Courses organized by the Libraries of the Engineering Pole - Padova
website:
 http://www.unipd.it/inge/corsi_2006.htm (in Italian)
Start Date: ?
End Date: ?
Typology
:
courses for university students - academic library initiative

Institution:
Central Library of the
Engineering Faculty
Padua University
Padova

Address:
Biblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Ingegneria
Università degli studi di Padova
via Loredan 20
35131 Padova
Tel. 039 49 8275415
Fax. 039 49 8275417

Information about the courses:
Central Library of the Engineering Faculty
tel. 049 8275416

Library of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
tel. 049 8276755

Inter-Departmental Library of Information Engineering and Electric Engineering
tel. 049 8277692

Free courses for university students

Target group: university students (esp. Engineering students)
Level:
basic

The Libraries of the Engineering Pole have organized for May 2006 the following courses:

·     Library Services & Electronic Catalogues (2 hours) The course provides information about the libraries' services and the main methods of bibliographic research through the catalogues of Padua University; useful course slides are available at: http://www.unipd.it/inge/Slide_corso_Biblioteca.ppt; http://www.unipd.it/inge/presentazioneopac.ppt; http://www.unipd.it/inge/Capere_2005.ppt.

·     University Databases (2 hours) – The course provides participants, through examples and search strategies, with the competencies necessary to consult the main disciplinary databases (EI Compendex, Inspec, WSS - Eurofile); useful course slides are available at: http://www.unipd.it/inge/Banche_dati_settembre_05.ppt; http://www.unipd.it/inge/Guida%20WSS.ppt.

·    Search tools on the Internet (2 hours) – The course provides Engineering students with the main search tools and strategies for retrieving and evaluating information; useful course slides are available at: http://www.unipd.it/inge/Slides%20Corso%20Internet%202006.pdf.


Keywords: library instruction for university students - courses for Engineering students - bibliographic research - library services - electronic catalogues – university databases – scientific databases for Engineering -  information searching – information searching on the Internet – search tools – search strategies – information retrieval – evaluation of information

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