Tutorial Thursday: Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s extensive library of video tutorials, available on YouTube. Please feel free to link or embed videos or playlists in library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to share a recording of one of our APA Style CENTRAL® webinars: Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL. You’ll find this recording on our new APA Style CENTRAL YouTube Channel, where we plan to add recordings of our other webinars, and other materials as they become available.

This session is geared at faculty members, librarians, instructors, and others who are responsible for teaching APA Style, and covers the content, features, and tools of APA Style CENTRAL that can be incorporated into course and bibliographic instruction. This includes a brief discussion of integrating APA Style CENTRAL into a learning management system, as well as an overview of how to use the Research Lab Book tools with a class or advisee.

We will be offering additional, live sessions of this webinar again early in 2017. When the schedule is ready, we will post the details here and on our website.

New in PsycBOOKS: November 2016

Posted on December 6, 2016December 6, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

In November 2016, APA added 4 new APA books to PsycBOOKS®:

Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment, 3rd Edition, ©2017 by Parsons, Michael W. (Ed.); Hammeke, Thomas A. (Ed.). ISBN: 1-4338-1688-1
Handbook of Rehabilitation Psychology, 2nd Edition, ©2017 by Frank, Robert G.; Rosenthal, Mitchell; Caplan, Bruce. ISBN: 1-4338-0444-1
Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and Practices, ©2017 by Blume, Maria; Lust, Barbara C. ISBN: 3-11-041522-4
Transforming Long-Term Care: Expanded Roles for Mental Health Professionals, ©2017 by Carney, Kelly O’Shea; Norris, Margaret P. ISBN: 1-4338-2366-7

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET® Administrator Help Menu.

View the past monthly PsycBOOKS update lists, a list of sample PsycBOOKS titles, and the full coverage list for PsycBOOKS.

New in PsycBOOKS: October 2016

Posted on November 16, 2016November 16, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

In October 2016, APA added 2 new APA books to PsycBOOKS®:

Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder, ©2017 by Naigles, Letitia R. (Ed.). ISBN: 978-3-11-040987-1
Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research Into Clinical Practice, ©2017 by Park, Crystal L.; Currier, Joseph M.; Harris, J. Irene; Slattery, Jeanne M. ISBN: 978-1-4338-2326-8

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET® Administrator Help Menu.

View the past monthly PsycBOOKS update lists, a list of sample PsycBOOKS titles, and the full coverage list for PsycBOOKS.

Webinar Alert: New APA Style CENTRAL Training Sessions on Teaching and Writing for November & December 2016

Posted on November 11, 2016November 10, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

APA’s training specialists have developed two new training sessions on using APA Style CENTRAL® for teaching and writing. Each webinar includes a content overview and a live demonstration of features.

Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL covers the platform content, features, and tools that can be incorporated into course and bibliographic instruction. It’s a great way to tour the learning resources that are available. Faculty, librarians, and anyone responsible for teaching APA Style will benefit from this webinar.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL details the wide range of writing tools and functionality that make writing papers and managing their references easier. Students, end users, and those in instructional roles can all benefit from this webinar.

The November and December schedule appears below; click on any session below to register (Note: All times are UTC-5):

Teaching With APA Style CENTRAL (60 minutes):

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, at 11:00 a.m.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL (30 minutes):

Interested but unable to join any of these sessions? More will be scheduled beginning in January 2017, and you’ll be glad to learn that we recently posted a recording of the Teaching with APA Style CENTRAL session on our YouTube channel.

You can also view or download the slides for any of our APA Style CENTRAL presentations on the APA Style CENTRAL SlideShare channel.

The schedule for all APA Style CENTRAL webinars is available on our website.

APA Librarian Conference Travel Award: Apply by Nov. 30 for Spring 2017 Conferences

Posted on November 7, 2016November 1, 2016 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

Do you work in an academic or health sciences library in the United States? Are you an early- or mid-career librarian? Are you looking for sources of funding for a conference you’d like to attend this spring?

If the answer to all of those questions is yes, please consider applying for an APA Librarian Conference Travel Award! Through November 30, 2016, we are accepting applications for conferences taking place from January to April 2017. This includes – but is not limited to – the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, ALA Midwinter, Electronic Resources & Libraries, the ACRL 2017 Conference, Code4Lib, the ACRL Immersion Teaching with Technology Track, and the Annual Conference on the First Year Experience.

The award is intended to help defray conference-related expenses for librarians with less than 15 years of experience after receiving their MLS. Three cash awards are distributed three times each calendar year, and the application cycle opens and closes on a rolling basis. At this time, we are not limiting the conferences that are eligible for travel award funding. Applicants should identify the conference that best meets their professional needs, and explain how attendance will support their current duties and future goals.

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