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 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 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 is a 60 - 90 minute webinar led by HCC librarians to help students, faculty, and staff use Ebsco's Academic Search Complete. This database is a full text multi-disciplinary scholarly collection of information that covers many areas in academic study. It is a great place to start researching and it provides access to articles from scholarly journals, magazines, news sources, 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 -
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 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 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
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 60-90 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 -
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 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 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 webinar led by HCC librarians to help students, faculty, and staff use NewsBank, a large collection of popular news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues for their research. NewsBank holds current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, and other news publications. 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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