(E-Library - Continued from Page 4) services, require a certain level of research skill on the part of the user. The more developed the skills, the more a user can benefit from the "information age." The Library tries to help all its users learn these skills. The education process, however, still begins in the classroom. Electronic resources are learning tools that can support classroom activities. The Library hopes to foster this relationship though as a series of workshops designed to introduce faculty and staff to the electronic services available in our Library. Each workshop will focus on a particular product or series of related databases and examine what they offer and how to best use them. The intention will be to explore curriculum tie-ins, and how these products might enhance the learning process. The E-Literacies program of workshops will include the following: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - This web product provides access to a wide range of full text newspapers, journals, reports and books about news and current events, company and industry profiles, law and reference sources. Many of the periodical titles included in the database go back twenty years, an unusual depth in the electronic world. The workshop will review news and current events searching as well as taking a quick look at legal and business related datafiles.

InfoTrac Searchbank - InfoTrac provides four full text online databases. Expanded Academic offers humanities and general interest periodicals. Business and Company ASAP covers business news. The Health Reference Center targets medicine and health related journals. Books in Print with Reviews can help identify book titles useful for classes and research. The workshop will introduce basic searching techniques and examples of when these databases are a preferred research choice. Web Basics - For the beginner, this workshop will offer a quick start up on searching the web and getting the most out of what it has to offer. This will cover web basics such as search engines, home pages, bookmarks and much more. FirstSearch - FirstSearch is a collection of several databases that offer diverse kinds of resources, all presented with a common, easy to use interface. Some target educational professionals such as WorldCat for the holdings of libraries across the country. Others such as WilsonSelect offer full text periodical searching on all subjects. NetFirst locates reviewed web resources, helpful for creating lists of web sites for class assignments. The workshop will demonstrate the interface and show examples for using WilsonSelect, NetFirst, WorldCat and some of the other databases available through FirstSearch. (Continued on next page)