This interactive workshop is aimed at students and researchers who wish to learn how to search for information effectively, perhaps for a dissertation or literature review.

This session will:

• ·Develop your understanding of your information needs
• ·Familiarise you with library resources for your subject
• Help you formulate a search using keywords and subject terms

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Consider your information needs for a particular purpose
• Use subject guides to discover what the Library has to offer
• Formulate a search using keywords and  Boolean operators
• Construct a search in a relevant database
• Save your search and/or results

Participants should be familiar with using search engines, and should bring along a topic they wish to research during the session.

‘What’s in it for me?’

Learn how to plan and construct an effective search to retrieve the information you need for your academic work.