Want to Learn How to Use the Library Better? Attend a Library Workshop!

Library workshops provides an opportunity to learn how to conduct library and information research.  These are skills that can help you in your college classes, and support you in your personal life as independent and life-long learners.  

If requested by your teacher, extra credit slips are available.  

These 60 minute extra-credit workshops, held in the library's lecture room, will teach library and information research skills using print and electronic resources.  Some of the information covered includes:

• an introduction to the library's services and resources 
• identifying and accessing the various library and information resources
• identifying scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals
• searching discipline-specific and advanced electronic resources
• researching on the web
• evaluating search results for credible resources
• citing sources in either MLA or APA styles; and to understand how the proper use and citation of library and information resources helps avoid plagiarism.

Upcoming Workshops for Fall 2019

November

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 11 a.m. – Noon
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 11 a.m. – Noon

December

Monday, Dec. 2, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Interested in attending? No RSVP is necessary.  You can just show up at the time of the workshop.

For information on these workshops, contact Erin Gratz at egratz@occ.cccd.edu or the librarian's Reference Desk during the library's open hours at (714) 432-5900.