Books and Articles introduces students to the Library's online catalogue, presents an overview of periodical literature and focuses on one of our more popular databases such as the Expanded Academic Index. Searching the Web covers the structure of the World Wide Web and suggests strategies searchers can use to find information. Students also learn how to save files to a disk, and to send files using E-mail. Foundations provides the basic computer use skills for doing library research. Students practice by searching one of the Library databases and saving their results to a disk.
Connections teaches students how to use campus E-mail.
The workshop covers the very basic logon commands, composing, sending, reading, and deleting messages. Students practice searching one of the Library databases and sending their results via E-mail. Lexis-Nexis Universe is one of the largest databases in the world. This workshop, intended for the more sophisticated researcher, teaches students how to find business, legal, and news information from around the globe. Dow Jones Interactive is one of the premier databases for management, marketing, and industry research.