Library Workshop Handouts
Handouts and Tutorials
Note: Many of these handouts are in Portable Document Format (pdf) and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The reader provides both viewing and printing capabilities and can be configured to launch automatically from within a Web browser. Once Adobe Acrobat is downloaded and installed, the documents linked here can be viewed and printed.
- Access
- Basics Presentation
- Basics Tutorial
- Advanced Presentation
- Advanced Tutorial
- Contacts Excel worksheet
- AgeLine
- AgeLine Database Description
- AgeLine Basic and Advanced Searching
- AgeLine Searching Tips
- AgeLine Age Groups
- Bibliographic Management
- EndNote (version X3)
- EndNote Quick Start
- Exercise 1: Create an EndNote Library, Search PubMed from within EndNote,
Create a Group and Find Full Text --in PDF - Exercise 2: Save PubMed Citations and Import Citations from PubMed
to an EndNote Library -- in PDF - Exercise 3: Perform a search in CINAHL, add citations to a folder,
and Export citations to EndNote -- in PDF - Exercise 4: Use Cite While You Write with MS Word to Create In-text Citations
and a Bibliography at the End of the Paper (for MS Word 2007)-- in PDF - Exercise 4: for MS Word 2003
- Exercise 5: Journals Term List and Editing an Output Style to Include Full Journal Names; APA 6th and DOI; Edit an In-Text Citation; Edit an Output Style; Adding Connection Files --in PDF
- Detailed Instructions for Use -- 39 pages in PDF
- PowerPoint Slides in PDF
- Writing Style Guide for the University of Utah
- EndNote (version X2)
- Instructions for Use in PDF
- EndNote Quick Start
- PowerPoint slides in PDF
- EndNote Web
- EndNote Web tutorial from Thomson
- Reference Manager (version 10)
- Brief Instructions for Use in PDF
- EndNote (version X3)
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Captivate - Recording and Publishing a PowerPoint Presentation
- Captivate instructions in PDF
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with nursing focus
- Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with physical therapy focus
- Searching tutorial, EBSCOhost interface with occupational therapy focus
- CINAHL Headings
- CINAHL Wildcard-Truncation
- Differences between CINAHL, MEDLINE and the Library Catalog
- Search Strategy Decision Tree from Cinahl Inc.,
- Excel
- Excel Essentials - for Office 2007 on PC and Office 2008 on Mac
- Excel in Office 2003 for PC
- Full Text Databases
- Academic Universe (legal, legislative, medical. etc.)
- Cochrane Library (evidence-based systematic reviews)
- ProQuest (business sources and newspapers)
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost database)
- MedlinePlus and Health Source - Consumer Edition Practice Questions
- PubMED for searching MEDLINE
- Age Group MeSH Headings for Searching Human Topics
- Applying Limits in PubMed MEDLINE
- Automatic Term Mapping
- Hints & Extras
- MeSH versus Text Words (Medical Subject Heading)
- My NCBI: Saving Search Strategies and Automatic Email Updates
- Publication Types
- PubMed Basics - trifold brochure
- Search Field Qualifier Tags
- Structure of the MEDLINE Record in PubMed (the MEDLINE display format)
- Subheadings and Families of Subheading Explosions
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Interdisciplinary
Course: Finding Reliable Information
This tutorial reviews the processes for searching PubMed to find the evidence to support clinical decision making. It was developed using Captivate and was produced by an interdisciplinary team of faculty from the Eccles Health Sciences Library, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine.
Authors: Jeanne Le Ber, MLIS; Mollie Poynton, PhD, APRN, BC; Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN; Frederick Albright, PhD; and Denise Beaudoin, MD, MSPH, MS
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MEDLINEplus Guide to Health
Searching (critical evaluation of consumer health websites)
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My NCBI Quick Tours
These 4-7 minute tutorials created by the National Library of Medicine include links to Getting Started with My NCBI, Saving Searches, Filters, Collections, E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals, etc.
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RSS Feeds and Podcasts from the
National Library of Medicine
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for sharing and distributing Web content. Using an RSS reader, you will be notified when new content is published on the feeds that interest you, without cluttering your inbox with e-mail messages.
- Photoshop; Scanning with Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop (CS2): Basic Techniques for Photographs
- Title page
- Instructions for Scanning Images
- Instructions for Creating PDFs
- Using the Batch Slide Scanner
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorial and Exercises (v. 7)
- Title page (v. 7)
- Powerpoint Presentations
- PowerPoint 2007
- PowerPoint 2003
- PowerPoint 2003; Basics Tutorial
- Powerpoint 2003; Advanced Techniques Tutorial
- Powerpoint 2003; Icons
- Tips for Creating Effective and Interesting PowerPoint Presentations
- Powerpoint 2003; Posters
- PowerPoint Posters: Tips & Guidelines - Medical Graphics and Photography
- PowerPoint Poster Template: 36" by 56" - Medical Graphics and Photography
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Powerpoint Jeopardy Instructions
(used with permission of Philip Bigler, Director, James Madison Center; Harrisonburg, VA)
- Tablet PC Basics
- Tablet PC Overview For Health Sciences Faculty
- Quick Start
- Quick Tour
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Exercises as PDF
Files for use in the class - Practice PowerPoint
- Practice MSWord Document
- Images for annoation and use in Windows Journal
- Web of Science
- Web of Science instructions and exercises in PDF
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Technology Update: New Technologies Used in Health Sciences Education and Training
(Taught for the Medical Library Associaton, May 2005)- Agenda
- Tablet PC
- Wireless
- Personal Digital Assistants - PDAs
- Internet Communication Technologies
- PowerPoint slides
- Class exercises
- Bibliography

The above class handouts are licensed under a
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