Naval Postgraduate School - Library Workshops

Library Workshops

We offer the workshops listed below to the Monterey area NPS community. Most workshops are held in Room 151 on the library's first floor.

Need help now? Workshops, guides and Flash tutorials are available here. We offer quarterly Library Tours, too.

If you are a faculty member and would like the Library to teach a Workshop to your resident or distance students, in your classroom, please contact the Research Assistance and Instruction Manager at x7732.

See the calendar of current library workshops

Jane's

Our Jane’s trainer will be offering a 50 minute introduction to using Jane’s at 1200 on Wednesday May 22.

What is Jane’s?
Most well known for reference books on ships, aircraft and weapons systems such as Jane’s Fighting Ships and All the World’s Aircraft, Jane’s also provides a wide variety of authoritative news, analysis and data on military, security and defense issues.

Sessions:

Wednesday, May 22, 1200-1250 (Justin Geiger, Instructor)

Defense Insider

Defense Information can be deceptively "easy" to run across on the web, but so much MORE is available when you have the kind of authentication "access pass" offered by the library through your NPS affiliation. This class is designed to give you the "Insider view" using up-to-date resources only available via institutional affiliation. We will consider the place of defense research in the academic tradition and outside of it, using licensed resources such as Jane's Online as well as take a look at Inside Defense, DTIC and other military-specific resources.

Sessions:

Tuesday, April 23, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)

RefWorks

Have you ever considered using software to deal with your citations? The Library makes RefWorks, a citation management tool, available to the NPS community. Use RefWorks to save and organize your citations, create bibliographies, and format your citations and references in your papers, thesis and other documents using a wide variety of citation styles (APA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE, etc.). This workshop provides all you need to get started. Information is provided ahead of the workshop so please be sure to register prior to attending.

PRIOR REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Sessions:

Friday, April 12, 1000-1150 (Glen Koué & Ann Jacobson, Instructors)
Thursday, May 2, 1500-1650 (Ann Jacobson & Glen Koué, Instructors)

Research Quickstart: An Introduction to Research at Dudley Knox Library

If you're new to NPS, or if you haven't explored the resources available through the Library, our Research Quickstart workshop is a great place to start! Learn about the vast array of paper and electronic documents you can find at the library. We'll introduce BOSUN, our Library catalog, and visit library research databases such as ProQuest. Relevant to all NPS personnel. or sign up at the Research Assistance Desk.

Register for this workshop online

Sessions:

Tuesday, April 9, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor)
Wednesday, April 17, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)
Thursday, April 25, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor) CANCELLED

Searching the Web More Efficiently

Are your Web searches netting thousands of hits but none of them are really what you are looking for? This workshop will help you to be more efficient in your Internet searches. You will learn some strategies and new tools to help you get what you want. You will also learn how to evaluate information to make sure you are getting reliable and authentic pages.

Register for this workshop online

Sessions:

Wednesday, April 10, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)
Tuesday, April 30, 1200-1250 (Jeff Rothal, Instructor)

Thesis QuickStart

Are you getting ready to start your thesis? This workshop will help you learn how to navigate the thesis process. We will cover resources on the specifics of the NPS thesis process as well as academic research and writing in general.

Sessions:

Tuesday, April 16, 1200-1250 (Glen Koué, Instructor)
Wednesday, May 1, 1200-1250 (George Goncalves, Instructor)

Revised: 03/01/2013