In addition to the documentation you find here, there are a number of people that have created their own. The best examples of institution-specific documentation tend to broadly orient users to Zotero, offer institution specific information, and connect users to local workshops, training and basic support.
If you are interested in customizing documentation for your institution or organization, these examples might be useful. You can also always feel free to copy and repurpose any content (text, images, videos, etc.) from the Zotero website to help support and promote Zotero.
Or, you can also contribute documentation directly to Zotero. Refer to Writing Documentation or join the Zotero Evangelists Google Group for more information.
Short and Sweet
A number of school libraries have put together very basic Zotero pages. Most of these pages have co-opted a bit of text from Zotero’s homepage, offering some basic installation instructions, maybe an embedded video on using Zotero and usually information on customizing Zotero to the specific institution.
One Page Guides
Other libraries have chosen to develop their own versions of Zotero’s quick start guide. In the examples below librarians at each of these institutions made their own set of screenshots, walking through what they saw as the key uses of Zotero for their patrons.
- Thing 13: Zotero citation manager: Webcam Conversation from Kate Freedman at Murdoch University.
Extensive Institution Usage
Other libraries and campus educators have developed much more extensive guides. Each of these examples attempts to provide greater detail related to issues specific to groups of researchers or library audiences at their institutions.
- George Mason University’s Libraries. George Mason offers an info guide with several tabs separating out frequently asked questions, information on workshops, and downloadable user guides.
- Emory University Libraries. Created by Erin Mooney, Instructional Librarian at Emory University Libraries.
- The University of Michigan has a general introduction to Zotero created by Julie Piacentine for the Knowledge Navigation Center as well as a guide explaining Zotero and LibX by Jacob Glenn, a librarian.
- Boston College Law School has a guide written by Chester Kozikowski.
Specialized Documentation
- If you're interested in building a LibGuide, Jason Puckett at Georgia State University has a great example that he's made available for all to reproduce or tweak for their own institutions. (with attribution please; it's covered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United State License).
- MIT Libraries and LaTeX, BibTeX. The MIT guide breaks content on Zotero into three pages. With MIT’s focus on science, it makes sense to work through using Zotero with LaTeX and BibTeX:
- George Mason University has a guide for transitioning university faculty and students to Zotero from their existing reference management tools.
- Here's how to create a workflow in Zotero from Lincoln Mullen Reference coordinator, Bob Jones University
- You can use Zotero with Flickr, as Kathryn Greenhill describes.
- An annotated Zotero Group Bibliography assignment by Brian Croxall.
- Harold Marcuse, Associate Professor of History at the University of Santa Barbara, did this presentation for historians.