Lister Hill Letter
Newsletter of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at UAB

September/October 1997

Library Education Classes

Fall quarter is under way, and your plate is filled with classes, research and meetings, not to mention other extracurricular activities. Should you spare the time for a library orientation class?

"Absolutely," says Martha Verchot, Lister Hill Library Education Coordinator. "In the long run, library classes are time-savers, teaching you how to find the specific drop of information you need among the vast oceans of information available, with a minimum of time and frustration."

Ms. Verchot is responsible for coordinating the library classes offered every month, ranging from the general library tours to the hands-on database classes such as Ovid Medline or Current Contents. (See last paragraph.)

Lister Hill also offers at least one Worldwide Web class for those venturing onto the information superhighway for the first time, or for those who have encountered the frustration and tedium of trying to find their particular "needle in a haystack" via the Web search engines.

Lister Hill also provides course-specific classes and tours such as the recent Ovid Medline classes for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine students.

Current scheduled class offerings include: Ovid Web & Windows versions (Medline,CINAHL, AIDSLINE, HealthStar, etc.); Current Contents; Community of Science (grants, Federal Register, research expertise database, etc.); Introduction to WWW; and orientation tours of the library. With the exception of the tours, classes are generally taught in the Library's electronic classroom on the Ground Floor. Call 934-2230 for more information or to register.