Class goals
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§Examine the Alumni Medical Library’s multi-functional website
§Improve  information retrieval skills using the WWW
§Practice search strategies using general search engines, web directories, and meta-search engines
§Use established ‘virtual library’ collections as an alternative strategy for locating resources on the WWW
§Evaluate Web sites for validity, source, content, and currency of information
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These goals are quite broad.  The main point to remember today is, however, that librarians must consider ways to integrate the use of the Internet as a resource for themselves and for their patrons.  As you can imagine, this integration poses a number of challenges and issues:
user education
computer literacy & access to machines
collection development
budgeting
Web site development & maintenance
etc.