Library Classes: Open Workshops

Library Classes : Open Workshops

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Open workshops welcome all members in the university community to attend. These are the workshops the Library organizes:

Classification of Materials in the Library: This class explains essential elements of a classification number, how they are created and assigned, and how library materials are organized and shelved.
Evaluating and Citing Web Resources for Research: This class teaches evaluation criteria, distinguishing hoaxes and lies, and how to cite Web resources in academic papers.
Legal Information: This workshop, conducted in 2 parts, introduces a variety of printed and electronic legal resources. Session 1 covers Hong Kong SAR and China. Session 2 covers the United Kingdom and the United States.
LexisNexis Academic & WiseNews: LexisNexis Academic and WiseNews are two primary full-text news databases. LexisNexis Academic contains over 6,000 international English language sources while WiseNews specializes in Chinese language newspapers published in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Macau. This workshop demonstrates effective searching of the databases with hands-on exercises.
Microforms: This hands-on workshop teaches users how to get from a citation to a microform printout or scan.
News and Business Information on China: This workshop demonstrates ways to retrieve first-hand business and statistical information on China.
ProQuest & EBSCOhost Research Databases: This hands-on provides participants ample opportunities to learn and practice effective searching of these two popular databases.
RefWorks: RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool. This workshop teaches you how to organize your personal citation database, import references from different subject databases, create in-text references and format a bibliography or reference list in various citation styles.
Resources for Job Hunting: Jointly offered by the Career Center and the Library, this workshop introduces the job hunting process and related information resources.
Resources on Postgraduate Studies: This class leads particpants to useful resources on choosing a program (locally or overseas); language and admission tests (GMAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL, etc.); financing studies; and Graduate School survival tips.
Reuters 3000 Xtra: The class introduces this large and complex database, which covers stocks, warrants, options, futures and indices traded in 166 exchanges; 500,000 bonds; 175 currencies; and a vast range of economic indicators. It also provides current and historical investment data of up to 20 years, and company profiles with financial statements of the past 10-15 years; and more.
Students learn to find and retrieve current and historical financial data; plot and download price line graphs; compare stocks' performances; and search for companies that meet certain criteria.
Searching Web Resources Efficiently - Quality Directories and Powerful Search Engines: The workshop introduces useful tips in searching selected subject directories and search engines to effectively and efficinetly search the Web's billions of pages.
Web of Science Citation Databases: This workshop teaches you to search the abstracts of articles in 7,600+ international journals; find articles that cite a particular author or work; trace the number of times that an article has been cited; create citation alerts; rank your search results by different criteria; and more.

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