To register online, click the class title. If these dates and times are bad for you, please feel free to email brekhusr at missouri dot edu with a preferred time. We will make an effort to accommodate you. The March workshop will be incorporated into graduate student workshops that month; date is tba.

All workshops are in-person unless marked as online. Zotero workshops meet in 213 Ellis Library, which is the computer classroom on the north side of the building on the 2nd floor, across from the main reading room.

Thursday, Jan 30, 2014: Intro to Zotero
4:30-6:00 pm

Friday, Feb 21, 2014: Intro to Zotero
noon-1:30 p.m.

Friday, Apr 18, 2014: Intro to Zotero
noon-1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014: Intro to Zotero
noon-1:30 p.m.

For more information about Zotero, see: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/zotero

I’ve got a New (Fiscal) Year resolution: to construct email subject lines that help people decide to read them or how to file them.

• If a response is required, I’ll start the subject with Response Needed:
• If my subject line is in danger of making people think they don’t need to read further,  I will use the phrase –keep reading at the end or consider crafting a second email instead (example:  No meeting today – keep reading) to indicate that there’ll be no meeting, but I’d still like committee members to do something.
• If I’m sending a report or notes from a meeting, I’ll say so in the subject line, preferably in the first word of it
• Rather than just a noun in the subject line, I’ll put something more revealing, containing a verb; in general, I’ll try to give the reader the idea that reading the subject is not enough, that there is unknown information that the reader will feel compelled to click no.  Ex.: Bring a t-shirt for silkscreening at MOBIUS or New Rules for t-shirts at MOBIUS instead of just t-shirts at MOBIUS

Anyone else have subject line advice to share?

Submitted by Rachel Brekhus