Library Research Skills Workshops
Workshop Information
- Register for workshops (opens one week beforehand)
- Workshops are one hour in length.
- Workshops are held online (Zoom).
- All include an in-class assignment.
- Workshops start promptly. We suggest logging in 5 minutes early to make sure your technology is working. Students who are more than 5 minutes late will not be admitted.
- For attendance, we will notify professors after students successfully attend the workshop and complete the assignment.
- We strongly encourage you to use a laptop or desktop computer to take the workshop. Completing the workshop assignment on a phone can be challenging.
- Questions? Call the Reference Desk at (661) 395-4466.
Workshop Topics
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Learn the basics of academic integrity and discover constructive shortcuts in education to use instead of resorting to plagiarism! Includes a primer on recent trends in artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.
- Evaluating Articles
- How to use the DAPPR Test Rubric for Evaluating Sources, focusing on resources and where to find information to evaluate articles from periodicals (newspapers, journals, and magazines).
- Evaluating News Sources
- An in-depth look at how to evaluate news sources for college-level research. Journalistic standards, misinformation, bias, and propaganda in the news will be examined.
- Finding Books and Ebooks
- The basics of effectively searching for print books and ebooks and an overview of the features of the library catalog.
- Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
- An overview of EBSCO Academic Search Complete, including search techniques for locating and using scholarly articles.
- Introduction to Evaluating Sources
- Learn 3 investigation techniques to help you learn the basics of evaluating sources you find in your research, and lock in your new knowledge with hands-on exercises.
- Research Strategies
- Tips for developing a research topic, subject and keyword searching, and search techniques.
- Sources 101
- An overview of the different types of sources appropriate for college-level research. The information timeline, the difference between popular and scholarly sources, the peer-review process, and an examination of when each type of source can be relevant and trustworthy will be covered.