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Like most other academic libraries, UCSB has established a Fall tradition of presenting orientations to library resources and services to new graduate students and faculty. The sciences and engineering librarians decided this year to focus on the electronic products and services that we can offer centering on remote access services. The library has increased the number of online databases and services accessible via the world wide web. Thousands of our undergraduate students have participated in hands-on orientations to library resources such as the databases on MELVYL Ž, the University of California's online system. We perceived a need to direct the attention of our graduate students, especially the new graduate students, and faculty to what the library offers them through electronic means. In addition to online databases, book or journal recommendations, interlibrary loan requests, and direct inter-campus borrowing requests may be accessed through the forms available on InfoSurf. However, since their introduction, the usage of these web-based forms has been relatively light compared to the in-person requests. In addition, we were eager to demonstrate enhancements such as the full text electronic journals, search capabilities of BIOSIS, and the images available on INSPEC through an IEEE/UC innovative project. In several planning conferences, the sciences and engineering librarians outlined the approach to attract as many participants as possible. We formulated our strategy. Reduced to the essentials, they are: Planning, Preparation and Publicity, Presentation and Post-workshop Evaluation.
Electronic mailing lists help librarians stay up to date with issues and activities in the profession. The number of mailing lists focusing on library-related topics is staggering -- there are 185 entries in the library and information science section of {The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences}. (Kovacs, 1995). In order to look at how useful some of these lists are, what types of topics they cover, and the general nature of these mailing lists, we subscribed to the mailing lists below for a period of one month in the late spring of 1997.
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