[WEB4LIB] helping users find the appropriate database

[Mark Allan]

I'll post what everyone has sent me since last Friday a bit later this 
afternoon.

Mark

At 01:32 PM 5/12/2005, you wrote:
>We'd like to revamp the database area of our web site and I would be
>interested in any strategies that have been developed to help users find
>the best resource to match their search needs.
>
>Are the tried and true methods of subject headings and a-z lists the
>best way to do this or is there something better?
>
>When faced with Business Source Elite or Master File Premier, what's a
>patron to do?
>
>I know that asking a librarian is always the preferred method. But if
>you had to offer a second option, what would it be?
>
>
>--
>Robert Long, Library Systems Administrator
>Talbot County Free Library
>410 822 1626 (v)
>410 820 8217 (f)

Mark

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Mark Allan
Head, Reference Unit
Porter Henderson Library
Angelo State University
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(325) 942-2511
(325) 942-2198 (FAX)
mark.allan at angelo.edu
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