Last Sunday, a friend of mine—Jodi Schneider (Science Library Specialist, Amherst College)—and I gave a presentation on Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data to the ASIST@UIUC Student Group. [LEEP On Campus Weekend was last week.]
We kept the presentation pretty low-key, not a lot of prep work—couple hours each. We made a single web page, which printed beautifully as a single double-sided page handout.
In an hour we covered some basics such as getting it installed, getting some citations in, getting citations out, that it integrates with word processors, how to back it up, and a bit about link resolvers. I think everyone in attendance had their own laptop and everyone jumped in and played.
I wasn’t as happy as I’d have liked to be with it when it was over, although I couldn’t say why. But. We have gotten a lot of nice feedback from those in attendance. Some was provided to both of us and much of it since Jodi went back home. I made sure to pass it on to her.
People have said they got what they wanted out of it. Sweet! [Luckily they were only looking for familiarity.]
It was also recorded (audio only) and will be available for those with GSLIS affiliation via the ASIST@UIUC Student Group web site.