 I'm Todd Quinn. I'm a librarian here at the University of New Mexico and today we're going to talk about the graphic managers and what they do. So say you have a group of books that you've read, you put the notes down. Maybe you have, you know, say 10 articles and maybe two reports and you're going to put all this into a paper that you're writing. But now you have the 10 articles that are in one folder, the reports on another, you have these books, you have notes on paper, it's all over the place. So what do you do? So you use a bibliographic manager and what does that do? It's a piece of software, most of them are free and while you're looking for literature it allows you to collect content. So articles, reports, it automatically collects metadata for most of the content and what I mean by metadata, that's the author of the title, the abstract, etc. It allows you to organize all that content into various folders. So you can have five folders for all your content, one for each report or one for each article you're writing, etc. And what's really nice for each item that you have that you've collected, you can add your notes. So in one location you can have the metadata for each item, you can have the PDF connected to it, you have your notes also there. And then what you get to do is incorporate it into your writing. So say you're writing your paper and you want to do an in-text citation, you take all this information with your manager open and you incorporate it. So maybe you grab one of the notes that you had, you paste it in there and clean it up the language a little bit and then you want to cite it, in-text, you call it up, pull it in and it will do the citation for you in the style of your choosing. You can do this over and over again and at the very end you can create your bibliography. So then it has all that information in the style you want. So in one location with a big demographic manager, you have all your content, you have all your notes, it's organized, and it incorporates into Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Now the most popular ones out there are Zotero and Note and then Delay. There's others but these are the three most popular ones. Now let's go take a look at them.