Do you dread public speaking? Tomorrow’s Library Workshop on “Polishing Your Presentation” may be the first step in overcoming that fear and improving your presentation skills for that upcoming thesis defense.

Polishing Your Presentation
Learn the essential components of public speaking: content preparation, verbal and non-verbal performance as well as ways to manage anxiety. A good presentation is a strong communication tool; discover the skills you need to enhance your personal performance.

Thursday, April 19 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Koerner Library : Room 216 (show me a map)
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Part of the Graduate Student Workshop Series.

A reminder about the upcoming library workshop on RefWorks this Thursday:

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool, sponsored by the UBC Library, and available free-of-charge to current UBC faculty, staff, and students.

In this hands-on workshop you will create your own personal database in RefWorks, learn how to add references, and use these references when writing a paper, automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliography in the citation style of your choice.

We’ll focus on indexes, databases, and citation styles used by scholars in the Arts.

WHERE and WHEN?
Thursday, March 22 2007 from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Koerner Library : Room 217 (show me a map)
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In November 2004, Google launched a new search tool, Google Scholar, which indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. In the Google Scholar and More! workshop this Friday, you’ll learn about Google Scholar and other tools for scholarly searching – whether you’re starting with a bibliography, an author’s name, a topic, or just an idea.

The session is on Friday, Feb 9 from 12-1 pm in the Buchanan building, room B114 (show me a map)

This is part of the Arts Outreach program, sponsored by UBC Library, and supported in part by funding from the office of the Dean of Arts.

Tomorrow at the Library: Writing a Literature Review
Wednesday, Feb 7 from 12:15-1:15pm at Koerner Library

For students in all disciplines, not just English literature! Theses and dissertations in many subject areas – including anthropology – begin with a review of what research has been done in the area. Learn the established conventions and patterns that your lit review will follow.

The workshop will be taught by Ramona Montagnes, the Director of UBC’s Writing Centre since 1992.

This is part of the Graduate Student Workshop series.

Tomorrow at the Library: Changes in Scholarly Publishing and the Open Access Movement
Friday, Feb 2nd from 12-1pm at Koerner Library.

The scholarly communication system is going through a process of change across the world. Driven by the escalating costs of journal publication, a revolution in authoring and publishing as a result of new technologies, and a feeling that existing models restrict rather than encourage a free flow of information, scholars are re-evaluating the traditional scholarly publishing process in favour of a freer, open access model. This session will describe the building momentum for change in scholarly communication and how it is expressing itself in the Open Access Movement.

For a list of anthropology journals that have adopted the Open Access publishing model, please see the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) list of anthropology journals. Titles include Anthropoetics: the journal of generative anthropology, Cultural Analysis, and Oral Traditon, to name a very few.