The Madden Library has a well established program of instruction designed to meet the Information Competence mandate of the CSU and to serve the needs of our students. Choosing a Topic helps students select and refine a research topic for their papers or presentations. UNIV 20T , UNIV 1 and SPCH 3. 2. 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.