These databases include resource material from journal articles of all types, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, books, patents, chemical structures, numeric values of physical variables, and others. Attendees also receive instruction on the critical evaluation of sources. Librarians have worked with faculty on course-specific instruction from virtually all departments. These searches routinely retrieve an order of magnitude more information than single database searching. This greatly enhances the ability to make correlations and see trends.
OVID presentations are normally part of the Dialog and other workshops.
Patrons are shown how to design and store subject search strategies, authors they wish to follow, and journals they desire to keep up with. These stored strategies are matched against weekly database updates. Faculty and librarians collaborate on scheduled sessions in which faculty and class come to the library during the class period to learn about library resources essential to completing an assignment or furthering their education in their major. Librarians are also available for classroom visits to discuss library services and resources.