New Student Meet-ups Spring 2013

We are offering a variety of meet-up opportunities for new students to socialize and to discuss topics related to their academic work. There will be two or three peer mentors at each meeting to help facilitate and answer questions. See details below.

Meet-ups have concluded for the Spring 2013 semester. Links to recordings are available below.

Past Workshops

Google Tools: All the cool features to help you in academics and beyond!
Monday, January 14; 7:00 - 8:00 pm PST

We love Google! Join us as we look at some of the awesome features Google has that will not only help you while you go through school, but well beyond the walls of academia! Learn about Google Scholar (and some super helpful tricks of the trade to get you the information you need), Gmail, calendar, hangouts, drive and more!

Peer mentors conducting this session: Courtney Dunham, Becky Rech, Heather Andrews

Listen to the recording. (Use the current SLIS Restricted Materials login to access the page.)

Writing Your Research Paper
Friday, January 18; 6:30-7:30 pm PST

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” --Gene Fowler
 
Do you agree with Gene Fowler? It doesn’t have to be that way. Join us for  a step-by-step plan to writing a successful research paper. We will discuss finding resources, annotated bibliographies, note-taking, ALA writing style, outlining, editing tips, and more. Feel confident in the writing process before you begin those first research papers for your core classes.

Peer mentors conducting this session: Beth Atlas, Robin Markel, and Nadia Abdullah.

Listen to the recording. (Use the current SLIS Restricted Materials login to access the page.)

Tools Anyone?
Sunday, January 20; 6:00 - 7:00 pm PST

Web 2.0 Tools: Come learn about some fun tools that have helped us on our way to earning our MLIS degrees. Library Thing,Glogster, Animoto, XTranormal, Blogger or Calibre, Jing, and Sliderocket. We hope to see you there!

Peer mentors conducting this session: Judy Stencel, Linda Frankel, Jade Torres-Morission.

Listen to the recording. (Use the current SLIS Restricted Materials login to access the page.)

Internships: A springboard to your career
Monday, January 21; 6:00 - 7:00 pm PST

Join us and learn about internships--what are they, why are they important, how to find them, where to have them (virtual and on-site). Plus get insights from the SLIS virtual internship supervisor.

Peer mentors conducting this session: Amelia Vaughan, Jeff McGowan.

Listen to the recording. (Use the current SLIS Restricted Materials login to access the page.)

See also the Fall 2012 Meet-up Listing.