by Sigrid Kelsey and Deborah Lenares
  1. Description of Program
  2. Goals
  3. Objectives
  1. Automated Mailing program
  2. Course Content
  3. Feedback
  4. Participating Libraries
  5. Promotional Material
  6. Timeline
  7. Register your library
Introduction
Established in the Fall of 1999 to increase and improve library outreach and instruction to the faculty at UNO and LSU, we are making our email instruction program available to all LOUIS members.  This web site outlines steps to take to implement the program at your institution, text files of the email tutorials to send out, and a survey for the participants to take at the completion of the e-struction program.

Description
A selected audience1 will be invited to participate in a semester long email instruction program.  The goal of the program is to introduce participants to a range of multidisciplinary electronic library resources.  A series of lessons will be emailed to the participants.  Each week's lesson will introduce a new resource and will provide the participants with information on content, access and search strategies for the product.  The program will last a total of seven weeks.

Instruction will be provided for the following LOUIS resources: the library catalog, IAC Searchbank with a focus on Expanded Academic, Academic Universe, WebSpirs, and First Search.  Only multidisciplinary databases were chosen for inclusion at this time, because of the diverse audience.  Non-LOUIS lessons included are Web of Science, UnCover, and the electronic journals

Program Goals
The goal of the program is to introduce participants to a range of multidisciplinary electronic library resources.

Objectives
After each session the participants will be able to:

After completion of the 7 week course, the participants: Participating Libraries

1.  In the Fall of 1999, the selected audience for the e-struction course at both UNO and LSU was faculty members.  LSU had 184 participants, UNO 108.

LSU Libraries