TRAINING ON INFORMATION SEARCHING SKILLS FOR ALL STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS

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September 13, 10:00 am

Dear All,

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The Director, Library & Information Services has organized an online training onย INFORMATION RESOURCES SEARCHING SKILLSย scheduled onย Wednesday, 13thย September 2023.

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Searching skills assist researchers to use search terms in finding required information and information resources from search engines, library catalogue and the online databases. The skill helps the researcher obtain more relevant and specific information results for their research, hence saving time. Some of the search strategies that will be presented include Boolean Logic, parenthesis, truncation, wildcards and phrase searching among others. The main objective of the training will be to guideย students and researchers on how to use information search strategies to achieve good search results for literature research.ย  ย 

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The following table provides the link to the training scheduled onย 13thย September 2023.ย 

10:00 am -ย 12:00 pm

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2e1feabb-ef39-410d-a005-f9d1bed96ce2@6e2cc058-79af-4df8-92e6-ee6e0d1dea3e

For those who will not be able to attend the training, we will provide a link to the recorded session on the Library website via the following link -ย https://uonlibrary.uonbi.ac.ke/basic-page/library-guides-presentations.ย 

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Please do not hesitate to contact the Department through the Library Helpdesk link below for further inquiries:ย https://uonlibrary.uonbi.ac.ke/library-helpdesk

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Kind regards,

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John A. O. Orindi, MCIPR

Director of Corporate Affairs

Office of the Vice-Chancellor

University of Nairobi

P.O Box 30197-00100

Nairobi, Kenya

Tel:ย ย ย  ย  ย  +254 20491 3195

Office:ย ย ย  +254 20491 3193

Email:ย ย ย ย ย pr@uonbi.ac.ke

Website:ย www.uonbi.ac.ke

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