eprintid: 322
rev_number: 15
eprint_status: archive
userid: 4
dir: disk0/00/00/03/22
datestamp: 2009-12-30 21:24:42
lastmod: 2016-05-27 21:04:11
status_changed: 2009-12-30 21:24:42
type: conference_item
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item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Chenoweth, Linda
title: Teaching SFX and Metalib to Inexperienced Users
ispublished: pub
subjects: sfx
subjects: meta
divisions: eluna_conf
keywords: Bibliographic Instruction
abstract: Linda Chenoweth, Reference Librarian, West Texas A&M University.

SFX and Metalib are complex software packages, which are confusing to inexperienced users. Accurate mental models can help students develop facility in using the interrelated features of journal and article finding. Mental models can also help resolve the disparities among the native interfaces that will be encountered. This poster will demonstrate a few of the techniques and analogies that can be used to help the student researcher use the software more effectively. 
date: 2008-07-31
date_type: published
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: poster
event_title: ELUNA 2008
event_location: Long Beach, Ca.
event_dates: 30 July - 1 August 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: FALSE
citation: Chenoweth, Linda (2008) Teaching SFX and Metalib to Inexperienced Users. In: ELUNA 2008, 30 July - 1 August 2009, Long Beach, Ca..
document_url: https://beta-documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/322/1/ELUNAPosterSessionThursday_TeachingSFXMetalib_poster.pdf
document_url: https://beta-documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/322/2/ELUNAPosterSessionThursday_TeachingSFXMetalib_handout.pdf