Power Searching Classes with Google

Power Searching with Google 

http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/course

Want to improve your Google search skills?
Want to be smarter and faster on the web?

Google is offering a FREE series of 6 web tutorials on just that.
These are the search secrets a Librarian (like me) would love to tell you!

It’s a valuable online class series. I guarantee you’ll learn SOMETHING if you invest the time and effort to do the classes and activities. These power searching skills are sure to help you at work, and it will help you in your home life, too!

Here are some things you’ll learn in the first class :
*  Filtering image search results by color
*  How does Google work?  And what is a Spider, anyway?
*  The Art of Choosing Keywords Wisely
*  Word Order Matters
*  Finding Text on a Web Page

In subsequent classes, Google Senior Research Analyst, Daniel Russell helps you
> Interpret search results
> Master advanced search techniques
> Find facts faster
> and check facts.

Here's your chance to become a Google Power Searcher. 
Join the top 10% of Searchers!

Citation Generators : Your life just got a whole lot easier!

Do you need to produce a reference list for a presentation, paper, project, or a policy? There are a number of free tools on the web that make this often tedious process a whole lot easier! These tools make it so easy to credit information sources, there’s no reason not to do so!

PubMed Citation Matcher

AMA Citation Generator
Plug in as little as a PubMed ID, ISBN, or Amazon url for a book or journal and this handy tool spits out a properly formatted AMA citation.

Citation Machine
Free tool designed to assist in generating APA, MLA, and Chicago style citations (Turabian is still under development). Part of the Landmarks for Schools Web site.

KnightCite Citation Service
Easily and freely generate citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago style formats for many types of print and electronic resources. Project of Heckman Library, Calvin.

Additionally, many of our journal index citation databases allow formatting the search results in many different citation styles including AMA, APA, MLA, and others. This includes Cinahl and the Ebsco databases.

Questions or comments? Contact Your Librarians :
     Michele Matucheski (MMC) 3-0340
     or Margo Lambert (STE) 8-2325

Health Literacy Resources

Health Literacy is the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about your health and medical care. Health information can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills. About one third of the adult population in the United States has limited health literacy.


Limited health literacy can affect a patient's ability to

• Fill out complex forms
• Locate providers and services
• Share personal information such as health history
• Take care of yourself
• Manage a chronic disease
• Understand how to take medicines
                                    -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

If you would like to learn more about how to help patients be more health literate, please visit the Health Literacy Resources web page.  (Affinity Access Only)