User Education for an Online Catalog: A Workshop Approach.

For more than six years, the Ohio State University Li braries has had public terminals available for searching its Library Control System (LCS), a former circulation sys tem that is evolving into an online catalog. Patron instruc tion in use of the system has expanded in parallel with the evolution of LCS, moving from informal printed instruc tions to a standardized one-hour workshop. A year of expe rience has shown the workshop to be a valuable part of the libraries' user-education program and a particularly suit able approach for online catalog instruction.