Summer Berry
Monday                                                                                                                              October 12, 2009
12:45-2:00

Community Technology Centers Program (CTC)

This article was about how lower income communities are able to offer CTC programs to teach community members valuable knowledge of technology and its many uses in order to succeed in business and educational settings.

We related this article about CTC’s to the Class Matters article, “Up from the Holler”. This story recounts the difficulties Della Mae Justice faced in receiving an education because of her low income family. With centers like CTC’s, someone like Della Mae would be able to access free resources that could help them advance in their education and possibly climb out of poverty.

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RefWorks

AH! I DON’T KNOW HOW DO MAKE A WORK CITED PAGE!? Well, RefWorks can help! Yay!  RefWorks is an amazing bibliographic management tool available to us Gonzaga students. By going to the Foley Library Home Page, you can access the RefWorks page on the left hand side of the page. After making an account, you are free to use this citation master at any time; you can even use it off campus. To use it off campus you need a special group code, which is RWGONZAGAU (not case sensitive).

RefWorks houses all of your citations for all of your research papers, ever. You can organize the information in different folders to help you, and the site holds the information until you need to make a bibliography. When you’re ready for your bibliography, you choose the data you want formatted, and the site does everything for you; it’s formatted correctly, in alphabetical order, whether you need MLA or APA etc. IT’S THAT EASY!! It saves you so much time, so you can spend more time on your paper, which you will be writing in the WRITING CENTER!

For more information, about navigating the RefWorks webpage you can go to “help”, then “tutorials” and find several helpful tools. You can also attend classes held in the Foley computer labs; the schedules for these classes are online on the Foley site under “research and RefWorks workshop” link. 

The Writing Center

Having trouble writing? Come to the writing center! It’s located in the front of the Foley Library, how convenient! There are tutors available to you to help you improve your writing, they DO NOT PROOF READ, their goal is to help you improve your own skills and expand on your own ideas. They are there to help, not do. They provide tea and coffee, yum.

HOURS:
Monday-Thursday: 9 AM-7PM
Friday: 9AM-3PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: 5PM-10PM