Workshop on Zotero Reference Management Software held at ULAB Library

Farzana Jumi, April 13, 2019

Officer, ULAB Library

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) Library organized a training workshop on “Zotero: A Reference Management Software” (10th Series) for the BBA students on Monday, 8 April 2018 at ULAB Auditorium, Campus A, Dhanmondi.

 

Zotero is a free, open-source reference management software that integrates with web browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. The main purpose of this training was to encounter the challenge of plagiarism and to enable the participants to become aware of the existing practice of reference management system. The workshop focused on some introductory key features of Zotero including saving references from within a web browser; inserting citations into Word documents; setting up groups; sharing references and configuring Zotero to find full-text articles through online databases.

Wazir A F Ahmad, Assistant Professor & Director, BBA Program, ULAB attended in the Inaugural session. K.M. Hasan Emam, Joint Librarian conducted the training. The total number of 73 participants were from the BBA Program of ULAB took part in this training. The program was ended with a quiz contest.