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N G Tomaiuolo

Publications and source records attributed to N G Tomaiuolo.

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PubMed1993

Practice locally, search globally.

The National Library of Medicine introduced the Grateful Med software package for accessing its databases over six years ago. Many new features have been added to the program since its inception in 1986. These major improvements enable health professionals to gain a more user friendly access to the biomedical literature of the National Library of Medicine than ever before. The software enhancements aid the end-user in performing searches that will retrieve material with greater specificity and accuracy. Grateful Med provides a time-saving, cost-effective means of equal access to the medical literature regardless of the user's physical location or lack of access to other resources.

Grateful Med↗
PubMed1991

Teaching end users the CD Plus MEDLINE menu mode in thirty minutes.

Guidance through the CD Plus menu mode is warranted and has proved worthwhile. The Stowe Library's Information Services Department offers instruction once per week; the session usually lasts thirty minutes but may run longer if the attendees are particularly astute or enthusiastic. Individuals or classes may also request instruction at times that are better suited to their schedules. Librarians who search CD Plus on a daily basis will undoubtedly become facile with the direct searching mode. New end users will probably enjoy more success by using the menu mode. The menu mode does not provide documentation; therefore, a modified text of this article including the illustrations might be considered an adequate print manual for the menus. However, many of the system capabilities cannot be used unless they are taught by an experienced operator. Such a basic but necessary introduction requires approximately one-half hour. The pace will be brisk, and time for extraneous experimentation is unlikely. A successful instruction session is a result of preparation rather than improvisation. If the specific interests of the clientele in attendance are known in advance, a reworking of the examples would be appropriate. Although no formal evaluation of this instruction technique has been made, most attendees express an appreciation and understanding of the system's capabilities by the end of the session. Tangible feedback comes from seeing an end user who had participated in instruction return to the workstation on an ongoing basis to search the database successfully.

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Accessing nursing resources on the Internet.

Nurses and other health professionals have recognized the exponential increase in published nursing, medical, scientific, and allied health literature. The Internet is adding more information to that expanse. Information specialists and librarians have noted that although a virtually limitless range of health information is present on the Internet's discussion lists, file transfer protocol, telnet, gopher, and World Wide Web sites, computer users are just beginning to use the "information super-highway." This article describes the uses of the Internet while providing practical information addressing questions of connecting to the network and searching its most useful features.

Computer Communication Networks↗