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Tutorials for all students:

 

Tutorials for information literacy skills

Tutorials for computing skills

Tutorials for classes

Tutorial 1: Uni Computing Essentials - 50 minutes


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Tutorial 2: Finding Books: Print and Online - 50 minutes


  • Finding books with Library Search
  • Refine and evaluate your search result
  • Locating materials on the Library Catalogue
  • Understanding call numbers and Library locations
  • Keyword and subject searching

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Tutorial 3: Finding Journal Articles - 50 minutes


  • Understanding journal references on reading lists or in bibliographies
  • Using electronic sources to find journal articles
  • Learn more about Google Scholar

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Tutorial 4: APA Referencing - 50 minutes


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Tutorial 5: APA for Electronic Resources - 50 minutes


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Tutorial 6: Microsoft Word 2010 Essentials - 50 minutes


  • Get familiar with Microsoft Word 2010
  • Practice all the basic skills needed for your first assignment
  • Creating, saving and printing

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Tutorial 6a: Microsoft Word 2010 Advanced: Thesis writing 


  • Formatting your thesis according to the UoW guidelines
  • Using heading styles
  • Creating automatic tables of content, lists of figures, etc
  • Formatting page numbers
  • Inserting landscape pages

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Tutorial 7: Microsoft Excel 2010 Essentials - 50 minutes


  • Unravel the mysteries of worksheets and workbooks
  • Manipulating data in cells and Auto-fill 
  • Basic formulas such as SUM and COUNTIF
  • Absolute and relative referencing
  • Chart wizard (Column Chart and Pie Chart)

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Tutorial 7a:Microsoft Excel 2010 Advanced - 50 minutes


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Tutorial 8: Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Essentials - 50 minutes


  • Create a simple slideshow featuring objects such as clip art, charts and cartoons
  • Basic animated functions
  • Format background with pre-set themes

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Tutorial 8a: Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced 


  • This tutorial will cover advanced PowerPoint techniques

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Tutorial 9: EndNote Tutorial


  • What is EndNote?
  • Creating an EndNote library
  • Importing records from library catalogues and databases
  • Using EndNote with a Microsoft Word document

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Tutorial 9a: Advanced EndNote Tutorial


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Tutorial 10: Zotero Tutorial


  • What is Zotero? 
  • Creating an Zotero library 
  • Saving records from library catalogues, databases and websites
  • Using Zotero with a Microsoft Word document

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Tutorials for Classes

SPLS 101 tutorial: Library Tutorial

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SPLS 102 tutorial: Sports and Leisure Studies Referencing

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PASW/SPSS tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use PASW/SPSS software. Topics include: 

  • Data entry, 
  • How to get descriptive statistics
  • How to import from Excel, and good practice

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WMSLIB1 : Company Data tutorial (Mgmt students only)

This Library database tutorial is suitable for students who need:

  • Company profiles (e.g. coverage, size, name of executives) and contact details
  • Product, service and brand information
  • Annual reports
  • Business news

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WMSLIB2 : Datastream & Thompson One Banker database (Mgmt students only)

This Library database tutorial is suitable for students who need:

  • Extensive international and New Zealand company data
  • Economic indicators and other time series data

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WMSLIB3: Business Statistics (Mgmt students only)

This Library database tutorial is suitable for students who need:

  • Company, country and industry statistics from New Zealand and overseas
  • Economic indicators and other time series data

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