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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 changes or updates.
Electronic Resources on the DOI Library Website
NEW -- Every third Thursday of the month, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
(January 19, February 16, March 15, April 19, May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20, October 18, November 15, December 20, 2012)
Please join the DOI Library Staff for a new, regular training series teaching patrons about the many electronic and online resources available through the DOI Library's website. Every third Thursday of the month from 1 to 2 pm, the Library staff will review facets of the website, including features and basic search techniques for online databases available to DOI employees at their desktops. Databases such as HeinOnline, Westlaw, JSTOR, LexisNexis Congressional, and ProQuest National Newspapers will be examined at the request of attendees. The Reference Staff will also be available to answer other specific online research related questions you may have. |
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Readex’s U.S. Congressional Serial Set–Digital Edition: Introduction and New Features
Perhaps the single most important series of American government publications, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set is an incomparably rich, largely untapped collection of primary source material on the people, issues and events of American history and politics. Readex's digital edition of this national treasure, the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, could be the most accurate and complete replica available. Presenting every publication from the 15th Congress through the 103rd Congress, including items missing from other editions, the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set contains over 415,000 individual documents in more than 14,000 volumes. This class will introduce attendees to this valuable online resource and provide them with helpful hints for searching the collection. This program will be conducted by a Readex trainer.
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Wednesday,
January 18, 2012
2:00 pm–4:00 pm |
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DOI Library Tour
Please join us for a tour of the many resources of the Department of the Interior Library. Included in the tour will be a description of many legal and legislative resources on Deck 4 of the Library, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, U.S. Statutes at Large, and federal case reporters. Also included will be a look at the Library’s collection of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, our collection of Native American reports and publications, first edition materials written about the American Civil War, as well as our Rare Book Collection. Our tour guide, DOI Law Librarian Maureen Booth, will also talk about the Library’s history and the special architectural and ornamental features that are part of its unique look. This tour will be valuable for anyone intending to do research at the DOI Library.
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Wednesday,
February 1, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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Advanced Legal Research on Lexis
This program builds on the techniques presented in the “LexisNexis: Introduction and New Features” class, emphasizing time-efficient and cost-effective searching. Legal researchers attending the class will be shown new methods that can be used to obtain supporting caselaw, statutes, law review and newspaper articles, as well as federal and state administrative materials. Participants will learn about advanced search techniques to make their research more efficient and hear about recently introduced services. The class will also cover choosing appropriate search types, Boolean operators and search syntax, and refining search results with limiters and search edit options. Instruction includes general search construction as well as techniques and options unique to the LexisNexis platform. Attendees will discover new tools to help them keep track of their research and monitor developing areas of law. This program will be conducted by a LexisNexis trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Tuesday,
February 14, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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Federal Legislative History Research Using Library Resources
In order to find the legislative intent of a bill or public law, researchers need to compile reports, testimony, debate, and other materials related to that piece of legislation to find keys as to what Congress hoped to accomplish by passing the bill. The final compilation of all these materials provides the researcher with a "legislative history" of the bill or law in question and hopefully will answer the question of what Congress intended with this legislation. Attendees will learn how to use print and electronic resources available in the DOI Library to conduct legislative history research. Included will be a look at how to put together a legislative history using Library resources such as the Congressional Information Service indexes, U.S. Congressional Serial Set (print and online editions), Congressional Record, HeinOnline, and the LexisNexis Congressional Hearings and Research Digital Collections. This program will be conducted by Reference Librarian Jennifer Klang.
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Wednesday,
February 29, 2012
10:00 am-12:00 pm |
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ProQuest National Newspapers: Introduction and New Features
ProQuest's National Newspapers Collection provides the Department of the Interior with online access to the most respected national and regional newspapers from across the U.S. The titles in ProQuest National Newspapers offer researchers thorough coverage of local, national, and international events with journalistic balance and perspective. Attendees will learn how to browse and search through ProQuest's collection of full-text articles from the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post dating back to the 1980's, using helpful browsing and searching tips offered by a ProQuest trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Tuesday,
March 13, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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Legislative History Research Using Westlaw
Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. Attendees to this training program will learn how to use the Westlaw legal and legislative databases to find materials needed to complete a legislative history. These include materials like Congressional debate in the Congressional Record, House and Senate Reports, Presidential Documents, and Congressional Hearings, all used to find the intent behind a piece of legislation. This class will be taught by a Westlaw representative.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Wednesday,
March 28, 2012
10:00 am-12:00 pm |
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The National Technical Reports Library: Introduction and New Features
The National Technical Information Service's National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) offers online access to hundreds of thousands of technical reports collected by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) from a wide variety of federal government agencies over the past 60 years. The NTRL currently offers searchable access to 2.5 million official, federal government scientific and technical reports, with over 600,000 of these available in full-text as PDF files. Attendees will learn how to effectively search through this database to locate official government reports, including many published by Interior Department bureaus and offices. This program will be conducted by a National Technical Information Service trainer.
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Tuesday,
April 10, 2012 –
10:00 am-12:00 pm |
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Compiling a Federal Legislative History: A Step-by-Step Example for Beginners
In order to find the legislative intent of a bill or public law, researchers need to compile reports, testimony, debate, and other materials related to that piece of legislation to find keys as to what Congress hoped to accomplish by passing the bill. The final compilation of all these materials provides the researcher with a "legislative history" of the bill or law in question and hopefully will answer the question of what Congress intended with this legislation. Those inexperienced with legal research in general but interested in learning the process involved in compiling a 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 and Reference Librarian Shyamalika Ghoshal.
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Wednesday,
April 25, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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LexisNexis: Introduction and New Features
LexisNexis is one of the leading global providers of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news, and business sources. This includes current United States statutes and laws and a large volume of published case opinions dating from the 1770's to the present, as well as available published and unpublished case opinions from 1980 to date. Attendees will be taught basic search techniques used to obtain supporting caselaw, statutes, law review and newspaper articles, as well as federal and state administrative materials. They will also be shown newly implemented features on this comprehensive database. This program will be conducted by a LexisNexis trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Wednesday,
May 9, 2012
10:00 am-12:00 pm |
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EBSCOHost Online Databases: Introduction and New Features
EBSCO’s online databases provide access to thousands of journals and reference sources in a wide variety of subject areas. EBSCO's leading online full text databases offer access to full text articles from peer-reviewed journals published by many of the world's most prestigious publishers. These databases offer a convenient way for users to search for abstracts and full text articles from a large collection of publications in one easy process. EBSCOHost is available to DOI employees nationwide through the Library’s website (http://library.doi.gov) and includes access to their Academic Search Premier, Environment Complete, Science & Technology, GreenFile, MasterFile Premier, and Legal Collection databases. Attendees will learn how to utilize EBSCO’s search platform to peruse through these databases and find articles, papers, reports, and other needed research materials. This program will be conducted by an EBSCO trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Wednesday,
May 30, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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Searching Through the Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Resources on the Internet
It has been said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean; a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is below the surface and therefore missed. Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the “Invisible” or “Deep” Web – those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The Invisible Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web. This class will examine the type of information available on the mysterious "Invisible Web," how to access it, and why it is important. Learn why some information is inaccessible to web search engines and what might be overlooked in researching the Internet. Search techniques and recommended sources will also be covered. This program will be conducted by Reference Librarian Jennifer Klang.
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Wednesday,
June 6, 2012
10:00 am-12:00 pm |
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Academic OneFile: Introduction and New Features
Academic OneFile is one the premier sources for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is comprehensive in its coverage of a variety of fields. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Attendees to this program will learn about the holdings of this database and how to effectively search through its contents to find needed information. They will also learn how to peruse through their full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995 as well as podcasts and transcripts for NPR, CNN, and the CBC. This program will be taught by a Gale/Cengage trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Wednesday,
June 20, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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Advanced Legal Research on Westlaw
Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of West, a part of Thomson Reuters. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. Attendees will learn how to take research skills learned in introductory Westlaw courses to the next level. Learn how to find cases by attorney or judge's name, date, and jurisdiction. Explore statutory materials and learn how to combine the best of book and online research with Westlaw's online Table of Contents. Delve into KeyCite's unique features that allow researchers to fine-tune their result by legal issue, jurisdiction, and other selected criteria. And learn how to personalize Westlaw to meet your unique research needs. This program will be conducted by a Westlaw trainer.
Please Note: This class is also being offered to remote users as a simultaneous online webinar via WebEx. Please contact the DOI Library by e-mail at library@nbc.gov for information on how to register for WebEx access to the class.
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Thursday,
July 5, 2012
2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
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