Community Spotlight: Jason Puckett
188BET靠谱吗If you follow Zotero on Twitter,Jason Puckett‘s name may already be familiar to you.188BET靠谱吗Below is our inaugural Spotlight interview with Jason, Zotero evangelist and author ofa new book188BET靠谱吗on Zotero published this month.
Name and Occupation:
Jason Puckett, Communication Librarian, Georgia State University.
188BET靠谱吗How long have you been using Zotero?
For about five years now.188BET靠谱吗I used to teach and use Endnote, but tried out Zotero while in library school and quickly became a convert.
188BET靠谱吗How do you teach and promote Zotero?
188BET靠谱吗Basically, I'm the point of first contact for anyone at GSU who needs help learning Zotero.I teach regular in-person workshops during the academic year.188BET靠谱吗I usually include at least a brief Zotero segment in most of my regular course-based information literacy classes.I've taught online workshops using Elluminate and other presentation software, for GSU and as a guest speaker for other institutions.I've also taught a four-week online continuing education course for librarians for Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, using Moodle.
188BET靠谱吗What are some projects you've done using Zotero?
I'm the author of the new book188BET靠谱吗Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educatorsfrom ACRL Publications.188BET靠谱吗It goes into the basic and advanced functionality of Zotero, and even has some information on including feeds in third party apps.188BET靠谱吗Additionally, at GSU Library we recently used a Zotero group to allow several people to work together compiling a bibliography of faculty publications.I'm using it collaboratively to pool sources with an article co-author.And naturally, I've used it for every article, bibliography and publication list I've created in the last few years.
Anything planned for the future?
Nothing definite, aside from the paper I'm researching right now.188BET靠谱吗I'm excited to see what happens as the new API allows Zotero to connect with other applications.I'm already trying out theZotpress pluginon myWordPress site, and it's working great so far.188BET靠谱吗I'm thinking about a possible digital exhibit I'd like to put together this summer, partly inspired by the New Orleans Research Collaborative site, and I'd certainly use Zotero to build the bibliographies for that.