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.
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.
The SIFT Method, created by Mike Caulfield, is a way to determine if resources are credible. There is so much information available to us at our fingertips, especially with social media and websites. Establishing the credibility of information can be challenging, but the SIFT method was created to help analyze information that you come across, especially news or other online media. 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 60-90 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 -
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 -
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 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. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The dates offered for this semester are -
This webinar will cover the what, why, where, and how of primary sources. After defining primary sources and explaining why they are an important source of information, the librarian will share search tips and resources for finding primary sources for college research papers. 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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