Choosing a Topic helps students select and refine a research topic for their papers or presentations. UNIV 20T, UNIV 1 and SPCH 3. 2. Books and Articles introduces students to the Library's online catalogue, presents an overview of periodical literature and focuses on one of our more popular databases such as the Expanded Academic Index . This workshop is also available on the Web. Searching the Web covers the structure of the World Wide Web and suggests strategies searchers can use to find information.
Students also learn how to save files to a disk, and to send files using E-mail.
Connections provides the basic computer use skills for doing library research. Students learn how to format a disk, save, copy and delete files, and understand some of the basic features of Windows 95 . Students practice by searching one of the Library databases and saving their results to a disk. Additionally, the workshop covers the very basic campus E-mail commands, including composing, sending, reading, and deleting messages. Students practice searching one of the Library databases and sending their results via E-mail.