Figuring out the best way to keep everything organized and set up a system for yourself can be frustrating, and figuring out the right tools to use can be overwhelming. Come to get ideas on how to manage your own process, and set up your own research workflow.

In this whirlwind show & tell, we will recommend the best research tools for use in your academic life. We'll look at apps for productivity, advanced searching techniques, note-taking extensions, presentations, and more. Some tools we'll cover include: Evernote, RSS feeds, Dropbox, Haiku Deck. This workshop is for the novice user as well as those well versed in research. Come to find a new favorite tool to aid in your research!

Discuss ways to think about your POP from a history perspective, and strategies for finding appropriate articles. The second half of the session will provide an intro to the annotated bibliography.

Sometimes you just get stuck in your literature searching. You've used countless keywords, tried multiple databases, put together more search strings than you can count, and you still can't find just quite what you need. This workshop will introduce you to some more advanced tips and tricks to help take your research to the next level.

Stay up to date in your research by setting up RSS feeds and email alerts. These tools will automatically send information to you on a regular basis, so you do not have to conduct the same search every few days or weeks to make sure you’re not missing new information. Save time and never miss out on new research again!

Similar to RefWorks, EndNote offers the capability to save and organize your citations. This demo will show you how it works.

This session will help you conceptualize your POP from a sociological perspective and generate search strategies for finding information. The second half of the session will have time for Q&A on this topic, and on the annotated bibliographies.

Organize your references, create bibliographies, and easy insert in-text citations into your papers with RefWorks. This guided session will take you through the basics of adding, organizing, and using your references.

If you've been using RefWorks for awhile, you may want to do a little more than just adding and organizing your references. Refworks has many tools to help make your research process go a bit more smoothly. Attend this session to learn some of the more advanced features within RefWorks.

Conceptualize your POP from an anthropological perspective and generate search strategies for finding information through this lens. We will also help distinguish between sociological and anthropological perspectives, and brainstorm ways to create strategies and shift thinking.

RefWorks offers you a place to store references to articles, books, book chapters, and other items you want to cite in your papers, projects, and research work. Our RefWorks Guide provides some assistance with the program. RefWorks lets you:

• Organize your references
• Store full text documents in your RefWorks account or use FindIt to easily navigate to documents
• Create bibliographies
• Pull references into your Word documents

Similar to RefWorks, EndNote offers the capability to save and organize your citations. This demo will show you how it works.

Sometimes you just have the urge to do your research and Google. It’s so easy to use! But you've probably found that when it comes to scholarly research, Google doesn't always have everything you need. In this workshop, learn about when and how to use Google effectively, to power your research.

Some strategies are universal across all presentation programs, and types of presentations. If you're looking to brush up on your presentation skills or are presenting for the first time, join us in this interactive session on presentation best practices.

Are you ever unsure whether the information you have is good, or if it's even appropriate for your assignment? Join us to learn what to consider when evaluating a source, no matter where you found it. You will evaluate a source using a guided critical thinking process, and create your own evaluation system for critiquing new information.

Infographics are a fun, visually stimulating way to share information. Get an introduction to infographics, and start the process of planning your own infographic. Later, join in to Part 2 to learn how to use a free web-based tool to create your own infographic. It's recommended (but not required) that you come prepared with an idea for something you want to turn into an infographic.

This step-by-step workshop will guide you in creating a basic infographic in Piktochart, a free web-based application. It is strongly recommended that you attend or view the recording of Intro to Infographics Part 1 before attending this session, and that you come prepared with an idea for something you want to turn into an infographic.