Would you like your library account to keep track of items you borrow? If you answered ‘yes’, you’ll need to opt-in to the My Reading History feature. To do so, simply login to your Library Account and click on My Reading History, then Opt In. From that point onward, whenever you borrow a book or [...]
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Opt in to My Reading History
Posted in Library News, tagged How To on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Booking Group Study rooms in the Library
Posted in Carleton News, How To, tagged How To on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Learning Support Services has introduced new software for booking group study rooms located the 4th floor of the library. Students will now have the convenience of reserving any of the 9 group study spaces through MySuccess (online schedule on Carleton Central). If you need them, dry erase markers can be borrowed for using on the [...]
Are you using RefWorks?
Posted in How To, tagged How To, Reference on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
RefWorks is a web-based tool that lets you create, manage, and format bibliographies and papers. It helps you keep organized and saves you time! It can easily create bibliographies in a wide variety of styles (such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) It can also format in-text citations. It’s great collaborative tool that allows students and [...]
Say goodbye to photocopying…start scanning
Posted in Library News, tagged How To on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A new service is being offered by the Library Copy Shop (Room 150) which allows you to scan books! Graphic Services recently installed a scanner that scans book pages directly into PDF files on a USB stick. Cost is 10 cents per scan, and you can fit two 8.5×11 pages per scan, so it’s cheaper [...]
Scan books @ the Library
Posted in Library News, tagged How To on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A new service is being offered by the Library Copy Shop (Room 150) which allows you to scan books! Graphic Services recently installed a scanner that scans book pages directly into PDF files on a USB stick. Cost is $0.10 per scan, and you can fit two 8.5×11 pages per scan, so it’s cheaper than [...]
E-mail or text for ‘quiet’
Posted in Library News, tagged How To on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Library is launching a new service to help students get a little quiet. Now you can let us know about issues that may prevent you from studying effectively, and you can do so from wherever you are in the library. Alert us by text or email to quiet@library.carleton.ca, and we will send someone to [...]
What is RefWorks?
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, How To, tagged How To on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RefWorks is a web-based tool that lets you create, manage, and format bibliographies and papers. It can easily create bibliographies in a wide variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) It can also format in-text citations. It’s great collaborative tool that allows students and researchers to create and share reading lists of references and annotations. [...]
Copyright Seminar on Nov. 23rd – Register today!
Posted in Carleton News, How To, tagged How To on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The EDC is hosting an Intellectual Property and Copyright Seminar. The seminar is presented by the University Copyright Committee, in association with the Educational Development Centre, on Monday, November 23 at 10:30 am in Room 422 Dunton Tower. The session, including time for a question and answer period, will be led by Ross Mutton; Terry [...]
RefWorks Updates
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, How To, Library Events, tagged How To on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is now possible to retain search strategies by naming and saving a strategy when conducting an Advanced Search. Strategies are stored under View — Search Strategy Results. Want RefWorks on your cell phone or PDA (personal digital assistant)? RefMobile allows you to access and view your references, manage folders, and even add notes from [...]
Cited Reference Searching
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, How To, tagged How To on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cited Reference Searching on the database Web of Science allows you to find articles that cite a previously published article. It is a means of tracing a particular research forward in time. You can also think of this as “following a citation trail” through time to see how works grow and develop in a focused [...]
