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Basic Library Skills
Classes in this subject area:
After Class Practice on E-Resources New to You [check scheduled dates]
Description: Bring your questions about searching electronic resources at SIBL. This is an opportunity for hands-on practice with a librarian for research assistance.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Prerequisite: This class requires some basic mouse and keyboard skills.
Articles: Finding Them Electronically [check scheduled dates]
Description: Hands-on instruction covering the use of electronic indexes to find articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Prerequisite: This class requires some basic mouse and keyboard skills.
Business Research: Databases from Home thru NYPL [check scheduled dates]
Description: Did you know about two great business databases with special content that is available with your Library Card from the NYPL website? Use them to keep current, explore new industries and careers, and prepare for interviews. Content includes specialized trade & business journals, articles on trends and company news, company profiles, industry surveys & snapshots, market research in Datamonitor Reports and articles, investment analyst reports, company financials, rankings, and more! Class will highlight searching, and unique features.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
CANCELLED!! Virtual Newsstand [check scheduled dates]
Description: This class has been cancelled. It will be offered again on January 24 at 2:15 p.m.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
CANCELLED!!! Investigating New York City Architecture! [check scheduled dates]
Description: This class will be offered again on January 31 at 3:15 p.m.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
CANCELLED!!! Preservation 101 [check scheduled dates]
Description: Preservation 101 has been cancelled.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Directories: Using Them to Find Companies and People [check scheduled dates]
Description: Hands-on training in the use of electronic directories. Also covers tips for compiling mailing lists.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Prerequisite: This class requires some basic mouse and keyboard skills.
Discovering Primary Sources at NYPL [check scheduled dates]
Description: Primary sources provide a researcher with firsthand evidence of historical events from the perspective of someone who was there. This class will provide an overview of how to proceed through the research process using primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. We will learn how to locate primary sources both here at NYPL and on the web.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Prerequisite: Participation in all classes assumes a basic level of computer skill and experience.
Finding Books, Journals, and more [check scheduled dates]
Description: This class covers the basics of searching the research libraries catalog, CATNYP and the circulating online catalog, LEO. Provides hands-on instruction.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Prerequisite: Attendees should be comfortable using a keyboard and mouse.
Free News & Journals from Home via 15+ EBSCO Databases [check scheduled dates]
Description: Spotlight on...Free News & Journals From Home via 15+ EBSCOhost Databases: An introduction on searching more than 15 full-text news and journal databases, available from your Home or Office via the Internet with an NYPL Library Card. Class will explore special features and the array of subject areas and publications.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
NYPL's New Catalog: Features & Searching [check scheduled dates]
Description: NYPL's new catalog combines the LEO and CATNYP catalogs into one catalog to search for books, DVD's, journal titles, government publications, and other resources. This class will take you on a tour of the new catalog's features, and hands-on searching to explore strategies to help you find the library materials you need.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Research 101: The Basics [check scheduled dates]
Description: Learn the ins and outs of effective research at The New York Public Library. You'll find out how to use and interpret CATNYP, the online catalog of NYPL's Research Libraries, as well as how to search a variety of electronic databases in order to locate relevant journal articles and other types of information. The class covers skills and strategies that will enable you to find the information you need.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Research 102: Getting the Most Out of Online Databases [check scheduled dates]
Description: In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn hidden CATNYP tricks, such as how to limit and export your searches. You’ll also be assisted in exploring several of the more than 300 databases to which the Library subscribes. You’ll learn how to search with greater precision, and you’ll discover the astonishing range of information available.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Prerequisite: Participation in all classes assumes a basic level of computer skill and experience.
Resume Lab: Assistance with Creating, Formatting, Saving, Printing & Uploading [check scheduled dates]
Description: Bring a written draft of your resume, and a USB drive for saving and printing, and get started! This is a supervised lab for you to create, and save, your resume in Microsoft Word. Assistance with resume formatting, proofreading, saving, printing and uploading resumes will be available during the lab. Please note: You will be typing your own resume; This is not an instructor taught class, or a career advisement session; This session is first come, first served for the first 15 people who sign up in person on the day of the class; To find a Resume Lab with pre-registration, check the NYPL events calendar for other locations @ http://www.nypl.org/calendar
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: Basic mouse & keyboard skills and basic knowledge of MS-Word.
Science Journals & News from Home via NYPL Science Databases [check scheduled dates]
Description: Interested in current science and technology research – beyond the Internet and daily newspapers? Did you know you have access to thousands of articles published in over a thousand science and technology journals from your own Home computer with your NYPL library card? This class is an introduction to finding science and technology news and journals using NYPL databases that you connect to from your Home computer with your library card. Class will explore special features and the array of subject areas and publications. You can read current research on new energy sources, the environment, health, computer technologies, biology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, engineering, and much more!
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library
Uncovering Your Roots: An Introduction to Genealogy Research [check scheduled dates]
Description: The Library boasts one of the country’s largest free public collections of genealogical tools. This introductory class will show you some of the key resources available. With the skills learned here, perhaps you’ll find the name of an ancestor on a passenger list from a ship that sailed into New York Harbor in the nineteenth century. Your search of historical census records may reveal the names of family members. You will acquire the knowledge to begin an engrossing lifelong project of research and exploration.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Prerequisite: Participation in all classes assumes a basic level of computer skill and experience.
Virtual Newsstand: America's Newspapers Online [check scheduled dates]
Description: A wide range of historic newspapers and magazines—from the first, Publick Occurrences, published in Boston in 1690, to today's New York Times—is now available digitally and is fully searchable. Many illustrated periodicals from the 19th century are also available as well as contemporary popular magazines such as Vogue and Forbes. This hands-on survey class will provide researchers with the knowledge and basic skills to consult hundreds of titles to explore everything from Benjamin Franklin’s political commentary to 20th-century world events and last week’s restaurant reviews.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Prerequisite: Participation in all classes assumes a basic level of computer skill and experience.
Wanted Dead or Alive: An Introduction to Biographical Research [check scheduled dates]
Description: This hands-on class will introduce you to the wide variety of biographical resources available to New York Public Library users. We will trace the lives of two individuals to contrast ways of researching historical figures and ways of researching contemporary writers and thinkers.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Prerequisite: Participation in all classes assumes a basic level of computer skill and experience.
