Quick-Paced Learning Opportunities on Topics You Need to Succeed

Runs and Dashes are held simultaneously in the Library (EB 30201) & on Webex, so you can attend in-person or online! You will be sent a link when you register.

Please register at  tinyurl.com/rotrregister

Each Run or Dash attended = an entry into a grand prize drawing for an Amazon gift card!

Afternoon Runs: 30-minute workshops

Ready – Set – Research!
Wednesday, October 19, 3:30 pm

An introduction to the library’s website, resources and services. Learn how to find reliable information for papers and other assignments.

Zotero (Citation Management) Workshop
Wednesday, November 9, 3:05 pm

Find out how Zotero can help you organize and keep track of your sources, collaborate with others, and create citations in any format. This workshop will demonstrate how to use Zotero online and in the Zotero app, and will show how it can integrate with Microsoft Word and Google Docs.

Citation Review (MLA/APA)
Wednesday, November 16, 3:05 pm

We’ll provide a refresher and answer questions on both MLA and APA citation formats. The first half of the session (3:05-3:20) will cover MLA and the second half (3:20-3:35) will cover APA.

Database Dashes 15-minute database overviews – come to one or many

Wednesday, October 26

Literary Reference Ctr. (Literature) – 3:05 pm

Issues and Controversies (Topic Selection) – 3:20 pm

Wednesday, November 2

Hein Online (History/Government) – 3:05 pm

JSTOR (Multidisciplinary) – 3:20 pm

Wednesday, November 30

Scopus (Science/Social Science) – 3:05 pm

ABI/Inform (Business) – 3:20 pm

Evaluation Events

Short videos you can watch at your convenience on topics such as evaluating your sources, how algorithms and filter bubbles affect your Internet searches, who decides authority, identifying disinformation, and more. Check availability here: tinyurl.com/rotrevents

Questions? 860-832-2060 (Library Reference Desk)

Information is everywhere, bombarding us from all angles. With that influx of information comes great responsibility to weed out the good from the bad, to consume and share information responsibly and ethically. But it’s not always easy! This week is the United States Media Literacy Week (https://medialiteracyweek.us/about/theme/evaluate/) and the focus of today is Evaluation. Evaluation of information is a key component in both media and information literacy, and one that grows in importance as misinformation finds its way to our screens. The Elihu Burritt Library is doing a lot to help students learn how to evaluate the barrage of information that greets them each day. Libraries are wonderful places to go for access to reliable, credible information through sources that have already been vetted by professionals in the field, as well as librarians who work hard to help patrons navigate a tricky information landscape to find what they need. Libraries provide access to information; librarians provide the knowledge needed to critique and use that information.

In addition to reference help, our one-shot, and our embedded information literacy sessions with classes, where we teach students how to be critical of information they find, we are also running our second annual “Research on the Run” workshops throughout the fall semester, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating credible material. Our “Database Dashes” provide quick, 15-minute overviews of some popular databases that provide vetted material and get students off Google and into the databases. Our Evaluation Events focus on different aspects of evaluation through short video tutorials, including one on Lateral Reading, a newer technique used to evaluate websites. Lateral reading gets the user to verify a source by getting them off the website in question, evaluating its credibility by looking at what other sources say about the website itself. Through these different offerings, we hope to continue providing tools to students to help them escape the trap of misinformation and give them confidence to find sources that are trustworthy and appropriate for research. To learn more about our Research on the Run events, visit our guide at https://libguides.ccsu.edu/ResearchOnTheRun.

Subscription access to The Chronicle of Higher Ed is now available to members of the CCSU community through the Elihu Burritt Library at https://bit.ly/chroniclehe.

For details on how to find & use The Chronicle, see: https://libguides.ccsu.edu/2022-23/chronicle

The Chronicle of Higher Ed is provided as part of a shared subscription through the CSCU Library Consortium.