Search Scenario
The Search Scenario that follows will form the basis for the information requests and help guide you through the course.
Chris is an engineer, who works for TechTop, an engineering firm whose major projects deal with satellite communication. She has been in charge of doing most of the technical searching on Dialog for the entire firm. With business expanding and many engineers now familiar with online research, management has indicated that most of the engineers in the firm will need to be responsible for their own online searching. While Chris will continue to do most of the complex searches, she has been tasked with training other engineers on how to search Dialog for basic technical information.
To roll out this new idea, management calls a meeting and asks that Chris identify the "next step."
Here's what Chris has to say to her staff:
"As you all know, I have been doing most of the online technical research for the company for several years now. I got the answers from Dialog, an information databank, and now I want to share with you how you can get those same answers for yourself.
"To help you, I am putting together an Introduction to Searching DialogWeb as an online course that you can run through our Intranet. I want you to take just a half-hour or so a day and review the lessons and practices. It should only take you about 4-5 hours to complete everything. By the end of the course, you should be capable of doing your own basic technical research. Throughout the course, I will get requests for information, and then take you step-by-step through the process I would go through to answer the requests.
"I think you will find the process interesting. The course materials should be available on the Intranet tomorrow."
