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《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(39):65-75
Since 1991, the Kennedy Library has offered a 10-week, 1-credit course for undergraduates, primarily focused on accessing library catalogs and full-text databases through the Internet. Utilizing lecture/demonstrations and hands-on experiences, the students are introduced to a multitude of state, regional, national and international library catalogs; journal article databases, for both citations and full-text articles; local collections of specialized materials; and full-text bibliographic and numeric sources. In addition, the capabilities of electronic mail and computer conferences are introduced. This article will discuss the framework for the course, instructional stategies, and factors which have contributed to its success. 相似文献
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Abbas Mohamed Omar Haji Ali Haji Juliana James Manyerere 《International Information and Library Review》2020,52(1):1-9
AbstractThis study examines the promotion and knowledge of online patent literature search among students, librarians, and instructors to enhance university scientific output in Zanzibar. The study was guided by four key questions: What is the level of awareness of students, instructors and library staff about patent documents as source of information? To what extent do students and instructors access online patent databases? What is the library experience in training students about online patent literature searching?, and what are the challenges facing library and instructors in promoting patent literature search? The study used survey approach whereby questionnaire and interview were used to collect data. The recent literatures regarding online patent literature searching were also critically reviewed. A survey was conducted at two Universities in Zanzibar namely the State University of Zanzibar and Zanzibar University, whereby 20 library staff, 10 instructors and 140 undergraduate students from the School of Computing and the Faculty of Engineering were involved in this study. The findings show that more than three quarters of respondents were either partially aware or not aware at all about the existence of free online patent databases. Likewise, the majority of students had no enough skills of patent literature searching. However, usually the library organizes training on general online literature searching skills but patent literature searching was not effectively taught and a big challenge observed in this study regarding promotion of patent literature searching is inadequate patent searching skills among library and instructors. Based on the findings, the study proposed several recommendations to rectify the existing problem. 相似文献
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Diana Papaioannou Anthea Sutton Christopher Carroll Andrew Booth Ruth Wong 《Health information and libraries journal》2010,27(2):114-122
Background: Literature for a systematic review on the student experience of e‐learning is located across a range of subject areas including health, education, social science, library and information science. Objectives: To assess the merits and shortcomings of using different search techniques in retrieval of evidence in the social science literature. Methods: A conventional subject search was undertaken as the principal method of identifying the literature for the review. Four supplementary search methods were used including citation searching, reference list checking, contact with experts and pearl growing. Results: The conventional subject search identified 30 of 41 included references; retrieved from 10 different databases. References were missed by this method and a further 11 references were identified via citation searching, reference list checking and contact with experts. Pearl growing was suspended as the nominated pearls were dispersed across numerous databases, with no single database indexing more than four pearls. Conclusions: Searching within the social sciences literature requires careful consideration. Conventional subject searching identified the majority of references, but additional search techniques were essential and located further high quality references. 相似文献
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介绍了用虚拟光碟镜像服务器替代光盘镜像服务器 ,实现局域网上检索数据库的实践方法和经验 ,为图书馆更好地发挥各种数据库的作用提供借鉴 相似文献
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龙浩健 《现代图书情报技术》2007,2(3):80-82
针对学位论文数据库回溯建库过程中出现的数据结构不同、数据格式不统一、数据不规范的问题，结合本馆合并两个不同数据结构的TRS博硕士论文数据库的经验，介绍利用WORD的VBA解决问题的方案，并给出程序代码。 相似文献
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[目的/意义] 探索一条我国基层公共图书馆社会化管理建设的途径。[方法/过程] 利用案例分析法对安徽省芜湖市镜湖区图书馆社会化管理中动因、参与主体、管理内容、资金的提供以及监督评估等各要素进行分析。[结果/结论] 通过与三山区相关数据进行对比分析,明确镜湖区图书馆社会化管理取得的成效。此外,指出其存在管理制度规范缺失、参与机构积极性不高以及评价机制不完善等不足。在镜湖区图书馆社会化管理实践经验的基础上,完善相关法律制度以及评估机制是优化我国基层公共图书馆社会化管理体系的重要方法,值得推广。 相似文献
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Mona F. Smith 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1995,11(3):166-171
NTIS, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in Springfield, Virginia, is the central source for the public sale of
U.S. government-sponsored research, reports and electronic products such as bibliographic databases, numeric and statistical
data files, computer software and Compact Disk Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). NTIS is a unique U.S. government agency sustained
only by its sales revenue. 相似文献
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《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(2):172-195
Discovery tools offer users a powerful way of searching library holdings as well as external databases and indexes. They are becoming an increasingly common part of the library user experience, and research on the usability of such tools is expanding. In 2012, a mid-sized academic research library implemented Primo Discovery and Delivery by Ex Libris and conducted a diagnostic usability test to investigate how the tool is used without instruction, to discover patterns in searching behavior, and to uncover how compatible Primo is with user search behavior. This article will describe the design and implementation of the usability study. Despite some design flaws, users adapt to the tool over time and can perform effective searches. This article also provides recommendations for future usability studies in specific targeted areas where problems were detected. 相似文献
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《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(41-42):375-385
The Internet has provided OCLC with another delivery mechanism to support its chartered public purpose of ex- access to the world's information and reducing rising information costs. This network of networks has helped OCLC and its member libraries reach electronically a new audience of end users with new products and new technologies designed especially for them. OCLC offers three reference products via the Internet: The First - Search Catalog, the EPIC service, and The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials. All can be accessed using the Internet from an enduser's home, office, dorm room, laboratory, hotel room-or any other location with a modem nearby-as well as from a library. FirstSearch is a new online information service designed for library patrons, with an end-user interface that allows patrons to move through the online search process in just a few simple steps, without special training or online searching experience. The EPIC service is an online information service with a command interface designed for the advanced searcher. Both of these services offer access to a number of databases, including the OCLC Online Union Catalog, an electronic card catalog of 28 million records used by more than 16,000 libraries. 相似文献
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John Addison Steven William Glover Christine Thornton 《Health information and libraries journal》2010,27(3):191-197
Background: Most NHS library services routinely offer both mediated searches and information skills training sessions to their users. We analyse the impact of these two services on the amount of literature searching demonstrated by users of hospital‐ based library services in the north‐west of England. Methods: Data for (1) mediated literature searches, (2) number of library users attending information skills training sessions, (3) amount of library staff time devoted to information skills training, and (4) number of Athens‐authenticated log‐ins to databases were obtained from statistical returns for 2007, and analysed for significant correlations. Results: There was evidence of quite strong correlations between the two measures of training activity and the number of mediated literature searches performed by library staff. There was weaker evidence of correlation between training activity and total literature searching activity. Discussion: Attending training sessions may make some library users aware of the difficulty of complex literature searches and actually reduce their confidence to perform their own complex searches independently. The relationships between information skills training, mediated literature searches, and independent literature searching activity remain complex. 相似文献
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To design a new distance education course with an emphasis on student group work, a collaborative effort among the University of Missouri St. Louis Libraries and faculty was established. The collaborative process resulted in a more individualized service experience for library users, and the problems of course construction, using the Blackboard course management system, were shared and solved with new efficiency. The goals of the institution and individuals involved were initially successful and have expanded into a larger effort of developing new resources and collaborative efforts throughout the campus. New methods, new technologies, and new roles and responsibilities for faculty and librarians are described. As librarians assume online “course librarian” positions, significant responsibilities can be shifted to their support, and new resources can be made available to students with considerable ease—particularly via library electronic resources, databases, and electronic communication. 相似文献
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Kristine M Alpi 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2005,93(1):97-103
OBJECTIVE: The article explores the characteristics of public health information needs and the resources available to address those needs that distinguish it as an area of searching requiring particular expertise. METHODS: Public health searching activities from reference questions and literature search requests at a large, urban health department library were reviewed to identify the challenges in finding relevant public health information. RESULTS: The terminology of the information request frequently differed from the vocabularies available in the databases. Searches required the use of multiple databases and/or Web resources with diverse interfaces. Issues of the scope and features of the databases relevant to the search questions were considered. CONCLUSION: Expert searching in public health differs from other types of expert searching in the subject breadth and technical demands of the databases to be searched, the fluidity and lack of standardization of the vocabulary, and the relative scarcity of high-quality investigations at the appropriate level of geographic specificity. Health sciences librarians require a broad exposure to databases, gray literature, and public health terminology to perform as expert searchers in public health. 相似文献
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The MELVYL MEDLINE project resulted in the addition of a full five-year subset of MEDLINE to the University of California's (UC) MELVYL online union catalog. As one of the nation's largest MEDLINE end-user searching systems, MELVYL MEDLINE provides online bibliographic access to the biomedical journal literature for all UC personnel at over seventy library sites or by remote access. This paper summarizes the project's accomplishments, reports MELVYL MEDLINE use and its impact on library services, and provides insights for other end-user search systems. The project serves as a model for adding databases to the MELVYL catalog and demonstrates the potential for use by other disciplines of a specialized database when readily accessible. Evaluation results report high user satisfaction and high usage. However, many advanced searching features of the interface are little used by searchers. Effects on library services include marked increases in reference transactions and interlibrary loans, with significant declines in mediated search services. Future MELVYL MEDLINE enhancements include matching search retrievals to journal locations, linkage to an online document delivery system, and consideration of building a superset of databases by combining MELVYL MEDLINE with citations from another database in the MELVYL catalog. 相似文献
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公共图书馆业务统计工作探讨 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
统计工作意义重大,各项统计数据是图书馆决策、规划、管理、改进工作的前提,是图书馆事业证明社会价值、树立社会形象、争取政策支持、进行宏观调控的基础。文章强调了统计工作的重要性,介绍了南山图书馆和深圳公共图书馆界的统计工作实践,以实例彰显了统计工作的巨大价值。同时也指出了我国公共图书馆界统计工作中存在的一些问题,如统计工作各自为政、基层图书馆统计欠缺、统计体系不健全、统计分析缺乏、统计意识淡薄等等,对公共图书馆该如何进行统计工作进行了探讨,呼吁图书馆界重视统计问题,建议公共图书馆统计工作应该标准化、规范化、常规化,并重视基层图书馆的统计。 相似文献
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J L Dorsch M A Frasca M L Wilson M L Tomsic 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1990,78(1):38-44
The formulation of clinical decisions based on evidence requires the ability to locate information and evaluate it critically. A ten-week critical appraisal course for third-year medical students, taught cooperatively by library and Department of Medicine faculty, integrates education in the selection, evaluation, and application of information to patient care. The course is distinctive in that information management skills are taught by a multidisciplinary team in a problem-based format as part of the compulsory medical curriculum. Medical faculty provided instruction in reading and evaluating research methodology, as well as statistical analyses in published reports, using clinical scenarios and related journal articles at weekly sessions. Library faculty provided instruction in locating pertinent research on a sample clinical problem using standard printed and computerized indexes and local library resources, and presented criteria for selecting the most useful and significant works from those retrieved. Library faculty also met individually with students to provide instruction in online literature searching. Based on formal evaluation and informal feedback, the course was well received; it effectively presents the literature search as an integral part of critical appraisal of the medical literature and of the clinical decision-making process. 相似文献
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Purpose: To characterise the training needs of those providing clinical question answering services (CQAS). Participants: Seventeen specialist UK staff working in CQAS, 21 from general health library UK staff and eight international respondents. Methodology: A literature review examined documented training needs for CQAS staff. A follow‐up questionnaire examined prior training and experience and identified training needs for the surveyed staff. Results/outcomes: Ninety per cent of CQAS staff had worked in health services for 3 years or longer. Training received in preparation for the CQAS role comprised literature searching (including the PRECEPT/ADEPT and cochrane library courses) and critical appraisal. Skills considered ‘essential’ for clinical question answering were ‘literature searching’ (100%), ‘understanding the context of clinical questions’, ‘bibliographic databases’, ‘evidence‐based sources’ and ‘the Internet’ (all 93%). Main training needs for specialist CQAS staff include management and organisation of CQAS and technical skills in interpretation and presentation. Discussion/conclusion: CQAS staff require a formal training programme. Most CQAS staff considered that this should be a mandatory requirement. 相似文献
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图书馆数据库使用中规避知识产权风险研究 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
针对图书馆数据库使用中涉及的知识产权问题,通过相关典型案例进行分析,从这些案例中寻求规避数据库使用中知识产权风险的办法,寻找维护图书馆权益的经验和对策,提出了依据我国数据库现行的法律保护制度,着重解决图书馆数据库使用中的突出问题,力求在图书馆数据库使用中尽可能规避各种知识产权侵权风险,维护自身权益。 相似文献
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Sterling Coleman Jr 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(4):157-180
This work is an annotated bibliography that consists of articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, reports, etc. published in various library and information science forums on the subject of librarianship in the Maghreb. The goal of preparing this work is to provide a list of citations with abstracts that librarians, library students, and library scholars can use to perform research within this subject area and further the body of knowledge. The research methodology that was used to find these citations involved searching the database versions of ERIC, Dissertations Abstracts Online, and Library Literature within the online public access catalog of the Auburn University library system. It also involved searching the online databases of Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), British Education Index, andEducation Abstracts within the DIALOG database as well as the respective print versions of these resources. While this work is by no means an exhaustive critique of the entire Maghrebi library and information science literature, it does strive to be comprehensive in terms of its country-by-country analysis of librarianship and information science within the region. In providing a citation for a non-English language work, the English equivalent of the title of that work will be given next to the non-English title. 相似文献