Researching Articles for Social Sciences

Target Audience: SMU Community

Dates:

Mon, 23 Feb     [11:00 am – 12:00 pm]

Wed, 25 Feb     [12:00 pm – 1:00 pm]

Thur, 26 Feb     [4:00 am – 5:00 pm]
Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5

Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

SMU PYXIS Article search allows you to search multiple databases at one time. Attend this class to learn how to use our new federated search engine and save time while looking for articles for your assignments and research.

Researching Articles for Information Systems

Target Audience: SMU Community

Dates:

Mon, 23 Feb     [1:00 pm – 2:00 pm]

Wed, 25 Feb     [4:00 pm – 5:00 pm]

Thur, 26 Feb     [12:00 am – 1:00 pm]
Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5

Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

SMU PYXIS Article search allows you to search multiple databases at one time. Attend this class to learn how to use our new federated search engine and save time while looking for articles for your assignments and research.

Researching Articles for Economics

Target Audience: SMU Community

Dates:

Mon, 23 Feb     [12:00 pm – 1:00 pm]

Mon, 25 Feb     [1:00 pm – 2:00 pm]

Mon, 26 Feb     [11:00 am – 12:00 pm]
Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5

Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

SMU PYXIS Article search allows you to search multiple databases at one time. Attend this class to learn how to use our new federated search engine and save time while looking for articles for your assignments and research.

Researching Articles for Business

Target Audience: SMU Community

Dates:

Mon, 23 Feb     [4:00 pm – 5:00 pm]

Mon, 25 Feb     [11:00 am – 12:00 pm]

Mon, 26 Feb     [1:00 pm – 2:00 pm]
Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5

Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

SMU PYXIS Article search allows you to search multiple databases at one time. Attend this class to learn how to use our new federated search engine and save time while looking for articles for your assignments and research.

World Café on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Lien Centre & Facilitators Network Singapore present a Social Conversation on:

World Café on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Date: 28th January 2009
Time: 3.30-6pm
Venue: 5th floor Reading Room, Li Ka Shing Library, 70 Stamford Road, SMU (location map available here)

What is World Café?

As a conversational process , the World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community.

CSR

CSR is the firm’s practices and policies that contribute to the well-being of the environment, economy and society. They address the needs of customers, suppliers, shareholders and employees, as well as those of government, the general public and the communities where the firm operates, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Synopsis

Join us as we create a participant-driven conversation around 3 central questions:

 

• What does the Asian version of CSR look like?
• How can groups outside the corporate sector move the CSR space forward?

• Where will the next transformation of CSR take place?

 

Facilitator

Janice Lua, Co-Founder, Facilitators Network Singapore & IAF Certified Professional Facilitator

FNS (www.fns.sg) was founded in 2004 with the mission of promoting and supporting the art and practice of professional facilitation through methods exchange, collegial networking and support services. FNS is affiliated with International Association of Facilitators (www.iaf-world.org), and also organises regular learning and development activities for facilitators in Singapore and the region.

For registration:

Open to businesses, organizations and individuals interested in idea generation and discussion to move the social space forward.

Please register by Thursday, 22 January 2009.

For more information:

Jared Tham
Tel: 6828 1977
E-mail: jaredtham@smu.edu.sg

About Social Conversations:

Social Conversations provides a platform for thought leaders and practitioners in the social space to share their work and to engage in a conversation with the community on ideas and innovations to enable positive social change in Singapore and beyond.

EndNoteX1 Training

Attention all students!

• Do you need help in organising your bibliographies?
• Are you interested in keeping all your references (plus the full text ) in a single file?
• Would you like to know how to instantly create your bibliographies in MS Word?

If yes, sign up for one of our EndNote Training classes!

What is Endnote?

Endnote is a bibliographic software that allows you to organise references, files, images and PDFs into a personalised library and creates instant bibliographies in Microsoft Word from searches you perform on the internet. It will save you time when doing your bibliographies and references.

Learn how to:

• install EndNote to your computer
• create your own reference library
• enter record details into the library
• manage and organize your references in one single file
• insert citations from EndNote to MS Word

Sign up here

Training for Intl Exchange Students (Spring)

Target Audience: International Exchange Students Only

Dates:

Mon, 5th Jan – Fri, 16th Jan  [5:00 pm – 6:00 pm]

Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5
Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

How Do I Achieve Academic Success in SMU?

In this compulsory 1-hour hands-on training course, you will learn to navigate SMU PYXIS, our Digital Library. You will use the online catalogue, find course reserve materials assigned by your professor, search for e-journals and retrieve articles using online databases. Loan privileges and other services offered by the library for your benefit will also be covered.

By the end of this training, you will discover scholarly resources in the library other than Google so as to complete your research projects and assignments while in SMU and be competitive with the local students who have already been trained to your our resources.

We will offer additional courses in your subject areas in February. 

Maximum class size is 25 so places are limited.

This workshop is COMPULSORY for ALL INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE (SPRING) students.

SMU PYXIS Digital Library Training (Part 1)

Target Audience: SMU Community

Dates:

Mon, 5 Jan – Fri, 30 Jan    [1:00 pm – 2:00 pm]

Mon, 19 Jan – Fri, 23 Jan    [5:00 pm – 6:00 pm]

Venue: Library Training Room, Level 5

Registration: http://library.smu.edu.sg/calendar/default.asp

Uncover, Discover, Experience and Explore SMU PYXIS   [pronounced PIK-SIS].  

 

You may have been to orientation and sat through other more advanced library training classes. But while you were away on break, we have rolled out our Digital Library, SMU PYXIS so we have designed new courses to introduce you to the new interfaces. You will discover new features such as searching for your course readings using the eCourse Reserves, using our Web 2.0-enabled online catalogue, and personalizing your library experience using “My Library Account”.  We will also give you a sneak peek of our ”federated search engine” where you can search multiple databases at one time. We will offer in-depth classes on searching across databases in your subject fields in February.

 

By the end of these sessions you will be able to navigate our Sea of Learning using SMU PYXIS for your research needs and achieve academic success in SMU.  

We strongly recommend you attend any of the sessions scheduled in January.

Maximum class size is 25 so places are limited.  

Digital Library Soft Launch Celebration – 12 Dec 2008