UNLV ECM-Fall-2025-Orientation-Workshop.pptx

UNLV ECM-Fall-2025-Orientation-Workshop.pptx

1. Emergency & Crisis Management Library Orientation Library Workshop Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian [email protected]

2. What We’ll Cover Today

3. UNLV ACE Account & Barcode Registration Remember to activate your UNLV ACE Account so that you can access all library resources, including databases & e-books! Visit: https://www.it.unlv.edu/ace

4. What if you need something UNLV Libraries doesn’t own? If you are interested in material (articles, books, reports, etc.) that our library doesn’t own, we can still try to get it for you via Interlibrary Loan ! Log in with your ACE Account to request items.

5. Any Questions?

6. The Research Process

7. Where to Go

8. https://www.library.unlv.edu/

9. https://guides.library.unlv.edu/ECM

10. What emergency & crisis management issue are you interested in researching? A Few Examples: crisis communication hospitality and disaster management social media and wildfires

11. Successful Searching

12. Finding Peer Reviewed Articles

13. Depending on your topic, you may want to choose to search more than one EBSCO database at a time—such as Academic Search Premier, Criminal Justice Abstracts and/or International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center

14. Searching & finding government information Google: Type in your keywords (example: “crisis communication”, then type in site:.gov after the keywords)

15. Searching & finding information on think tanks Think tanks are institutions that generate public policy research, analysis and activity. Their output can include publications, reports, blogposts and journals.  They can be non-partisan or partisan, so you’ll need to pay attention to the goals of the organization when using the information they generate. 

16. https://guides.library.harvard.edu /hks/think_tank_search

17. Keywords: “disaster plan” and hurricanes

18. Any questions?

19. Other Tools Help with citations, bibliography software, and more!

20. APA Help! Check out this helpful link to guide you with APA citations: https://guides.library.unlv.edu/ECM/APA

21. Bibliography Software RefWorks : RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to: organize your research; create a bibliography in a variety of citation styles (including APA); create bibliographies in different document formats (such as Word or HTML), and includes citations while you write your paper.

22. Click on Create account & use your UNLV email

23. Remember…You Can Always Get Help!!