UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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The University Library offers workshops
on searching online databases via DIALOG
and BRS. These brokers offer access to
more than 300 databases. Databases
are available in the following broad
subject fields: business, education, life
sciences, medicine, physical and applied
sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Examples of individual databases are:
MANAGEMENT CONTENTS, ERIC
(Educational Resources Information
Center), BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts),
MEDLINE (Index Medicus), COMPENDEX
(Engineering Index), DISSERTATION
ABSTRACTS ONLINE, and ARTS AND
HUMANITIES SEARCH.
Faculty, students and staff are invited to
enroll to learn how to do your own online
searching, and/or to understand what is
involved when library staff does an online
database search for you. Library staff
can assist you in acquiring your own BRS
and/or DIALOG account. For additional
information, contact any campus library or
send a message using the MTS message
system to ONLINESEARCH-SERVICES.
BRS System Seminar -
This workshop is designed for novice
BRS users who have little or no previous
experience searching the databases
available on BRS. BRS Information
Technologies is a commercial company
which brokers access to bibliographic and
full-text databases.
The seminar covers basic system
commands, Boolean search techniques,
and database selection. The lecture
includes a discussion of sample search
questions and how to construct search
strategies. Online practice time is
provided.
Prerequisite: None
Dates and Times:
July 13 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: James Crooks
Registration: 'Required, send to
UniversityLibrary-Courses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge
DIALOG System Seminar -
This workshop is designed for novice
DIALOG users who have little or no
previous experience searching the -
databases available on DIALOG. DIALOG
Information Services, Inc. is a commercial
company which brokers access to
bibliographic and full-text databases.

Basic system commands, Boolean
search techniques, and database selection
are covered. The lecture includes a
discussion of sample search questions
and how to construct search strategies.
The two-hour session also provides online
practice time.
Prerequisite: None
Dates and Times:
July 14 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: James Crooks
Registration: Required, send to
UniversityLibraryCourses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge.
BRS Colleague System Seminar -
This workshop is designed for people
with existing access to BRS Colleague.
Participants learn basic system features
and Boolean search techniques, and also
receive an introduction to the MEDLINE
database.
After a short introductory lecture
participants use their own Colleague
passwords to access the system. During
the practice time, librarians are available to
provide assistance with system commands
and search strategy design.
Prerequisite: Participants should have
access to BRS/Colleague.
Dates and Times: Sessions will be
scheduled for groups of 10 or more.
Location: Alfred Taubman Medical
Library
Instructors: Librarians, Alfred Taubman
Medical Library
Registration: Required, call Barbara
Shipman to arrange classes (763-2037).
Fee: No charge.
Going Online -
The 15 minute video Going Online:
An Introduction to the World of Online
Information (published by Learned
Information, Inc.) offers a concise,
highly comprehensible overview of online
searching. It explains the online searching
process in theory and demonstrates
it in practice. Viewers -get a clear-cut
explanation of how information is stored
and transmitted.
You are led through., an actual search,
where simple command language and
Boolean logic are introduced. Although
this demonstration search focuses on
bibliographic databases, numerous others
are introduced, including numeric and
full-text. After the video, librarians will be
available to answer questions.

Prerequisite: None
Dates and Times:
July 9 ' 1:30-2:00 p.m.
Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate
Library Classroom 806
Instructor: University Library Staff
Registration: Required, send to
UniversityLibraryCourses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge.
Introduction to Pro-Cite -
Preparing bibliographies for publications
or papers is often a time consuming
task. This workshop introduces Pro-Cite,
the bibliographic information management
system that allows you to create a personal
database of bibliographic citations and to
produce perfectly formatted bibliographies
automatically. Workshop participants will
have the opportunity to build a practice
database and will learn the basic principles
of storing and retrieving information
through keywords or subject headings
using the software. The workshop uses
Zenith microcomputers; a Macintosh =
version of the software is also available.
Prerequisite: None -
Date and Time:
July 21 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: University Library staff
Registration: Required, send to
University-LibraryCourses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge.
Computerized Literature Searching
Using Wilsonline -
If you have ever searched Reader's
Guide to Periodical Literature, Social
Sciences Index, General Science Index or
any other periodical index, you may want
to consider using Wilsonline, an online
information retrieval system providing
access to 15 frequently used databases.
The workshop provides an introduction to
the principles of boolean search strategy
and to the content and commands of the
Wilsonline system. Participants will have
the opportunity for "hands-on" searching
using Zenith microcomputers.
Prerequisite: None
Date and Time:
July 23 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: University Library staff
Registration: Required, send to
UniversityLibrary-Courses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
fee: No charge.

Using the Labadie Database -
The Labadie database is a subfile
of pamphlet and serial holdings of the
Labadie Collection, which is part of
the Department of Rare Books and
Special Collections, University of Michigan
Libraries. The Collection's holdings are
mainly in the areas of Social Protest and
Reform Movements, including Labor, Gay
Liberation, Feminism, Left and Right Wing
Movements, and Anarchism.
The seminar covers basic system
commands, Boolean search techniques,
and database selection. The lecture
includes a discussion of sample search
questions and how to construct search
strategies. Online practice time is
provided.
Prerequisite: None
Dates and Times:
July 16 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: James Crooks
Registration: Required, send to
UniversityLibrary-Courses using the
MTS- message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge.
Using the RLIN Database -
RLIN (Research Libraries Information
Network) allows searches in a machine-
readable database that holds the
equivalent of the University of Michigan's
own card catalog (most materials
cataloged after 1975), catalogs of other
major research libraries, and cataloging
produced by the Library of Congress.
Searches can be made by using personal
and corporate names, titles, and subject
headings.
The seminar covers basic system
commands, Boolean search techniques,
and database selection. The lecture
includes a discussion of sample search
questions and how to construct search
strategies. Online practice time is
provided.
Prerequisite: None
Dates and Times:
-July 17 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Microcomputer
Center (fourth floor)
Instructor: Librarians, Graduate Library
Registration: Required, send to
UniversityLibrary-Courses using the
MTS message system or call 936-2408.
Fee: No charge.

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