We want to make sure you are familiar with the databases so you can help your patrons!
Request "At Your Location" On-Site Database Training Sessions!
Scott Kehoe, Consultant/Trainer, would be happy to come to your library for group-training sessions on the NMRLS sponsored databases listed below. NMRLS Databases:
- Bigchalk eLibrary
- Gale Infotrac
- Grolier Online
- netLibrary
- NewsBank
- OCLC Worldcat
- ReferenceUSA
Contact Scott Kehoe to request any of these workshops at your location.
- Perhaps you have delayed in promoting the databases on your web site because it is too complicated for you!
That's OK, you can request "At Your Location" training to help set up your Library's Online Database Web Page!
Presenting the Online Databases to end-users in a clear manner for access from in the library and from home isn't as easy as one would think! Many libraries offer databases in addition to those provided by NMRLS. Other libraries wish to focus in on 2 or 3 databases for more specialized research. In either case, presentation of the electronic resources, with up-to-date URL's, in your library's web site format, is the goal.
Susan Grabski would be happy to assist any library with the set-up of their library's Online Database page. Contact Susan Grabski to request this workshop at your location.
- The simplest way to promote home access to the databases is to offer a link on your web site to Answers..To Go! at http://www.nmrls.org/answers/index.html.
Home access to the online databases is a valuable service to your patrons. All they need is their library card!
Some libraries are still linking to either the NMRLS front page or the internal page on "Online Databases". We urge you to link to the Answers page! All of the information on that site is intended with the patron in mind! Our Web site is intended for use by our librarians and could unintentionally confuse the patron.
