End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

ISBN-13: 9780367432584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 134 str.

Ellis Mount

Opis

This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching, and examines how scientists at a major industrial research organization searched online using an information center.

Spis treści

1. Teaching Controlled Vocabulary and Natural Language to End-Users of Scientific Online and CD-ROM Databases Christina A. Brundage  2. End-User Searching in the Corporate Research Setting: A Planning Assessment at Sandia National Laboratories Linda J. Erikson and Nancy Jones Pruett  3. Promoting and Supporting End-User Online Searching in an Industrial Research Environment: A Survey of Experiences at Exxon Research and Engineering Company Patricia L. Dedert and David K. Johnson  4. The Role of Medical Libraries in End-User Searching: Teaching the MEDLINE Database to Health Care Professionals Beryl Glitz  5. A Chemical Abstracts Training Seminar for Science Librarians Bruce Slutsky  6. Courses for Special Librarianship Offered in ALA-Accredited Programs in 1987 and Implications for the Education of Science/Technology Librarians Constance M. Mellott  7. Information Sources in Supercomputing and Supercomputers Melvin G. DeSart

O autorze

Ellis Mount