Kendyl
On September 11th at 4:30 PM, I attended the library’s Citation and Digital Asset Management as a part of their Scholars Toolkit series. The first half of this event focused on Zotero, both the app and the browser extension. I’ve heard of this but never thought to look into it, for no particular reason. The event’s hosts Sydney Adams and Tiffany Camp Johnson walked attendees through Zotero’s download steps, interfaces, and instructions on how to use. For the second half of the session, Sydney and Tiffany talked about Google Drive. I, personally, am very familiar with Google Drive, so I wasn’t as in awe, per se, as I was during the first half.
I’m very glad I attended this session since Zotero seems to be a very useful digital tool! Zotero syncs with your browser and allows you to easily save academic works of interest to your own files, which could be organized by class or assignment, for example. Then, the app can assist you in citing these saved works. If you open your writing program of choice, such as Google Docs, for example, the Zotero extension will once again open and allow you to directly insert a citation! This includes in-text and bibliography style, as well as possibly others that I’ve yet to explore. These are just the two that we were shown how to use. I am very impressed with the efficiency and organization of this digital tool and will definitely utilize this.