Summon (Serial Solutions/ProQuest) demonstration

Summon demonstration
Wednesday June 22nd
3.30pm
North Training Room
For Library staff

Representatives from Serials Solutions and its sister company, Proquest, will provide a demo of Summon on Wednesday June 22nd at 3.30pm in the North Training Room.

Summon is one of the 'next' generation' resource discovery tools currently on the market.
Summon is modelled on the Google-style approach of building, and then searching a unified index of available resources, instead of searching each database individually. Tools such as these provide unified indexes of the licensed scholarly publications combined with locally held content (like the catalogue).

These tools are the 'next generation' of the present metasearch tools, (e.g. Research Pro). They query the subscription databases and return a single set of results.

The demo provides an opportunity to learn about one vendors offering in this area and to investigate the technology behind the resource.

Contact Arlene for more information

ARTstor: Training course, 11 July 2011

Where: South Training Room, Berkeley Library
When: 11 July 2011, from 9.45am
Who: For all TCD Library and Academic staff with an interest in the area.
To book a place, please forward your name to Arlene Healy, arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend (see programme below).

ARTstor is a subscription based resource and access has been funded under the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) initiative for the past number of years. This training session will provide an opportunity for TCD members to explore how it can support teaching and research, and ensure its benefits are fully exploited.

Sian Evans, a trainer from ARTstor, is visiting Ireland in early July.

Sian will provide a training session in TCD Library for members of subscribing Irish institutions, on July 11th, in the South Training Room, Berkeley Library.

Programme:
(Booking: arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend. )

Registration - 9.45
1) 10.00-11.00 – Introduction to ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
11.00-11.30 – break
2) 11.30-13.00 – Teaching with ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
Lunch 13.00-14.00 (attendees to make own arrangements)
3) 14.00-15.00 – ARTstor for information professionals (Library staff)

ARTstor - an update and training session

Coming soon - Training day in TCD, July 11th, 2011, on ARTstor. More details later.


The ARTstor Digital Library

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research.

Its collections comprise contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world (read the full list here: http://www.artstor.org/collections).

The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more (find sample subject guides here: http://www.artstor.org/subjectguides).

As well as advanced searching, sorting, viewing and sharing options, ARTstor can also facilitate you to:

Organize
Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)

Organize images into groups
Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor

Download image groups for use in presentation software such as PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV)

Export citations for images or image groups into EndNote or a text file

Generate URL links to images and groups for integration with local course management software and sharing with students

Zephyr (Bureau van Dijk) training. Monday 7th March

Training session on Zephyr, provided by an expert trainer from Bureau van Dijk.
Date: Monday, March 7th 2011
Time: 11.30am - 1:00 pm
Venue: South Training Room, Berkeley Library Basement.

There will be time assigned during the session for participants’ questions.

The resource was purchased last year in response to demand from researchers in economics and finance. Usage of the resource is not as high as expected. given the comprehensive nature of the deal information which it contains and the relevance of this resource to research and teaching in TCD. Therefore, we arranged this training session, in conjunction with Bureau van Dijk, to raise awareness of the existence of this resource, among researchers and students.

If you wish to attend the session please e-mail, Cliona Ni Shuilleabain, Electronic Resources Librarian, cosullvn@tcd.ie.

New ProQuest platform - Training

The new ProQuest platform is due to be switched on in TCD in January.

Training for Library Staff,
Please reply if you wish to attend.

Date: Thursday, December 9th
Time: 10.00-11.30 (North TR) followed by 12.00-12.30 (South TR – hands-on).

Venue: North Training Room (10.00-11.30)– presentation by ProQuest trainer *see Training outline below
South Training Room (12noon onwards) for some hands on practice on the new Proquest platform, with the Proquest trainer.


*Training outline
ProQuest’s New Platform:

1 hour (10-11 am)
• Single search box, subject areas and product start pages
• Advanced search
• Search results – faceted search options, document preview and more
• Right tools at the right time – spell check, cite this, export and more
• Search and publication alerts - email and RSS

30+ minutes (11-11.30am)
• My Research
• Tagging and shared lists
• Questions?

30+ minutes (12.00-12.30pm)
Hand-on training using the pcs in the South Training Room

Anatomy TV (from Primal Pictures) - Training

Training: Anatomy TV (from Primal Pictures) - teaching tool

Trainer: resource developers, Primal Pictures

Date: Thursday, November 11^th

Time: 2:00pm

Venue: North Training Room

The session will be aimed at academic staff. If you could like to attend, please contact Arlene Healy

Description:

New Library subscription: Anatomy TV

This teaching tool provides medically accurate 3D models of the human anatomy. The representation of the body is derived from medical scan data that has been interpreted by a team of Primal anatomists and then translated into three-dimensional images by graphics specialists. The anatomy visuals are accompanied by 3D animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. The resource also provides clinical videos and text to supplement the core anatomy data.

You can access Anatomy TV from the New Resources section of the Library database webpage. There's also a “How To” guide .

TCD Library’s 12 month subscription provides access to the Anatomy Plus Platinum Package, including the Dentistry module, ensuring this valuable teaching tool benefits as many academic departments as possible.

We aim to assess usage levels and relevancy to TCD academic programmes prior to a renewal of the subscription in late 2011.

Knovel - Training

You are invited to attend a training session on Knovel, provided by the vendor.

If you would like to attend please contact Arlene to book a place.

Date: Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Time: 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue: North Training Room
Session suitable for: Any staff dealing with users and their reference queries

TCD Library began an annual subscription to Knovel, an e-book collection aimed at engineers and scientists, on October 1, 2009. The subscription provides full access to the 20 subject sections (over 1,800 titles) in the Knovel collection (excluding the Premium Content). In addition, TCD Library subscribed to both Transportation AND Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.

This is one of our largest aggregated collection of e-books serving the needs of staff and students and contains interesting value-added features.

The Knovel trainer will provide an introduction to the content coverage, how to browse, search and use the personalisation feature, My Knovel. Knovel enables users to extract data from the books for further analysis and the session will focus further on Knovel’s data analysis tools.

This database of e-books can be accessed from the Library's databases page at present. Records for the books will be uploaded into the catalogue in due course.

Web of Knowledge - Free training session

A reminder that there will be two training sessions tomorrow, 19th May 2009, on the Web of Knowledge. See here for details.
There are a few places remaining. Contact Clíona to book a place.

Web of Knowledge - Free training session

What: Web of Knowledge training session
Where: South Training Room, Berkeley Library.
When: Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Who: For all TCD Library and Academic staff and interested Postgraduates.

Guillaume Rivalle of Thomson Reuters will aim the sessions at both Library staff and academic staff /postgrads.

The schedule is as follows:

Morning Session
9.30am-12.30pm (30 min coffee break)
Topics: Web of Science, Derwent Innovation Index, Researcher ID, Journal Citation Report and Essential Science Indicators

Afternoon Session
2.00pm-5.00pm (30 min coffee break)
Topics: As morning session

The sessions are scheduled to allow those not interested in JCR and ESI to leave after the Researcher ID topic.

TCD Library has subscribed to Web of Science for a number of years. We have gained access more recently to additional research support tools and resources on the Web of Knowledge platform under our IReL subscription. The training session will allow attendees to understand and use these highly valuable research tools.

To book a place please forward your details to Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin at cosullvn@tcd.ie.

Please also note that attendees will need to follow the internal training event application procedure.

Web of Knowledge training - 19th May 2009 - Preliminary announcement

This is a preliminary announcement about a Web of Knowledge training session being planned for May 19th.

Guillaume Rivalle will be giving two training sessions on Tuesday, 19th May 2009 in the Library Training Rooms.

The details of each session are being finalised with the trainer, but it is envisaged that the morning will be a general session and the afternoon will be more specific.

The topics covered will be WoS, DII, Endnote Web, RID, JCR and ESI.

The sessions will be open to all interested parties and further details will be posted as soon as they are known.

Endnote training

EndNote is a bibliographic reference software that can help you to store, manage, organise and format bibliographic references for use in your research papers and publications. It enables the automatic creation and formatting of citations and bibliographies.

A number of 2-hour training sessions entitled, "A Beginners Guide to EndNote XI for PC" is scheduled. Places are allocated on a first-come basis and are limited to 18 participants per session. Participants are expected to have basic IT skills and knowledge of using Word and databases.

Location: South Training Room, Berkeley Basement, Berkeley Library.

A schedule of sessions is available here, at registration.

When registering, follow these steps.
1. Log in, or create a login if this is your first visit (please note, your tcd username and password is not valid on this site)
2. Choose from schedule which course you wish to attend.
3. Register and fill in all details.
4. Now reserve a place on the course.
5. If the reservation has been successful, you will receive a confirmation e-mail.
6. 1 day before the course you will be sent a reminder.

Trainers:
Jessica Eustace, (SFI Research Librarian); David MacNaughton, Subject Librarian (Sciences & Health Sciences); David Mockler (Medical Librarian);J ohn McManus (Collection Management); Lorna Flannery, Subject Librarian (Engineering & Computing, Maths & Statistics); Greg Sheaf, Subject Librarian (Nursing and Midwifery); Geraldine Fitzgerald, Subject Librarian ( Education); Sean Hughes, Subject Librarian (History); Christoph Schmidt-Supprian (Collection Management).

Should you wish to cancel a booking, please notify the Endnote Course Administrator, Jessica Eustace. Please provide a minimum of 24 hours notice to allow other to attend in your place.

CIG training

The CIG group now includes Proquest, CSA, Chadwyck Healey, COS, Factiva, Safari, and Serials Solutions products.

CIG run regular online presentation webinars on the full range of products and these are open to anyone to attend at no cost. These are run globally, largely from the US, but also 10 a month from the UK to cover a different range of time zones.

Training calendar of online webinars

FAME and AMADEUS database training

What: Training session on the company information databases, FAME and AMADEUS.
When: Wednesday 14th January 2009 at 9.30am. (1 hour duration)
Where: North Training Room, Berkeley Library, TCD.
Who: Trainer: member of provider company, Bureau van Dijk.

Open to members of Library staff, academics and other interested parties
Please contact Arlene if you wish to attend this session.

Details of databases:
FAME provides access to company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.4 million UK and Irish companies. It also provides summary information for a further 950,000 smaller businesses.

AMADEUS is a comprehensive, pan-European database containing financial information on 11 million public and private companies in 41 European countries. It combines data from over 30 specialist regional information providers (IPs).

Web of Knowledge. Training session on new interface

Thomson Scientific has launched a new interface to Web of Knowledge.
Rachel Mangan of Thomson Scientific will provide a training session on the new interface:

Time: 10.00-12.30
Date: September 20th, 2007
Venue: South Training Room.

We will be hosting this session on behalf of ourselves, DCU and UCD.
Rachel will supply updated quick reference guides on the day of the training session.
Please let Arlene know if you are able to attend the session.

We will continue to link to the old version for the moment.

On the current interface you can click on a preview of the new version. Click here to learn more.

New LibSDC training blog

Wearing my hat as a member of the LibSDC, I've set up a blog to display the training courses and training bodies most relevant to the Library Staff in general. A member of the LibSDC compiles the list, and another will post to the blog on a monthly basis. Individual courses which people wish to advertise as they come up may also be added to the blog. Please send the details to me or John Cremin