10 Ways to Improve Any Academic Writing Project
Join LUC Libraries and the Writing Center for an interactive, 30-minute workshop covering 10 tips you can use this semester! The workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 2nd at 3:00 in room 120 of the Information Commons. Send questions to Jane Currie (jcurrie@luc.edu).
RefWorks Workshops at the WTC
Join us for a workshop on RefWorks, a program that allows you to collect, store, and organize citations from books, articles, web sites and other sources. Once citations have been collected, it can automatically convert citations into properly formatted bibliographies. A multitude of citation styles are offered including MLA, APA and Chicago Style. Students, faculty, […]
Workshop: Citation Management with Zotero
Zotero is an extension for the Firefox browser that allows you to collect and manage citation information and digital files that you discover in your research. You can use Zotero to keep track of important sources, add tags, notes, and annotations, and output bibliographies and footnotes for your papers and projects. This session will teach […]
Google Scholar: Using Google Effectively for Research
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature essential to your academic research. From the familiar Google interface, you may restrict your search to find only scholarly materials across all disciplines. Google Scholar identifies a wide variety of academic resources across all disciplines: articles, books, abstracts, news sources, and other specialized […]
Meet the Staff: Jennifer Jacobs
Title of your position: Interlibrary Loan Librarian What is your educational background? I have a B.A. in art history from Columbia University and a M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois. What do you like about working in libraries? I learn something new every day. Did you know that there are people trying […]
Discover the past and present of Ash Wednesday (and about 15,000 other topics)
Religion Past and Present, a new and significant scholarly reference work from Brill, is being added to the Cudahy Library Reference Collection. Volumes I through VI are in the collection now; another four will be added as they become available. This is the first ever translation of Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, now in its […]