Want to know more about research, citation management or other library topics? Check out our lineup of Fall 2015 workshops. Offerings include EndNote, Google Power User, Data Management 101, Copyright and many more. No registration is required.
Learn how EndNote can help you easily create and manage bibliographic information and incorporate references into your writing. EndNote also offers a relatively easy way for faculty to upload citations into Digital Measures.
This combined EndNote Basic and Cite While You Write workshop will be held from 5:05 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 9) in Library 242.
During the session, we will cover how to create and build an EndNote “library,” add references from online databases and PDFs, and organization best practices. Incorporating references into a Microsoft Word document and changing output styles will also be covered.
Registration for the workshop is required. Register for the EndNote Basic and Cite While You Write workshop.
The Library 242 instruction room has EndNote X8 installed on Windows workstations. Attendees may bring their own laptops with EndNote X8 downloaded prior to the session. Visit the library’s EndNote Guide to download the software and get a sneak peek at what EndNote can do for you. Email library@mtu.edu with any questions.
A PhD candidate in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology at Michigan Tech has given the residents of Minnesota’s Cuyuna Range a unique gift–a glimpse into the history of their own communities. Fred Sutherland is researching the history of the Cuyuna Range, an iron mining region between Brainerd and Aitkin, Minn., for his PhD dissertation. Earlier this month, he presented a summary of findings from a survey of nearly 900 historic buildings and sites along the Cuyuna Range.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the introduction of the Degree completion form. All graduate students will be required to complete this form in their final semester. Effective immediately, this replaces the Life after Michigan Tech and TD-Bindery forms, which will reduce the number of forms most students complete. The new form also incorporates dynamic features which will make it easier to complete, and reflects changes made by the bindery for charging of binding fees.
Additionally, we are pleased to announce that online payment of binding fees is now available.
In support of these procedural changes, we will host a seminar on November 17th at 4:05pm to introduce the form and online payment system to interested students, faculty, and staff. Please register online so we can plan for your attendance. Your confirmation e-mail will have the location of the seminar.
Styles in Word are used to format text consistently throughout your document. Each paragraph may have a single style applied to it. For each paragraph, styles define the:
- Appearance of the text (bold, bulleted, size, font, etc.)
- Behavior of the paragraph (does it stay with the next paragraph? Have a page break before it?)
- Structure of the document (is this a heading meant for the table of contents?)
Styles are found on the Home tab of Word, in the Styles section (boxed in the figure below).
The University is closed on Thursday, November 28th and Friday, November 29th. When the University is closed, the “two week” rule for submitting drafts is relaxed to the next available business day. The Graduate School does not expect students to submit drafts to the committee or the Graduate School when the University is closed (but the Pre-defense form will still calculate these dates as the “due” dates).
- Students scheduling a defense on December 12th or 13th may submit the draft no later than 4pm on Monday, December 2nd.
- Of course, submitting earlier is always fine.
Additionally, the University is scheduling campus wide home directory maintenance from Thursday Nov. 28, 7 p.m., through Sunday Dec. 1, 11 p.m. During this time:
- No one will be able to use a campus computer (like one in the Library, or an office)
- No one will be able to access their campus home directory or the Multidrive
- Everyone will be able to use the wireless network on campus with a personal laptop
- Everyone will be able to log into Canvas or other campus sites (like MyMichiganTech.mtu.edu)
To track progress during the upgrade please visit http://status.it.mtu.edu.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, about the planned upgrade, please call the User Services help desk at 487-1111 or email it-help@mtu.edu for assistance.
Save time by using EndNote software to manage your citations. No prior knowledge of EndNote is required for this workshop. The session will cover: how to create and build an EndNote library, how to add references from online databases and PDFs, best practices for organizing your citations and incorporating references into a Microsoft Word document using EndNote’s “cite while you write” tool. The workshop is at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 10 in Library 242 Register here.
Tabs can be used to align text in a document. This is very useful for lining up the numbers in the table of contents, equations in the body of the document, or lining up lists of items. Spaces should never be used to line up items, since each character in a font is a different width. Precise alignment of items is only possible with a tab.
Learn how Endnote can save you hours of time in the library research and document preparation process!
The Van Pelt and Opie Library is offering two, free EndNote Basics workshops for Michigan Tech graduate students on March 26 and March 28. EndNote is citation management software which allows anyone to easily collect, organize and use their research references.
In this free library workshop participants will learn the basic skills for building a collection of citations, how to manage their collection and how to include the citations in their documents. The workshop will also go over how to easily create bibliographies.
The sessions will be held:
- Monday, March 26 @ 12:00 – 1:30 PM
- Wednesday, March 28 @ 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Seating is limited. Please sign up today by sending and email to: libraryworkshop@mtu.edu
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the Michigan Tech nominees for the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Summer 2016 Nominees
Environmental and Energy Policy
Valoree Gagnon
Chemistry
Melanie Talaga