 12:30
English
Zoom
Finding DissertationsFinding DissertationsFind out how you can locate dissertations and theses effectively from local and international universities that are relevant to your research work by using both Library and web resources. Database research skills for writing literature reviews will be presented, covering English and Chinese language materials.
25 Oct 2023 (Wed) 11:30 – 12:30
English (Supplemented with Cantonese)
Face-to-Face
Finding DissertationsFinding DissertationsFind out how you can locate dissertations and theses effectively from local and international universities that are relevant to your research work by using both Library and web resources. Database research skills for writing literature reviews will be presented, covering English and Chinese language materials.
2 Nov 2023 (Thu) 15:00 – 16:00
English (Supplemented with Cantonese)
Zoom
Using Google Effectively for Academic ResearchUsing Google Effectively for Academic ResearchLearn how to master Google and unleash its power as a research tool for quality academic resources in the Web. Join this workshop and get hands-on practice for searching scholarly literature using Google, Google Book, and Google Scholar and how to integrate Google Scholar with RefWorks and other Library-subscribed electronic resources seamlessly.
27 Sep 2023 (Wed) 11:30 – 12:30
English
Face-to-Face
Finding Hong Kong HistoryFinding Hong Kong HistoryOther than the information available in the library collection, what else can you search for Hong Kong history? This workshop shows you where to go on the Internet.
5 Oct 2023 (Thu) 12:00 – 13:00
Cantonese
Face-to-Face
Using Citation Databases to Explore Your Research TopicUsing Citation Databases to Explore Your Research TopicThis workshop will introduce two citation databases – Web of Science and Scopus. We will discuss how this kind of citation database can help in our research idea exploration.
Locating News ResourcesLocating News ResourcesLearn how to use the Library’s e-newspapers databases including WiseNews, South China Morning Post, Factiva, and other Internet resources to locate news articles.
26 Oct 2023 (Thu) 11:30 – 12:30
English
Face-to-Face
Discovering Journal MetricsDiscovering Journal MetricsInCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Sources session of Scopus database are major platforms that give us figures and tools for research publication evaluation. We will focus on journal-level metrics, including journal ranking, journal impact factor, and other indicators offered by these databases. We will investigate what these indicators mean to research evaluation.
15 Nov 2023 (Wed) 15:30 – 16:30
English
Zoom
Alternatively, you may request workshops for a particular subject area or a specific course assignment at any time during the year. Please contact us at 2948 6653 or request a library workshop online. A minimum of 5 participants for each class is required.
Thank you for your interest in joining library skills workshops. All workshops are ended this semester. Workshop materials are still available.
Please check back later to register for the next semester workshops in September 2023.
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