ICML 2009: Continuing Education: Track it down on the Web! - Tools to do it for the Biomedical Librarian

Presenter/s: Dr. Friedhelm Rump, the Director of the School of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover Germany. See the Library or virtual library websites.

Biography: Friedhelm Rump holds a diploma (1973) and a PhD (1978) in Geochemistry from Goettingen University. He undertook his library training at Goettingen University Library and Fachhochschule fuer Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen in Koeln (1980 -1982). He has held positions at the Goettingen University Library, the Municipal Archives of Goettingen and Hohenheim University, Stuttgart. Since 1990 he has been library director at the Veterinary University of Hannover. He has held a number of honorary positions: Chairman of the examination board for Library Assistant Trainees of Lower Saxony, Treasurer of the European Veterinary Libraries Group, Council member for the implementation of an automated library network in 7 German States, Chairman of the Council of Library Affairs to the Lower Saxonian Minister of Science and Culture, Member of the editorial board of the EVLG-Newsletter, Spokesman of the European Veterinary Libraries Group, and German representative to the council of EAHIL.

Session:There is more on the Internet for the biomedical librarian than is generally assumed – and it is free. This course will introduce the tools to track down resources that are not found with the general search engines. It will show ways to make searching effective, findings more complete, and at the same time being less time consuming.

The coverage will include:

• Special Search engines
• Enhancements of search engines (Addons etc)
• Customization of search engines and tools
• Refined search strategies
• Free databases
• Other free unique resources

The skills to be presented require no PC expertise. The Internet will be closely monitored until shortly before course time, so the most recent developments can be incorporated into the course. The course contents will be given to the participants on a CD-ROM in HTML-format.

Documents relating to this course can be found here.