Information Skills

The Library provides classes to help you to identify, use and evaluate the information resources needed for your research. The specialised learning facility is provided by LSE's Academic Support Librarians and workshops are taught in the Library Training room each term.
This term's Information Skills programme will be advertised below.  

We are also running MY592|, our programme for first and second year PhD students.

Upcoming training classes 

• MY592 Workshop in Information Literacy: finding, managing, organising published research and data
  MY592 Workshop in Information Literacy is a six week programme for PhD students which aims to develop students' research skills and introduce the essential sources and tools when undertaking research, and the skills required to use them.
  
  It teaches information skills from planning a literature search, using the internet effectively for research, researching primary sources, managing references and keeping up to date with new research.
  
  It is part of the Workshop series provided by the Methodology Institute and is taught by the Library and the Centre for Learning Technology.
  
  Register now to secure your place on the Michaelmas Term course.
  
• Keeping up to date
  Learn how to keep up to date with new research and new publications by using RSS feeds, email alerts and email discussion lists.
  This session is open to all LSE students and staff members but would be of most use to those undertaking longer term research or study.
  
  
• Literature searching for your dissertation
  Learn about literature searching using the relevant abstracting and indexing resources for your dissertation.
  
• Dealing with data
  This 60 minute workshop introduces you to the Data Library at LSE. This workshop will examine methods for searching for, using and exporting quantitative datasets from the major data archives available from LSE's extensive Data Library.
• Introduction to Government, Intergovernmental and Archival sources
  This class provides an overview of the government, inter-governmental and archival resources available at LSE. 
  The class will include some hands-on activities looking at three of our electronic sources: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, and AccessUN. 
  There will be an opportunity to learn how to search an archives catalogue and to find archives located outside of LSE.
  
• Managing your references using bibliographic tools
  This session is aimed at staff and PhD students to explore a number of tools to help you manage and store references, including books, papers, journal articles and web resources. We’ll introduce you to several different tools including Endnote, Mendeley and Zotero. You will have time to explore the features of each and to find the most appropriate solution for your own research.
  

To book a place on an upcoming course, please login to the LSE Training and Development system|.  If you cannot find a session that fits your needs please email us|.