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Training Sessions at the Interior Library
The U.S. Department of the Interior Library offers regular training sessions for U.S. Department of the Interior employees.
Because of limited space, each training session is limited to a maximum of six people. Please RSVP
by e-mail at library@nbc.gov at least one week before the program if you are interested in attending any of the sessions
listed below.
Additional training sessions will be posted as they are scheduled. Please check this page regularly for any changes or updates.
Name and Description of Program |
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The U.S. Congressional Serial Set -- Digital Edition: Introduction and New Features
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents and Journals of
the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, constitutes an incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects
of American history. The Serial Set has now been digitized by Readex and is available through the DOI Library's web site. This
class will introduce you to this valuable online resource and provide attendees with helpful hints for searching the treasures
of this collection. This program will be conducted by a Readex trainer. |
Wednesday January 14, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Westlaw: Introduction and New Features
Thomson/West's Westlaw legal and legislative online database provides access to state and federal statutes, case law materials,
public records, and other legal resources. The West Key Number System, provided on Westlaw, is the master classification system
of U.S. law, claimed to be "the only recognized legal taxonomy". Its 16,000 databases not only contain legal information, but
access to hundreds of full-text newspaper and magazine articles as well. In this session, a Westlaw training professional will
teach you how to utilize Westlaw for your reference and research needs, introducing you to these databases and highlighting
newly added features that make Westlaw an even more user-friendly research tool. |
Wednesday January 21, 2009 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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EBSCOHost Online Databases: Introduction and New Features
EBSCOHost's online databases provide access to tables of contents, citations, abstracts, and full-text articles for over
thousands of scholarly, trade and general-interest journals. The current databases subscribed to by the DOI Library, the
Science & Technology Collection, Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE Premier, Legal Collection,
and GreenFILE, cover a wide range of subjects of interest to the Department of the Interior, including biology, botany,
geology, history, law, and zoology. Each database is updated daily. Attendees to this session will learn how to effectively
search these EBSCOHost databases to find needed articles and will learn of newly added, user-friendly features that have
enhanced their capabilities. |
Tuesday February 10, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Compiling a Federal Legislative History: A Step-by-Step Example
Those interested in learning the process involved in compiling an official federal legislative history will find this program
invaluable. A specific Public Law will be the focus of a step-by-step piecing together of a legislative history, using print
resources such as the U.S. Statutes at Large, Congressional Record, and U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
Online sources of federal legislative history information will also be highlighted. This program will be conducted by DOI
Law Librarian Maureen Booth. |
Thursday February 19, 2009 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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The Congressional Hearings and Research Digital Collections: Introduction and New Features
Learn how to access and use two collections offered by LexisNexis: the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, covering
congressional hearings dating back to 1824; and the Congressional Research Digital Collection, offering digitized copies of
Congressional Research Service (and earlier Legislative Reference Service) reports back to 1916, as well as congressional
Committee Prints back to 1830. Both of these collections are fully searchable through one online search screen. Attendees
will learn search techniques that can be used to locate digitized copies of these materials essential in conducting thorough
legislative history research. This program will be conducted by a LexisNexis trainer. |
Wednesday March 4, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Advanced Legal Research on LexisNexis
This training program builds on techniques presented in the "LexisNexis: Introduction and New Features" class, emphasizing
time efficient and cost effective searching. Attendees will learn how to bypass menu screens using short cuts, narrow searching
with segments, focus on specific word(s) within your original search, and refine searches with advanced connectors. This program
will be conducted by a LexisNexis trainer. |
Wednesday March 18, 2009 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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HeinOnline: Introduction and New Features
HeinOnline is the world's largest image-based collection of law and law-related material with more than 75 million pages
of material stored digitally. HeinOnline is bringing previously unavailable content to the online research community in
a fully-searchable, image-based format. In this Library training session, you will learn how to use HeinOnline to search
for materials in their Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, Statutes
at Large Library, and the Department of the Interior Library, just to name some of the sources available. Each
library contains documents dating from the inception of publications contained in the library, dating as far back as the mid-19th
century, fully searchable and available in PDF format. This program will be taught by William S. Hein III, grandson of the founder
of the company. |
Wednesday April 8, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Useful Federal Resources on the Web
While the Internet can be a great resource for federal documents, it is often difficult to know what reliable sites to go in
order to find the official materials that you are looking for. Join DOI Reference Librarian Jennifer Klang on this tour of
valuable and reliable sources of federal information on the Internet. Web sites from the Library of Congress, the Government
Printing Office, the University of Oklahoma, and the U.S. Census Bureau will be among those featured in this course. Designed
for both the beginning and advanced searcher, attendees will learn about resources for scientific reports, legislative documents,
statistical information, Native American documents, and other useful items. |
Wednesday April 22, 2009 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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