You can see our upcoming webinars on the calendar and in the list below. We offer several different topics at this time. Make sure that you are taking the one best for your needs or that your instructor has specified for your course. To register, just click on the link provided in the calendar date boxes below or the appropriate link in the boxes on the right to choose your preferred date and time. You will then fill out a short registration form.
Once you register, you will receive an email with the session details and the link to the online meeting room. Please watch for the email after registering since each webinar might have a unique link and may require a password.
Please be sure that you are signing up for the correct webinar! Your instructor may have directed you to this page to sign-up only for a particular date or topic, please pay attention to your instructor's wishes if this is the case. For example, an instructor may offer extra credit or assignment points for attending an MLA Style Format webinar (but NOT an APA one!) because MLA is the style used in her course assignments.
Successful webinar participation is determined for each attendee by the individual webinar facilitator and may consist of any combination of time logged into the session and the use of certain features in the webinar platform (solicited audio or typed feedback, polls, surveys and/or activities).
Grades or points awarded are solely at the discretion of HCCS course instructors and not by the HCCS librarians/webinar facilitators.
We cannot report successful attendance in the case of any technical difficulties you might have had that prevented your attendance.
Registration may not be allowed after a session has begun, or for a period of time before a webinar begins.
Webinars may be canceled if there are no registrations as of one hour before the session's start time.
Webinars with registrations may be canceled if no attendees have entered the session as of 25% of the session's scheduled time (7.5 minutes for 30-minute sessions, 15 mins. for 1-hour sessions, etc,) after the session's start time.
NOTE - We also offer the Begin Research tutorials to introduce our students to library and information literacy concepts. Many instructors assign this tutorial for credit. If you need to complete this tutorial, it is located at https://library.hccs.edu/brtutorial/about
Completion of Begin Research is based on the achievement of a score of 80% or above on the included Exit Quiz. When an 80% or more is achieved, students and their noted instructor will receive an email notification of successful completion. No additional completion certificate is included, so if a student needs a document to upload to prove completion, we suggest that they print their completion email as a PDF and use this in lieu of a certificate.
Some instructors offer a version of the tutorial that is contained entirely inside of their Canvas course. In this case, the Exit Quiz is contained in Canvas and graded by the course instructor.
Join us to explore generative AI tools like ChatGPT and learn best practices to avoid plagiarism and demonstrate academic integrity. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 90 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians to help students make sense of different source types available within HCC databases and their uses. Are you confused by the difference between primary and secondary sources? Are you unable to distinguish a popular article from a scholarly article? This interactive webinar will help students understand source type classifications, their uses and advantages, and how to locate and identify them. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60-90 minute informative webinar designed to acquaint you with a number of the library resources, which will be helpful during your course of studies at the college. If you missed a scheduled library orientation with your class, this is an opportunity to make-up the session. A short quiz will be given at the end of the instruction and the results can be sent to your professor. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 30-minute workshop led by HCCS Librarians, designed to help students, faculty, and staff discover the online services and resources offered by the HCC libraries. Topics covered will include navigating top resources on the library homepage, connecting with HCCS librarians via chat, text, and email, and locating ebooks and other resources. Logging into these resources and to user library accounts will be covered.
This informative 30 - minute webinar is designed to help students, faculty, and staff discover the thousands of online ebooks offered by the HCCS libraries. Topics covered will include searching for ebooks using various methods, downloading selections and chapters of ebooks, and options for accessing entire ebooks. Logging into these resources and to user library accounts will be covered.
This informative 30 - minute webinar is designed to help students, faculty, and staff discover the thousands of full-text online academic journals, magazines, and newspapers offered by the HCCS libraries. Topics covered will include searching for these resources using various methods and logging into these resources and to user library accounts will be covered.
This 60 minute webinar is designed to help students use the valuable subscription resource, Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints, to access information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. The database features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60-90 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, that covers how to access peer-reviewed, academic research/journal articles (and much more!) from the libraries' subscription database resources. This is the type of material needed for many college-level assignments. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, that covers how to access relevant HCC library resources as you research your career choices. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This 30, 60, or 90 minute webinar is designed to help students, faculty, and staff get the best results out of our powerful Eagle Library Search tool. The webinar covers getting started with ELS, the scope of searches, several ways to refine your searches, and more. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
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This is a 60-90 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, is designed to assist students with applying MLA format to their assignments for HCC courses. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
Whether you have your paper already written, or haven't even started, this hands-on session will help you get your document into MLA format, This session will not cover formatting citations/references in MLA Style. It is advisable that students come to the session prepared to have their document open to work on, and the instructor's assignment at hand to reference. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60-90 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, designed to assist students with applying APA format to their assignments for HCC courses. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
Whether you have your paper already written, or haven't even started, this hands-on session will help you get your document into APA format, including cover pages and headers. This session will not cover formatting citations/references in APA Style. It is advisable that students come to the session prepared to have their document open to work on, and the instructor's assignment at hand to reference. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, designed to assist students with applying Chicago Style format to their assignments for HCC courses. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This is a 60-90 minute workshop led by HCC Librarians, designed to assist students with detecting and avoiding plagiarism in their assignments for HCC courses. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This 60-90 minute workshop, led by HCC Librarians, focuses upon the concept of "fake news" and includes defining, recognizing, and strategizing tactics for understanding and dealing with the issues involved. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for
SIRS Issues Researcher - This database delivers diverse perspectives on today’s complex social issues with relevant, credible information and tools that equip students to think critically about global controversies. The content covers the pros, cons, and everything in between, on the most studied issues of the day and provides access to periodical articles, reference materials, pictures, government documents, and selected Internet sites, related to a wide range of topics. Please register by clicking on the link below for the date and time that works best for you. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
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