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 

Bring along your own topic to try out some of the techniques during the session