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Rossouw, S. F. – 1980
The background of online information retrieval at the Institute for Medical Literature (IML), South Africa's center for providing such services to the country's biomedical community, is briefly sketched as an introduction to this description of IML's program to train medical librarians in online searching techniques. Materials used in the training…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Retrieval, Instructional Materials, Librarians
Download full textvan Brakel, Pieter A. – 1996
The Internet and its features such as e-mail; listservs; FTP and Telnet; navigators such as Archie, gophers, and the World Wide Web; and Web search engines have had a profound effect on the nature of online systems. This paper discusses the effect the Internet might have in the way online searching should be taught. The paper provides background…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Design
