Are you curious about using a Mac as opposed to a PC?  Have you logged into the Windows side of the Macintosh computers in the Student Multimedia Design Center, or had your students do so, because you are more familiar with Windows?  This workshop will give a brief overview to the Mac desktop for Windows users.  The workshop will examine the Mac interface, demonstrate where tools and items are located using Finder and the Dock, and how to accomplish tasks in a Mac that you are used to doing on a PC.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Shelly McCoy, Associate Librarian and Head, Student Multimedia Design Center.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will explore iMovie ‘09’s intuitive interface, will teach how to manage and save a project, and will cover all of the basics of non-linear video editing.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will explore iMovie ‘09’s intuitive interface, will teach how to manage and save a project, and will cover all of the basics of non-linear video editing.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will explore iMovie ‘09’s intuitive interface, will teach how to manage and save a project, and will cover all of the basics of non-linear video editing.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

The Instructional Media Collection Department (IMCD) of the University of Delaware Library will offer UD faculty and instructors an hour-long overview of film and video resources and services available for classroom instructional support and research. The session will begin with a tour of the Instructional Media Department facilities which include viewing carrels, a Viewing Room, and Media Research Room. Participants will be shown how to search the Media Collection in DELCAT and will be given an online tour of the Instructional Media Web site. 

Please Note:  This session does not cover services and resources offered by the Student Multimedia Design Center.

Location: Library Instructional Media Collection Department desk, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Meghann Matwichuk, Associate Librarian, Instructional Media Collection Department.

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.  This workshop will show participants how to search for images, create and manage image groups, add your own images, and download images for use in presentations.

ARTstor is available from the Library Databases page.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenter: Susan Davi, Associate Librarian, Reference Department and Derek Churchill, Director, Visual Resources Collection.

The Research Funding Online workshop will focus on two library databases, Foundation Directory Online and COS Funding Opportunities, which faculty, staff and graduate students can use to identify potential funding resources, such as grants from private foundations, corporations and public charities. The workshop will cover strategies for searching the databases, procedures for using alerting services and RSS feeds and locating additional grant information on the Internet.  This workshop is co-sponsored by the University of Delaware Research Office.

Foundation Directory Online is available only in the Morris Library; select from the Library Databases page.

COS Funding Opportunities is available from the Library Databases page.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenter: Michael Gutierrez, Associate Librarian, Reference Department.

GIS (Geographic Information System) allows researchers to visually analyze geographic data and attributes of that data, project multiple conclusions, and present findings in such a way that others can easily interpret them.  This class will introduce participants to basic ArcView GIS tools and functions including adding data, symbolizing, joining table data, making queries, and map making.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Shelly McCoy, Associate Librarian and Head, Student Multimedia Design Center.

The Instructional Media Collection Department (IMCD) of the University of Delaware Library will offer UD faculty and instructors an hour-long overview of film and video resources and services available for classroom instructional support and research. The session will begin with a tour of the Instructional Media Department facilities which include viewing carrels, a Viewing Room, and Media Research Room. Participants will be shown how to search the Media Collection in DELCAT and will be given an online tour of the Instructional Media Web site. 

Please Note:  This session does not cover services and resources offered by the Student Multimedia Design Center.

Location: Library Instructional Media Collection Department desk, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Meghann Matwichuk, Associate Librarian, Instructional Media Collection Department.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will focus on the intermediate level options in Apple’s feature rich video editor, iMovie ’09.  Workshop participants will learn how to integrate audio into a project, how to create voiceovers, how to work with the precision editor and clip trimmer, how to make video and audio adjustments, and how to create a movie from photos.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management system used to create and manage references, export references from databases, and generate bibliographies or reference lists. This workshop introduces the basic functions of RefWorks. Topics covered include setting up an account, exporting citations from research databases, importing citations to RefWorks, creating folders, organizing citations, and creating a Bibliography or References list.

RefWorks is available from the Library Databases page.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenters: Michael Gutierrez, Associate Librarian, and Lydia Collins, Assistant Librarian, Reference Department.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will focus on the intermediate level options in Apple’s feature rich video editor, iMovie ’09.  Workshop participants will learn how to integrate audio into a project, how to create voiceovers, how to work with the precision editor and clip trimmer, how to make video and audio adjustments, and how to create a movie from photos.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  This hands-on workshop will focus on the intermediate level options in Apple’s feature rich video editor, iMovie ’09.  Workshop participants will learn how to integrate audio into a project, how to create voiceovers, how to work with the precision editor and clip trimmer, how to make video and audio adjustments, and how to create a movie from photos.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management system that is used to create and manage references, export references from databases, and generate bigliographies or reference lists.  This workshop introduces the advanced functions of RefWorks.  Topics covered include exporting references from research databases, organizing references, and using the Write–N-Cite feature to insert in-text citations, and creating bibliographies or reference lists.

Previous attendance at an “Introduction to RefWorks”workshop is highly recommended.

RefWorks is available from the Library Databases page.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenter: Erin Daix, Associate Librarian, Reference Department.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  While Apple’s iMovie ’09 is considered a first-step editor, its advanced features put this program in a class above the competition.  This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to add keywords and markers, how to stabilize video, how to integrate picture-in-picture, and how to work with green-screen effects. 

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management system used to create and manage references, export references from databases, and generate bibliographies or reference lists. This workshop introduces the basic functions of RefWorks. Topics covered include setting up an account, exporting citations from research databases, importing citations to RefWorks, creating folders, organizing citations, and creating a Bibliography or References list.

RefWorks is available from the Library Databases page.

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenters: Michael Gutierrez, Associate Librarian, and Lydia Collins, Assistant Librarian, Reference Department.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  While Apple’s iMovie ’09 is considered a first-step editor, its advanced features put this program in a class above the competition.  This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to add keywords and markers, how to stabilize video, how to integrate picture-in-picture, and how to work with green-screen effects. 

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

The Genealogy for Beginners workshop covers the basics for researchers who are just starting to work on their family histories. It presents an overview of the types of records that contain genealogical information as well as strategies for finding and recording this data. Learn how to search the online database Ancestry Library Edition for U.S. census records.

Ancestry Library Edition is available from the Library Databases page.

This workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff.

The workshop is also open to the general public. Online registration is not available to members of the general public. To register, call the Reference Department at 831-2432 or email .

Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenters: Rebecca Knight, Associate Librarian, and Linda Stein, Librarian, Reference Department.

Building on a history of great video editing tools, Apple’s latest version of iMovie provides more flexibility for working with themes, adding titles, transitions, and effects to movies with its updated drag-and-drop editor.  While Apple’s iMovie ’09 is considered a first-step editor, its advanced features put this program in a class above the competition.  This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to add keywords and markers, how to stabilize video, how to integrate picture-in-picture, and how to work with green-screen effects. 

The workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff. Seating is very limited and registration is required.

Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Classroom B, Morris Library, Lower Level.

Presenter: Bryce Spencer, Senior Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center.

Genealogy researchers can find valuable information in church and cemetery records. Some churches keep records of baptisms, burials, and marriages, which provide dates and family relationships. Tombstones and cemetery records often identify the names of previously unknown family members and reveal much more than just the year and cause of death. This workshop covers the types of information included in these family documents and introduces Internet sites and resources in the University of Delaware collections that can help researchers locate them.

Ancestry Library Edition is available from the Library Databases page.

This workshop is open to UD students, faculty, and staff.

The workshop is also open to the general public. Online registration is not available to members of the general public. To register, call the Reference Department at 831-2432 or email .

Seating is limited and registration is required.

Location: Library Instruction Room (Rm. 116A), Morris Library.

Presenters: Rebecca Knight, Associate Librarian, and Linda Stein, Librarian, Reference Department.