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Banzai! With a lot of help I have managed to work out Zotero. It's just me and not Zotero's fault... My essay writing days are long behind me (in the days before computers) so I have never submitted word processed essays or used Endnote. This means that Zotero was a little challenging to start with. However, after my tutorial this morning "By jove I've got it!" to paraphrase Professor Higgins.
Zotero provides lots of online help, you just need to be a bit patient and spend some time navigating around the site. I managed to download a tailor-made bibliography dervied from a Newton search and to transfer it to a word document.
Zotero takes out all the hassle out of citations and it works like magic. It is a brilliant tool for scholars, graduate students and undergrad essay writers. You can build up different book lists and store them in folders - a great way to organise your research in different fields and to have the information at your fingertips. It should definitely be promoted within the University, possibly through training sessions at the UL, in the Departments and by the Computing Service (I have found that students do not look to their College library for this kind of training - I have offered training sessions but have met with a very lukewarm response). It is a free service which is a tremendous bonus for students. I am looking into ways of using Zotero in the library and it could be useful for building up subject specific accessions lists for targeted distribution. I'm so glad to have been introduced to this application.
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