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