Research Skills for Undergraduates – Fall 2020

The Humanities and Social Sciences Library is pleased to continue offering our Research Skills for Undergraduates workshop series online this fall. Previously referred to as Keys to Success, this 1.5 hour workshop is a great opportunity for students to learn the skills needed to find and identify scholarly research and take their papers to the next level!

Content in this workshop includes:

  • Getting started with your research
  • Finding articles, books, and other library resources for your projects
  • Evaluating resources
  • Using citation styles and management tools

This workshop is part of the SKILLS21 program by Teaching and Learning Services and counts toward students’ co-curricular record.

Sessions for Fall 2020 are listed below, all workshops are in Eastern time.

  • Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 at 1:30pm
  • Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 at 10:00am
  • Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 at 10:00am

To register for a workshop, visit: https://apps.library.mcgill.ca/workshops-and-tours/view-by-workshop/3373

Students from all faculties and graduate students are welcome to register.

Upcoming workshops at HSSL – December 2017

We’re heading into the last month of the semester, but there are still workshops happening!

Here’s a list of what’s planned. Space is limited so make sure you click through and register today!

Wednesday, December 6
14:00 Getting Started with 3D printing

Thursday, December 7
16:00 Endnote Essentials
17:30 Student Journal Publishing

Wednesday, December 13
18:00 Wikipedia & Québec’s LGBTQ+ Community

Upcoming workshops at HSSL – November 2017

The last set of workshops for the Fall 2017 semester are happening in November!

Here’s a list of what’s planned. Space is limited so make sure you click through and register today!

Tuesday, November 7
10:30 Introduction to Numeric Data Cleaning Using R (registration closed – already full!)
11:00 Black, White, and Re(a)d: How to Tell Real News From Malarkey
15:00 EndNote Essentials

Wednesday, November 8
13:00 Introduction to Zotero

Thursday, November 9
10:30 Introduction to Numeric Data Cleaning Using SPSS (registration closed – already full!)

Thursday, November 16
10:30 Tell Your Own Story: Building a Professional and Scholarly Identity Online
16:00 EndNote Essentials

Monday, November 20
10:00 Introduction to Zotero