The purpose of these guidelines is to assist librarians in providing students and faculty with appropriate information about computerized sources of information, particularly national online and compact disc (CD-ROM) databases. The guidelines offer ideas for brief, medium-length, and long presentations on the use of online searches, including information on their advantages and disadvantages, the costs of searches, strategies for initiating searches, and formulating a search strategy. An example of a printout from a search of a search request form are attached. (GL)