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All Brown Bag Seminars (unless otherwise noted) are held from 12 noon - 1 p.m. in the NOAA Central Library, 2nd Floor, SSMC#3, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring. Teleconference is available - email Library.Reference@noaa.gov. Call Mary Lou Cumberpatch (301-713-2600 ext.129) or Skip Theberge (301-713-2600 ext. 115) for further information or to set up a Brown Bag.
A list of previous Brown Bags is available on the Archive Brown Bags page.

Upcoming Seminars are on January 29, February 4, 19

January 29 at 12 noon
NOAA Seagrant Program will host a seminar on oyster research and breast cancer.

February 4 from 10-12 and 1-3 - Endnote Training
Doug Nguygen, Customer Education Specialist for Thomson Reuters, will present free Endnote training for NOAA staff.

Abstract: Endnote is a bibliographic management tool that allows researchers, students, and librarians to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. This class will cover all the basics of using Endnote, Endnote for Web, and using Endnote to insert and cite references as you type your paper. NOAA has a site-wide license for Endnote. To download Endnote, see NOAA NITES site.

Registration is required:
Send an email to Library.Reference@noaa.gov to reserve your spot in either the 10-12 session or the 1-3 session.

Class Syallabus:

• Get acquainted with EndNote and learn about the user interface.
• Learn four ways to add references to your library including manual data entry, online search, direct export, and importing text files downloaded from online sources
• Cite While You Write in Microsoft Word
• Edit citations to suppress author names, years, or both
• Change styles instantly

February 19 from 12 noon - 1 pm
John Tindal and Steve Springer of NOAA's Office of Workforce Management, Corporate and Strategic Human Capital Initiatives, will present a seminar on their team's work as internal consultants for NOAA in the areas of organizational development competency modeling and assessment, survey conduct and analysis, and more.

Additional seminars: OneNOAA Science Discussion Seminar Series
(http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-About/Outreach/) (open access).