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Learn Zentangle: Special Crafternoon Workshop
10/28/2024
profile-icon Margot Hanson
Events
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Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. A Zentangle design can look intricate but with one stroke at a time the complicated becomes simple.
Mark your calendars! The Saint Mary's College Library will be hosting a special Crafternoon workshop on Monday, November 4 between 3-5 in the Library Learning Lab. We'll be learning how to Zentangle from Debbie Thompson, a Certified Zentangle Teacher (also, fun fact: Debbie is married to Roger Thompson, our SMC President).
 
Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. A Zentangle design can look intricate but with one stroke at a time the complicated becomes simple.
 
All are welcome! Wheelchair accessible. Supplies are provided.
Questions? Contact Margot Hanson: mdh15@stmarys-ca.edu
 

 

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Library Tip of the Week: Publish Your Research in Open-Access Journals
10/25/2024
profile-icon Gina Kessler Lee
Faculty Services
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Happy International Open Access Week!

 

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. –SPARC


 

Publishing your research open access...


 

Did you know? The Library has transformative agreements with certain publishers that allow you to publish your research open access in their journals without paying an article-processing charge (APC). (More info)


 

Even if your article is behind a paywall, we can host your manuscript open access in SMC Digital Commons. (More info)


 

Want to go open? 

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Library Tip of the Week: AI Tools for Scholarly Research
10/15/2024
Faculty Services
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Did you know there are AI apps designed specifically to help you find, skim, and connect scholarly articles on your area of interest? (And they won’t hallucinate sources out of thin air.)

 

These tools include:

 

Learn more about these tools on the Library's guide to AI Use in Academic Research.

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Library Tip of the Week: Get citation help at the Library
10/09/2024
profile-icon Gina Kessler Lee
Faculty Services
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A new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style was just published! 

 

See what’s new in the 18th edition and access the full new edition online through the Library’s link to the Chicago Manual of Style. And the Library's updated Chicago Style cheat sheets will be online soon!

 

What about APA or MLA style? See our Citation Style Guides for downloadable cheat sheets to MLA, APA, and Chicago–style citations, as well as links to resources for ACS, ASA, Bluebook, CSE, and NLM styles. Share them with students too!


Have a citation question? Send us a chat or drop by the reference desk.

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