Business school has a multimedia tutorial [a screencast, essentially] on using online library apps (e.g. for B830).
Link from course page to multimedia resources on How to do a literature search (essentially slides with audio and with mixed in screencasts shwing how to use a particular catalogue (e.g. Business Source Premier)] Rather than providing a generic info skill training product (e.g. Safari) the idea of these training packages is to provide specific training on using specific databases appropriate for particular courses.
Student feedback - students would like interactive online tutorials. E.g. after a screencast demo, let students try out a real database search.
Enocompass and LinkFinder Plus working in tandem (Encompass providing federated search, and LinkFinderPlus then linking through to online version of paper, where available. However, for some databases, it seems that the LFP will take you to a page where you still have to do work (e.g. it will take user to a Journal page and they then have to find the article by hand - yuck!).
Click through from course page straight to an ebook. Students can look at each page, but limited as to what they can print off at any one time (e.g. print a page at a time). Many ebooks are searchable (often much quicker then using an index). Ebooks limited as to number of concurrent users (e.g. typically 2-5 users). The "loan period" can also be specified (e.g. on www.netlibrary.com log a book out to a student for a couple of hours.
ROUTES embedding via XML feed into course web pages (e.g. B853).
Posted by ajh59 at April 26, 2006 12:17 PM