Rural Sociology Subject Guide--New!

Steenbock liaison to the Department of Rural Sociology, Beverly Phillips, has contributed a new online guide to the library’s host of subject guides that organize and recommend online resources of interest to respective disciplines.

Given the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of research within Rural Sociology, Beverly has crafted the online guide to point users to sources for articles, books, statistics and Web documents within such categories as agrofood systems, environment, community/population and international issues, and historical resources.

Rural Sociology Subject Guide

This Time It's Personal: Customizing Your Library Research (Workshop, February 22)

Save time and manage your information efficiently! This free library workshop will discuss library personalization tools such as Custom Search (E-Resource Gateway), RSS feeds and alerting services, and RefWorks.

After a brief presentation, workshop participants will have time to begin a hands-on exploration of those topics that interest them most.

This Time It's Personal: Customizing Your Library Research
Thursday, February 22 (3:00-4:00PM)

No registration is necessary in order to attend and all workshops are free to students, faculty and staff. Check Steenbock's entrance sign for room location.

Find a Laptop!

Use the UW InfoLabs’ Laptop Checkout page to determine where you can find an available laptop (or other equipment such as cameras and projectors).
The page shows InfoLab locations and how many pieces of equipment remain available, in real-time, at each location. Laptop policies and due-dates can also be viewed on the site.

Site URL: http://laptop.library.wisc.edu/

ArcView GIS Workshop (February 21)

This introductory GIS workshop is designed to teach users how to construct a customized thematic map displaying demographic statistics from the U.S. Census. The workshop includes an overview of GIS concepts and practices along with an explanation of TIGER/Line boundary files and census population data--accompanied by hands-on experience with ArcView 9 software.

Arcview GIS: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
February 21 (2:00-4:00pm)
Instructor: Jaime Stoltenberg, Map & GIS Librarian, Robinson Map Library

No registration is necessary in order to attend and all workshops are free to students, faculty and staff. Check Steenbock's entrance sign for room location.

ScienceXpress: Publication ahead of Print

Science Express provides access, online, to selected Science articles in advance of the print edition.

The editors at Science select these articles from among all fields of science with the primary consideration being the timeliness and importance of that research. While some editorial changes may appear once the print edition is released, these selected articles are considered “published” when posted online (PDF) and can be cited from that date.

Access to Science Express accompanies the libraries’ full-text subscription to Science. See: http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.dtl

RefWorks in a Nutshell (Workshop, February 14)

Organize and manage your research with RefWorks. RefWorks is a software application, supported by UW-Madison Libraries, that enables you to create and to manage a personal database of research information. This drop-in workshop will address the basic features of the RefWorks product including organizing records, importing records from MadCat and journal databases and preparing bibliographies.

RefWorks in a Nutshell
Wednesday, February 14 (noon-1:30)

No registration is necessary in order to attend and all workshops are free to students, faculty and staff. Check Steenbock's entrance sign for room location.

RSS Feeds and Email Alerting Services (Workshop, February 13)

Save time by learning easy ways to stay current with the news, trends, and research literature in your field of study. This hands-on workshop will help you locate RSS feeds and activate self-service email alerts from your preferred databases and Websites.

Keeping up with the Research Literature: RSS Feeds and Email Alerts
Tuesday, February 13 (3:30-5:00PM)

This free, drop-in workshop does not require registration in order to attend.
Check sign near Steenbock library's entrance for room location.

Using My Webspace

Need a handy place to store your work or share that work with collaborators? If so, then consider making use of My Webspace—a DoIt-supported, Web-accessible, file storage application to which all students and staff have NetId access.

MyWebspace supplies 200 megabytes of disk space where you can store copies of important files and access them online from anywhere you have a Web connection. In addition to storing files, you can also use this space to publish a Web page.

Feature include: File Storage, Web Publishing (using a web content folder) and File Sharing.

To enable your account, visit My WebSpace and log in using your NetID and password.

For more information, see: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/mywebspace/