End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

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Learn how sci-tech libraries are encouraging and training end-users to do their own online searching of sci-tech databases. In sci-tech disciplines, efforts to increase collegiate end-user training and on-the-job training in searching are more prevalent in many colleges and business/government organizations. This timely book includes information on how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user ...
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Overview

Learn how sci-tech libraries are encouraging and training end-users to do their own online searching of sci-tech databases. In sci-tech disciplines, efforts to increase collegiate end-user training and on-the-job training in searching are more prevalent in many colleges and business/government organizations. This timely book includes information on how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization, examines how the scientists at a major industrial research organization have begun to do more online searching with the encouragement of the information center, and explores the proactive role that medical libraries have taken in training health care professionals to search MEDLINE.
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Contents Introduction
  • Teaching Controlled Vocabulary and Natural Language to End-Users of Scientific Online and CD-ROM Databases
  • End-User Searching in the Corporate Research Setting: A Planning Assessment at Sandia National Laboratories
  • Promoting and Supporting End-User Online Searching in an Industrial Research Environment: A Survey of Experiences at Exxon Research and Engineering Company
  • The Role of Medical Libraries in End-User Searching: Teaching the MEDLINE Database to Health Care Professionals
  • A Chemical Abstracts Training Seminar for Science Librarians
  • Courses for Special Librarianship Offered in ALA-Accredited Programs in 1987 and Implications for the Education of Science/Technology Librarians
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