We offer periodic live webinars for Zotero users and librarians on using and teaching Zotero. All sessions are free to join and will be announced on this page. Recordings will also be available here after the session.

Getting Started With Zotero

Wednesday, February 8
09:00 UTC / 4 a.m. ET
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Wednesday, February 22
15:00 UTC / 10 a.m. ET
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Thursday, February 23
20:00 UTC / 3 p.m. ET
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Learn how to use Zotero, a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. We will cover Zotero basics including downloading and installing software, adding items to your Zotero library, reading and annotating PDFs with Zotero, organizing your Zotero library, and generating citations and bibliographies. This 60-minute session is designed for people who have never used Zotero before and Zotero beginners. While participants are welcome to follow along on their own computer, this session will not include hands-on technology help; for direct user support, please consult the Zotero documentation and forums.

What’s New in Zotero 6

Monday, February 13
10:00 UTC / 5 a.m. ET
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Tuesday, February 21
14:30 UTC / 9:30 a.m. ET
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Tuesday, February 28
20:00 UTC / 3 p.m. ET
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Zotero 6 was released in March 2022 and represents the biggest upgrade in Zotero’s history. In this 60-minute session, we’ll review some of the new features in Zotero 6 that you may have missed, including a built-in PDF reader, advanced annotation and citation tools, and lots more. This session will not include hands-on technology help; for direct user support, please consult the Zotero documentation and forums.

Teaching Zotero to Undergraduate Students (for librarians)

Tuesday, February 7
13:00 UTC / 8 a.m. ET
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Wednesday, March 1
21:00 UTC / 4 p.m. ET
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What are the research and citation management needs of undergraduate students, and how does Zotero fit in? In this 60-minute interactive session, we’ll share tips and strategies for teaching Zotero to novice researchers, based on the instructor’s experience teaching Zotero library instruction sessions at a small liberal arts college and a research university. While this session is specifically designed for librarians teaching Zotero, anyone is welcome to join.

Brendan O’Connell is an Outreach Coordinator with Zotero. He is an academic librarian by training, with many years of experience in higher education and technology, most recently at Smith College and North Carolina State University in the United States. His work as a librarian has included teaching Zotero to hundreds of students, faculty, and fellow librarians in many different formats and settings.

Brendan’s work with Zotero focuses on a variety of outreach and engagement efforts, including teaching webinars to train librarians to better teach Zotero to students and faculty at their home institutions, as well as creating tutorial materials and leading training for general academic users. He is passionate about open-source software and protecting user privacy, values long held in common between libraries and Zotero.

If you have ideas about how Zotero could better engage with librarians and its user community, or there are specific webinars, training materials, or videos you’d like to see, get in touch: outreach@zotero.org.