Instruction
Miner Library provides workshops and informal instruction onsite
at the health departments of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario,
Wayne, and Wyoming counties.
These workshops are offered:
1. Internet Basics
This hands-on workshop includes:
- Internet history and jargon
- using Web browsers
- search engines and directories,
- mail-based discussion groups (Listservs)
- evaluating Web sites.
Participants have a chance to navigate theWorld Wide Web, use URLs,
save bookmarks, use search engines, and look at mail-based discussion
groups. Participants are encouraged to bring topics with them to
search on the Web. Handouts are provided.
Selected materials:
2. Medline
Medline is the National Library of Medicine's database
of abstracts of journal articles from 4,300 biomedical, nursing, and
dental journals. The National Library of Medicine provides Medline
free as PubMed . The hands-on
workshop covers PubMed and the NLM
Gateway.
Also covered:
- Preparing a search strategy,
- MeSH (Medline Subject Headings)
- Finding the full journal article
- Ordering journal articles using Loansome Doc and the Miner
Library Interlibrary Loan Service.
Participants will have a chance to prepare a search strategy and
search a topic of their choice.
Selected materials:
3. Intro to HTML for Creating Web pages
HTML is the markup language used to create documents for the World
Wide Web. Learn the basic tags and how to use them to present text
on your page. Prerequisites: You must be able to type, switch back
and forth between two active programs, and have taken the Internet
Basics class or have had significant Internet experience.
4. Advanced HTML
Once you know the basic tags for formatting text, learn how to
refine your layouts and make your web pages findable on the web.
5. Custom sessions
If you have a topic you would like us to cover in a workshop, let us know.
6. Online tutorials from other sources
For more information, contact Christine
DeGolyer (585) 273-4408.
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