Improve My Research Training
Workshop Desciptions
• Onsite Services Descriptions
• Customized Online Classes
• Chat and Email Discussions

Paula Murphy's services include workshops for groups, onsite one on one training visits, online classes and chat and email session. To arrange for any of these services contact, her using the information below.

This service is designed to assist businesses, students, teachers and others in searching for hidden reliable resources that are available 24/7 on the web. It includes help locating information in text, pictures and sound formats. It emphasizes teaching research skills that show how to find this information that can be used now and in the future. Paula Murphy will assist clients with their questions and aid them in finding solutions to their information problems. More information about this service is available at improvemyresearch.com.

Paula Murphy offers workshops that are practical and enlightening. Attendees will come away with knowledge they can use to help improve the services they provide at their institutions.

Using Your Library’s Website Resources: A Workshop for Professionals and People on the Go

This new training workshop is for professionals in businesses and organizations and students who need information from library web accessible resources. It provides reinforcement or special training on the use of 24/7 library resources beyond what their library can provide during normal operating hours. It is designed for individuals to work by appointment online and/or at their location. Libraries can refer library users after their training sessions as an optional after hours fee based service. Flexible hours are available.

The Library of Congress and American Memory Web Sites: Tools for Learning and Exploration

This workshop for librarians, teachers, students and parents explains how to use the Library of Congress’ web site as a teaching resource and research publication. It includes information learned in a training session with the LC staff who developed it. Educator and author Nancy Illing co-teaches this seminar.

Digital special collections are produced and sponsored by local, state, federal and international libraries, museums and other agencies as well as by vendors. This workshop will explore these collections and the service they require. It will present reference techniques to use with school age to adult users of these collections. It will explain how they compare with other digital information and collections in other formats. It will also include a look at how these collections are created, where they are located on the web and what role local and union online catalogs play in working with them.

Presenting Your Library Services: Making Successful Multimedia Library Presentations Using Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Publisher and Other Microsoft Office Software

This workshop explains how to plan and give good presentations using multimedia. Participants will also learn how to capture the attention of group and individual audiences in classroom settings, in web environments, in kiosks and in exhibits by using the audio and visual features of Microsoft’s PowerPoint and other parts of the Microsoft Office suite. They will learn how Microsoft’s Publisher, Excel, Access and Word can enhance and reinforce a presentation with professional grade publications like flyers, signs, programs, graphically enhanced Word documents, follow up newsletters and accompanying handouts with graphs, charts and database records containing media features.

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Because so many librarians and other clients cannot get away from their place of employment for workshops, Paula will come to their institution and present her workshops. She also specializes in one on one training. Librarians in small library settings will especially benefit from her short intensive training sessions.

Paula is also available to do projects for libraries and other organizations that need her expertise in multimedia and special collections areas or any of the other services listed on her resume.

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Paula offers customized online classes for those who would like to learn when time is available to them. Shorten versions of Paula's live workshops also are available online upon request in the form of articles and PowerPoint presentations. Click HERE for more information.

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Paula realizes that due to distance factors some clients will not be able to benefit from an onsite visit. She also knows that after workshops are over and practical applications begin, there is a need to communicate with her. In addition, those who use her online course materials may have many questions that they need answered. Therefore she offers chat and email options to those who want this kind of communication. Emails will be responded to in a timely fashion. Chat sessions can be arranged for those who want to learn online and have the teacher present.

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