* With apologies for cross posting* BMA Library Online Searching Course For those who have access to the BMA MEDLINE Plus Service, an opportunity to improve your searching skills. The course will concentrate upon the underlying structure of the MEDLINE database, basic skills involved in formulating a search question & strategy and provide an overview of the primary basic and advanced features of our OVID MEDLINE Plus system. programme: 10:00 Registration (tea / coffee) 10:10 Welcome 10:15 The MEDLINE database 10:45 Focusing Your Question & formulating a search strategy 11.15 Tea / coffee 11:30 Basic search options 12:15 Basic search options - practical session 13:00 Lunch - will be provided in the Members Dining Room 14:00 Advanced search options 14:45 Advanced search options - practical session 15:30 Tea / coffee 15:45 Workshop "your questions answered" 16:00 Close course leaders: Jane Rowlands, Head of Library Development Clare Aitken, Sub-Librarian, Development Michelle Crate, Assistant Librarian, Computer Search Services Cost £125.00 + VAT Sterling (personal members), £250.00 + VAT Sterling (non-members). Will include a copy of "The Online Searchers Companion" by William H Forrester & Jane L Rowlands, Library Association Publishing, 2000. You will be invoiced for the cost of the course once your place has been confirmed. 1 week notice of cancellation is required for course fee refund. * PGEA & CME approval requested. BMA Ref: 160-900-130 VAT No. GB 674 738491 For further information and to make a booking please visit our web site: http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/LIBOnlineSearchingCourses or contact Jane Rowlands Tel: 0207 383 6737 Fax: 0207 388 2544 email: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager ([log in to unmask]) www.bma.org.uk **********************************************************************