Do you have Research Assistants (RAs) responsible for doing literature searches, citation management, or other work in support of research? Do you have Teaching Assistants (TAs) responsible for assisting students with finding information for their research papers? The Research Bootcamp offered by the Dalhousie Libraries may be just the thing to firm up their research skills. The objective of the Bootcamp is to develop and/or refresh the literature searching and information management abilities of research assistants, teaching assistants, and graduate students.

The Bootcamp starts off with Core Skills Sessions, which are applicable to all participants. From there, your RAs and TAs can customize their suite of workshops by choosing from a selection of discipline-specific literature searching workshops and information management skills workshops to best address their needs and the work with which they will be involved. This year we have added sessions in partnership with Dalhousie’s Writing Centre and other sessions based on feedback from last year.

Register your students for the Core Skills and customized Subject Searching and Information Management sessions. Registration will remain open until April 28. Visit http://dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchBootcamp for all the details, and select the “Registration” tab to sign up.