Off The Shelf

Most learners are on the second week of break, so coursework may be the last thing on your mind. However, breaks can be the perfect time to keep up with the literature in your field. Use the guides below to find out how to keep up with the current events related to your program: Identifying [...]

Webinar:  “Save Time! Employ Effective Time Management Strategies” – March 26th, 12:00 pm CDT (1:00 pm EDT) While it’s often overlooked, good time management is a skill that moves you toward success.  Take advantage of the spring break to attend this time management webinar offered by our friends in the Learning Assistance Center.  Sign up [...]

Library Guides are popular resources among Capella University learners, receiving tens of thousands of views each month. However, with so many to choose from, it can be easy to miss some, so we are starting this Spotlight series to highlight guides that may be most helpful.  There will be a new Spotlight post at the [...]

RefWorks: Thursday, March 14th, 2013, 7:00 PM Central Whether you’re working on the literature review for your dissertation or “just” finding articles to use for a course paper, keeping your information organized is half the battle toward successfully completing your work. Learn how to collect, organize, and store reference citations from library databases and other [...]

Executive summary Capella University’s online, digital library is one of the most valuable resources you can use to support your academic success. Recently, a study was done to demonstrate student success rates in relation to using the library. Scope and Initial Queries In 2012, Capella collected data to measure student success related to use of [...]

The U.S. government has many agencies that collect data on all manner of topics, including but not limited to education, employment, health, and public safety. If you need to find government generated data and/or statistics, a good government website to visit is the Data & Statistics page of USA.gov. The Capella University Library has also [...]

Every quarter, the library receives a number of questions about how to create annotated outlines and annotated bibliographies. You are usually required to create one or both of these tools as part of the writing process because they help you to think about your topic and organize your thoughts in preparation for writing your paper. [...]

Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library: Thursday, February 7th, 2012, 7:00 PM Central Need to find articles for your coursework? Whether they need to be peer-reviewed or not, if you ever get frustrated that you sometimes get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great webinar [...]

There are times when you may find a reference citation for a journal article or book that you would like to read for yourself–such as from a reference list, your courseroom, or an internet search–but how do you find out if it’s available from the Capella Library? If you have the full citation, including the [...]

RefWorks: Thursday, January 17th, 2012, 7:00 PM Central You’ve learned how to find articles in the library. Now how do you keep track of what you’ve found? Learn how to collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources using RefWorks. If you haven’t been using this handy tool to take control of [...]