Location: All Summer 2008 sessions held at Frost Library Lab (Glendon Campus). 

Summer 2008

Making Information Come to You: The Power of RSS Feeds

Rajiv Nariani

Tue. May 27th, 2008, 10-11.30 am

RSS feeds are an invaluable tool for researchers who are trying to keep up with developments in a particular field. Subscribing to RSS feeds saves time since it pulls relevant information into one location. In this session we will learn to set up RSS feeds from individual scholarly journals as well as from searches conducted in a database.

Google Unleashed

Adam Taves

TBA

Did you know that there are many specialized tools and advanced features built into Google that can make your searching more effective?  This session will explore the advanced features of Google Search as well as some specialized tools such as Book Search.   We will also discuss the merits and limitations of Google Scholar, in addition to looking at easy ways to link into York Libraries’ online holdings from items found in Google Scholar.  Workshop website

Picturing the Web: Searching and Using Images from the Internet

Mark Robertson & Mary Kandiuk

TBA

It has often been argued that the Internet is a visual medium, but the visual potential of the Web is only starting to emerge with popular and powerful tools like Google Image Search and Flickr.  We will be looking at the various uses of visual information and illustrative material in different disciplines (science, social sciences, history, fine art), and discussing the pros and cons of free, commercial and archival image banks.  Workshop website