Outline for A

Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, MeL Training Materials

This service is funded in part by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan. Additional project support comes from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Draft 9/7/2010 SR/KB

ESSENTIALS A - OUTLINE FOR WEBEX

3 hours (break time adds 15 minutes)

1. Set up and introductions - approximately 20 minutes

Trainer – introduce yourself

Teach the webex functionality (we will have a separate document for this to refer to for all classes)

Class introduction – find out who is in the class

Review what we will cover – outline of the content and goals

Ask them to have the printouts that were emailed to them on their desks for reference.

2. Gale databases – 60 minutes, then have class do exercises

3. Newspapers – 25 minutes, then have class do exercises

break time

4. SIRS Discoverer – 30 minutes, then have class do exercises

5. OmniFile Full Text Select - 30 minutes

6. MeL Gateways, Michigana, and Featured Resources, MORE – 20 minutes - no exercises

7. Evaluations and wrap up – 10 minutes – remind them to PLEASE respond to the evaluation survey from the workshop email