LIBRARY WEBSITE: Training Services

Whether you’re a new staff member or just want to brush up on the basics, this workshop is designed to help you get the most out of the library’s services and resources.

In this workshop you will find out how to:

• Navigate the library website
• Become a library member 
• Find a Subject Guide or Help Guide
• Borrow or request books and journal articles
• Search for books, ejournals, ebooks and journal articles
• Find the right database or point-of-care tool for your needs

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Monday 18th September 2023,  2pm REGISTER NOW

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training. 

This session will benefit staff who need to undertake a structured systematic search for background articles as part of a departmental research project or for writing a literature review for postgraduate study.

The focus of this session will be on:

• Overview of the research lifecycle
• Using PICO as a tool to identify search terms from your research question
• Searching Medline
• Using the thesaurus (MeSH) and limits/filters to refine a search
• Saving your search to rerun later
• Adapting your search for different databases
• References and how to manage them

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Tuesday 3rd October 2023,  10-11am REGISTER NOW

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training.

This workshop is designed to enhance your research skills with a strong focus on asking structured clinical questions, finding the best research databases to locate literature and appraising the evidence.

Finding the Evidence

• Developing effective search strategies
• Formulating answerable questions using PICO
• Understanding levels of evidence in the research literature
• Search and find the best evidence in different resources

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Thursday 7th September 2023,  10-11am REGISTER NOW

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training.

A workshop designed for health professionals who need help with finding information for clinical work, research or study.

Hands-on workshop

• Search strategies using the MeSH headings and filters
• Setting limits to refine your search and find the fulltext articles
• Setting up your own account and email alerts

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Friday 25th August 2023,  10-11am REGISTER NOW

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training.

This session focuses on the EBSCO research databases - Medline and CINAHL, to find research information for assignments.

In this workshop you will learn to:

• Search using keywords to find the best research articles
• Use filters/limits to refine a search
• Save, print and export your references to EndNote
• Set up your own account and create email alerts to keep up to date

Session times

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training.

• Delivered via MS Teams: Tuesday 18th July 2023,  10-11am REGISTER NOW

This session is aimed at trainers, educators and any other staff who need to find and use images and videos for work purposes.

We will show you how to:

• Find free-to-use images & videos within electronic library resources
• Find free-to-use images & videos on the internet
• How to use images & videos without breaching copyright

Session times

• Please call the Library to arrange a Finding Images and Videos training session on 89228961

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training.

An introductory workshop designed for health professionals who need help with finding health statistics for clinical work, research or study.

In this workshop you will find out how to:

• Searching and browsing for statistics on the ABS and AIHW websites
• Subscribing to new releases
• Useful tools - Data by Region and TableBuilder
• Citing ABS and AIHW resources
• Finding local NT Health statistics

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Tuesday 7th November 2023,  10-11am REGISTER NOW

Please email us with any queries or booking requests regarding training. 

This workshop is designed to assist staff tasked with the development or review of guidelines or policies to choose the best available evidence from the most appropriate health databases.

In this workshop you will learn:

• The basics of evidence based practice
• Sources for finding the best evidence
• Choose keywords using PICO to answer questions
• When and how to use Point of Care tools, Cochrane library and the primary research databases

Session times

• Delivered via Teams Session : Tuesday 17th October 2023,  10am-11am REGISTER NOW

This short 30 minute workshop will demonstrate how to effectively search the ClinicalKey for Nursing database, explore the different types of content available and to showcase the various tools available to make your nursing research easier.

This session will demonstrate:

• Searching effectively
• Content types
• Nursing tools
• Claiming Continuing Professional development credits
• Creating visual powerpoints using ClinicalKey content

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Thursday 3rd August 2023,  from 14:00-14:30

To register your interest in this session contact Lisa Capps on 89517815 or email Lisa Capps with any queries

This short 30 minute workshop will demonstrate the basics of using a citation management tool (Endnote) to manage the references for your research, work project or study.

This session will demonstrate:

• Overview of different tools that help you reference
• Endnote Library Management
• Reference Creation - manual and importing
• Reference modification – using the edit function
• How to attach PDFs to Endnote
• Demonstration of the 'Cite While You Write' function and modifying a citation
• Changing referencing styles to meet different requirements

Session times

• Delivered via MS Teams: Thursday 27th July 2023, from 10:00-10:30
• Delivered via MS Teams: Friday 11th August 2023, from 14:00-14:30

To register your interest in this session contact Rohani Wallace on 89739036 or email Rohani Wallace with any queries