Thursday, November 19, 12:00 noon
Frist Multipurpose Room A
Google for Academic Research
Steven Adams
Learn techniques for using Google's search features to zero in on scholarly materials for your research needs. Demos will focus on advanced Google searching, Google Scholar, and Google Books. We will talk about some of the pros and cons of using Google to locate academic content as well as ways to use Google in concert with other library tools.
Speaker Bio: Steven Adams is the Biological and Life Sciences Librarian and Interim Psychology Librarian at Princeton University. In this position, he is responsible for doing collection development, instruction, outreach, and reference for Princeton's Molecular Biology Department, the Psychology Department, and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Steven is currently working on developing innovative library services for the new Lewis Science Library, which opened this semester. He is also working with Janet Temos on the library component of the Princeton University Island in Second Life.
