One-day in-person workshop.

Basic Content:

• Introduction to MS Word Interface: Navigating the Ribbon and understanding key featuresrelevant to academic writing and professional correspondence.
• Document Setup for Academic Writing: Setting up margins, pagination, and choosingappropriate fonts and spacing for theses and academic papers.
• Creating and Formatting Documents: Emphasizing text formatting techniques that enhancereadability and professionalism in theses writing and formal letters.
• Styles, Templates and Themes: Using and customizing styles for headings, subheadings, andtext to ensure consistency in thesis documents. Introduction to themes for creating visuallycohesive letters.

Intermediate Content:

• Advanced Document Structuring: Techniques for managing long documents, including the useof section breaks for different chapters and appendices in thesis writing.
• References and Citations: Utilizing Word’s reference management features to insert citations,manage sources, and create bibliographies according to various academic styles (e.g., APA,MLA, Chicago).
• Table of Contents and Figures, Indexing and Cross Referencing: Automatically generating atable of contents and indexes, crucial for navigating long academic documents like thesis.Cross referencing headings, sections and page numbers for automatic updating.
• Professional Letter Writing: Advanced formatting and layout techniques for creatingprofessional and academic letters, including letterhead design, alignment, and spacing.
• Collaboration and Revision Tools: Leveraging Track Changes, Comments, and the Review tabfor collaborative thesis editing and letter review, facilitating peer review, and advisorfeedback; using Grammerly.

This tailored content ensures that academic librarians are well-equipped to support students andfaculty in the critical tasks of thesis writing and professional correspondence.

One-day in-person workshop.

Basic Content:

• Excel Basics: Understanding workbooks, worksheets, and basic data entry.
• Formulas and Functions: Introduction to common formulas and functions (SUM, AVERAGE,MIN, MAX).
• Basic Data Analysis: Sorting and filtering data to find specific information.
• Creating Charts: Visualizing data with basic charts (bar, line, pie).

Intermediate Content:

• Advanced Formulas: More complex functions (VLOOKUP, IF statements) and theirapplications.
• Data Validation: Ensuring data integrity through validation rules.
• Conditional Formatting: Highlighting data based on specific criteria.
• PivotTables and PivotCharts: Summarizing data findings and trends for reports andpresentations.
• Importing and Exporting Data: Import variously formatted data files for data analysis.Exporting analysed data files in different formats for compatibility with different platforms.

One-day in-person workshop.

Basic Content:

• Getting Started with PowerPoint: Understanding the interface, creating new presentations,and choosing themes.
• Creating Slides: Adding and formatting text, inserting images, and using shapes.
• Adding Transitions and Animations: Making presentations more dynamic with entry and exitanimations.
• Presenting: Tips for effective presentations, including speaker notes and rehearsal features.

Intermediate Content:

• Advanced Slide Design: Customizing slide backgrounds, working with SmartArt, and leveragingmaster slides for consistent formatting.
• Embedding Media: Inserting and editing video and audio for more engaging presentations.
• Interactive Elements: Adding action buttons and hyperlinks for non-linear presentations.
• Collaboration and Sharing: Sharing presentations, collaborating in real-time, and deliveringpresentations remotely.
• For each module, hands-on exercises, real-world examples specific to library managementand academic research, and interactive Q&A sessions will ensure that emerging academiclibrarians not only understand these tools but also can apply them effectively in their workenvironments.