"Designing a Computerized Training Room for the Library" by Donna M. Ring

Selected Works of Patricia Fravel VanderMeer

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Designing a Computerized Training Room for the Library

Special Libraries (1994)

Donna M. Ring, Western Michigan University
Patricia F Vander Meer, Western Michigan University

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Abstract

Addresses issues in designing or enhancing a computerized training room for teaching end-users how to search online databases. These include environmental aesthetics and practical considerations such as lighting, sound, wiring, furniture, and equipment and software selection. How to design the room to suit multiple purposes and to accommodate future needs is described.

Keywords

Facility Planning,
Library Facilities,
Online Searching,
Libraries

Disciplines

Information Literacy,
Instructional Media Design and
Library and Information Science

Publication Date

Summer 1994

Citation Information

Donna M. Ring and Patricia F Vander Meer. "Designing a Computerized Training Room for the Library" Special Libraries Vol. 85 Iss. 3 (1994)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patricia_vandermeer/10/