End-User Training in the Use of a Small Swedish Database.

Fjallbrant, Nancy; And Others

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Publication Date: 1983-Mar

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End-User Training in the Use of a Small Swedish Database.

Fjallbrant, Nancy; And Others

College and Research Libraries, v44 n2 p161-67 Mar 1983

Describes how group of end users (engineering undergraduates) at Chalmers University of Technology were trained to perform interactive online searching on BYGGDOK, a small, specialized Scandinavian database. Goals and objectives of the instruction, teaching methods, evaluation, and comparison of searching between end users and intermediaries are noted. Ten references are provided. (EJS)

Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Tables (Data), Training, Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Sweden

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