Effective Instruction for Searching CD-ROM Indexes.

Bostian, Rebecca; Robbins, Anne

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ERIC Number: EJ405665

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Publication Date: 1990

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Effective Instruction for Searching CD-ROM Indexes.

Bostian, Rebecca; Robbins, Anne

Laserdisk Professional, v3 n1 p14-17 Jan 1990

Describes an experiment that examined the relationship between successful searching of CD-ROM databases by undergraduate students and various types of instruction provided by the library staff. The findings indicate that the only level of instruction that resulted in a significant difference was a live demonstration of searches. (six references) (CLB)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermode Differences, Library Instruction, Optical Data Disks, Search Strategies, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Users (Information)

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