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Upcoming Events @ TML

RefWorks
Thursday, September 12, 2013
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This online workshop will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript.
Register Online


RefWorks
Monday, September 23, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, 2-006
Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome.
Register Online


Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour
Thursday, September 26, 2013
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, 2-006
Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome.
Register Online

Upcoming Events @ TML

Open Online Workshop: RefWorks - A Citation Management Program

Monday, August 26, 2013

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

Online

Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Registration is required. After registering, participants will receive the class URL via email

Register Online

Open Online Workshop: PubMed: the Basics

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

Online

Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Registration is required. After registering, participants will receive the class URL via email.

Register Online

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Noon - 1:00 pm

Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch.

Register Online

Upcoming Events @ TML

Open Online Workshop: PubMed: The Basics

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Noon - 1:00 pm

Online ,   MCV Campus

Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Registration is required. After registering, participants will receive the class URL via email.

Register Online

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Noon - 1:00 pm

Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, Room 2-006,   MCV Campus

 Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we'll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch.

 Register Online

 

Open Workshop: RefWorks - A Citation Management Program      

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Noon - 1:00 pm

Tompkins-McCaw Library - Library Classroom, 2-006,   MCV Campus

 Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome.

 Register Now

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour

 Thursday, July 25, 2013

10:00 am - 11:00 am

 Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, 2-006,   MCV Campus

 Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome.

 Register Online

Open Online Workshop: RefWorks

 Wednesday, July 31, 2013

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

 Online ,   MCV Campus

 Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This online workshop will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Registration required. After registering you will receive the class URL via email.

 Register Online

Upcoming Events @ TML

Open Workshop: PubMed: The Basics

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Noon - 1:00 pm 

Tompkins-McCaw Library - Library Classroom, 2-006,   MCV Campus

Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. 

Register Now
 

 

Open Workshop: RefWorks - A Citation Management Program

Monday, June 24, 2013
11:00 am - Noon

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library - Library Classroom, 2-006,   MCV Campus

 

Do you want to save time and energy in managing your citations and creating a bibliography? This class will discuss topics including importing citations from databases, organizing the citations, and correctly formatting citations for a manuscript. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. 

 

Register Now

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation & Tour

 

Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Noon - 1:00 pm

 

Tompkins-McCaw Library - TML Classroom, Room 2-006,   MCV Campus

 

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we'll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. 

 

Register Online

Upcoming Events @ TML

Open Workshop: Library Orientation & Tour

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, TML Classroom, Room 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Register at Library Tour  

 

Online Workshop: PubMed

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm, Online

Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Registration is required. After registering, participants will receive the class URL via email. Register at PubMed

 

Open Workshop: Library Orientation & Tour

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Noon - 1:00 pm, TML Classroom, Room 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Register at Library Tour  

Upcoming Events @ TML

Searching Primo-the new VCU Libraries Discovery Tool
Tuesday, March 5
11:00 am - Noon, Sanger Hall B1-020

Have you tried the VCU Libraries Search box recently and noticed the new results format? Are you uncertain about what you have found? Please join us to learn about what you are searching and strategies for finding what you need. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Register at Searching Primo

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation and Tour
Thursday, March 7
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML Room 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Attendees may bring their lunch. Register at Library Tour

Brown Bag Lunch: The IRB - the Exempt, the Expedited, and the Full-Board
Wednesday, March 13
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML, Room 109

Understand the different levels of regulatory review required for research from Drs. Monika Markowitz, OHRP, and Betsy Ripley, IRB Chair. A second session will be scheduled to address specific questions from attendees. This session is free and open to the public. Seating is limited; advance registration is encouraged. The Whetting Your Appetite for Research Brown Bag series provides a forum for students, faculty, staff, and community partners engaged in research at VCU to gain a better understanding of the research process at VCU. Register at Brown Bag

Film Screening: Is Seeing Believing?
Thursday, March 14
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML Learning Center @ Hunton Student Center, Room 209

Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the colors of food and drink, explain how what you see can change what you hear, and see just how unreliable our sense of color can be. But all this trickery has a serious purpose. It is helping scientists to create a new understanding of how our senses work, not as individual senses, but connected together. Attendees may bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Register at Film Screening

This Week @ TML

Wednesday, September 5
3:00 - 4:00 pm
1st Floor Conference Room

Thursday, September 6
12:00 - 1:00 pm
TML Learning Center @ Hunton

Spring Semester workshops begin February 9

Take advantage of a number of upcoming classes offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library on a variety of topics, including sessions on Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Finding Health Statistics Online, RefWorks, Finding Images, and more.

Information about upcoming events and orientations offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library and the James Branch Cabell Library is available through the Library Events Calendar

For more information about training opportunities at Tompkins-McCaw Library, please contact Thelma Mack at 804-828-0017 or mackta@vcu.edu.

Finding Study Space at Tompkins-McCaw Library - More Than Meets the Eye

The 1st floor of TML is usually filled with students collaborating and using computers. It is a popular place for group discussions over lunch. But there are more study areas and more computers throughout the Library.

Up on the 2nd floor of TML you'll find some tables for quiet study, plus there are 8 computers, and in the front corner of the building, next to the Library Instruction Classroom, there is a Quiet Study Room (Rm 2-001).

From the 2nd floor you can also get to our Group Study Rooms - rooms with whiteboards, internet access, and some with DVD/VCRs, anatomical models, or plasma monitors for presentation practice. Check our web site for room details.

In the Basement there are another 10 computers as well as some study carrels and the Multimedia Collaboration Room (turn left when you leave the stairs or elevator and you'll see the sign - Rm B-037). There are self-service multimedia computers as well as group study seating. See our web site for multimedia software details. A soda machine is also in the Library Basement.

Find out more about our Group Study Rooms and Multimedia Collaboration Room, or take a look at a Library map at the TML web site.

Additional study space and computers are available in Hunton Student Center.

Upcoming Orientations

If you'd like to learn more about the library or our media workshop, mark your calendars for the upcoming orientations:

Library 101
Tuesday October 28 at 1pm
Friday November 7 at 9am
Monday November 17 at 12pm
Tuesday December 2 at 11 am

Instructional Media Workshop Orientation
Wednesday November 5 at 2pm
Tuesday November 18 at 9am
Monday December 1 at 3pm

To register for an orientation or to check out all of our upcoming events, visit the Library Events page.

Upcoming Orientations and Training at Tompkins-McCaw Library

Take advantage of a number of upcoming classes offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences on a variety of topics, including PubMed, RefWorks, Tests and Measurements, and the Instructional Media Workshop. A complete list of upcoming training and orientations is available through the VCU Libraries Events calendar. Sign-up today!

To schedule a training session at the Tompkins-McCaw Library, contact Thelma Mack, Education Services Coordinator, 828-0017.

Keeping Current: Resources for Researchers

Learn tips to help make your research efforts more effective and efficient. Attendees will be shown how to customize library services, store searches and find the most current research using PubMed and Web of Science (WOS), NCHS data sources, CRISP, and an introduction to searching for funding. Tompkins-McCaw Library - LIMERC, Rm. 2-012, MCV Campus.

* Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Noon - 1:30 pm
* Monday, February 19, 2007 Noon - 1:30 pm
* Thursday, March 8, 2007 Noon - 1:30 pm (Hunton Hall)
* Monday, April 16, 2007 Noon - 1:30 pm

Registration Today at: http://www.library.vcu.edu/events/index.html

Tompkins-McCaw Library Fall workshops

Take advantage of a number of upcoming classes offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library on a variety of topics, including PubMed, RefWorks, Finding Full-text articles, Drug Information, the Instructional Media Workshop, ordering articles using ILLiad, and more. Information about upcoming events and orientations offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library and the James Branch Cabell Library is available through the VCU Events calendar

For more information about training opportunities at Tompkins-McCaw Library, please contact Thelma Mack at 804-828-0017 or mackta@vcu.edu.